Tag: Landscape
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Oregon Eclectica
This week’s post will wrap up this mini-series from Tillamook County, Oregon, and its coastline. I don’t have another visit on the calendar yet, but as it is one of my wife’s favorite places, I’m sure I’ll be back. This is good, because I have barely scratched the surface here. This post presents three pairs…
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Tillamook County Woodlands
Part of what makes Tillamook County nice from a photographic standpoint is the diversity of subject matter. You can’t know from looking at it, but the image above was within 20 yards of a seaside cliff. As is typical for the Pacific Northwest, the persistent wetness results in lots of moss covering everything that stands…
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Tillamook Coast
Last week’s post showed nothing but views to the west from our favorite getaway house in Oceanside, Oregon. From that same deck, the image above looks south along the Tillamook County coast towards Cape Lookout. The changeable weather in late fall and winter is definitely the photographer’s friend here, because so many things can happen…
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
This week’s post is a little random. After my long series on Japan, I have a lot of catching up to do with my images, both in terms of editing and blogging. For this post, I decided to share an assortment of images from the city I live in, Castle Pines. No one of these…
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Golden Satay
Cherry Creek State Park, Aurora, Colorado. April 2026.
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Shosenkyo Gorge
My last full day in Japan was spent in the city of Kofu in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, and my daughter was back to work that day so I was on my own. I decided to take a 40-minute bus ride out to Shosenkyo Gorge. I knew that the bus left from bus stand…
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Senga Spray
Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. November 2025.
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Stormclouds over Aomori
As I mentioned in the previous post, Aomori Prefecture is the northernmost prefecture on Japan’s main island of Honshu. The city of Aomori itself averages 26 feet of snow annually, more than any city in the world. I visited in November, and December–February turned out to be one of the snowiest in decades. It would…
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Autumn in Morioka
Morioka is a little over 300 miles north of Tokyo. My daughter and I only ended up staying there because we had a one-night gap to fill between our hotel in Tokyo and our hotel in Aomori even further north. So, it was essentially a layover in our shinkansen (bullet train) journey and we spent…
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Kamakura Temples
Kamakura is a pretty city in Kanagawa prefecture south of Tokyo. It has some notable temples, including Hasedera and Kotoku-in. All but one of the images in this post were taken on the grounds of the former. The original Hasedera temple dates back to the 8th century, although the building above has been rebuilt more…