sunflowers, sauvie island

Lee and I made our annual trek over to Sauvie Island today, to hike around a bit, soak up the fall atmosphere, and to grab the first pumpkins of autumn. We ended up, as we always do, at Kruger Farms, which is a lovely farm stand stocked with local veggies, pick your own flowers (like these sunflowers), a beer truck (Guided by Porches brewery), and good grub. (The farm stand is across the street from this inlet, which I photographed in January.)

The bad news was that it was too early for the corn maze, but I’ll take that over the crowds that will descend upon this poor island starting next week.

dalton point

I went back to Dalton Point last night. Unfortunately, by the time I got there, the interesting cloud formations had dissipated, and the horizon got pretty hazy.

Luckily, there was a very nice moonset as well, so I set the camera and tripod up, and worked through a number of different shots and setups. This one is a composite HDR image (done in Photoshop) of three images after the sun went down. I have a couple of other ones I’m working on, but I like this one best (at least for now).