This has been a pretty nice autumn. First, I got to see Iceland in the fall, which was awesome. And then I returned to Silver Falls State Park in Oregon for the fall color and the waterfalls. And even though the water levels were severely lower than last year, the fall color was better and the falls are still amazing.
Silver Falls is the gem of Oregon State Parks, and rightly show. I've said it before, this could be a national park. If you like waterfalls, take a trip to Silver Falls. It's small enough that you could photograph it in a day or two. But in the fall, you might want to take a little more time and visit each of really good falls at different times of day.
Take a look at some of what we found this year:
After Silver Falls I went to the Palouse for a short exploratory tour. What struck me is that it was like seeing the Palouse again for the first time. Everything seemed new, even the extremely familiar view from Steptoe Butte was new. The familiar shapes were there, but there were additional patterns woven into the fields, probably left over from the harvest. And the colors! I love earth tones and the Palouse in the autumn is chock full of earth tones from dry wheat to multiple shades of chocolate. There were even a few smatterings of green thrown in. It was truly a pleasant surprise for me; I'd been thinking I'd have to shoot with black and white in mind, but I ended up loving the colors.
I'll be going back next October. That tour will be posted on my workshops site soon in case you're want to see the Palouse in a completely different way. But enough talking about it, take a look:
