Panorama Point County Park

• Frederick Douglass.

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During our first visit to the beautiful state of Oregon, almost as soon as we reached the outskirts of Portland, we realized that Mt Hood is going to dominate a lot of our shots. While planning, we actually hadn’t thought much about the mountain and most of our hikes and days were planned around Columbia River Gorge and its stunning waterfalls. We only had trillium lake as a view point for Mt Hood

So we made some impromptu changes to our itinerary and searched for some viewpoints to get some good shots of the most picturesque mountain that I have ever seen. Two notable spots came up, one was Lost lake campground and the other was some roads in Hood River Valley that led to Panorama Point. This shot was taken at Panorama Point park which has an amazing panorama view of the Mt Hood and the rolling hills at its base. This shot was taken just as the first rays of light warmed up the south west slopes of Mt Hood. This was before more light began to spread in from behind me and started to light the whole valley in golden light. I think I like the way this shot shows the effect of first light of golden hour contrasts with the cooler blue hour tones.

• Abraham Lincoln.

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Actually I think I skipped the order. The day we left to Palouse falls we started out by shooting the sunrise at Hood River Valley capturing the beautiful light as it hit Mt hood with the beautiful valleys in the foreground. We went to a lavender farm the day before on my wife’s request and we happened across this vista park which provides a stunning view of the Mt Hood.

I used this great app called the photographer’s ephemeris and realized this was an amazing sunrise location. As usual we were a bit late but the sky was pretty cloudy and didn’t have much pre dawn color. But we got to see a great sunset and the amazing hood river valley before starting off to Palouse.