We finished the areas we wanted to photograph on Thursday, so we had a free day on Friday. Based on our experience and a bit of a lark, we thought that we would travel a road that paralleled the Klickitat River. We have always had good luck following a river so that’s where we went.
We found the lower part of the Klickitat to have steep walls and quite turbulent. That did not stop the fisherman, both white and tribal from fishing. The tribal fisherman stood on wooden platforms and used long poled nets to catch steelehead and salmon. As one of the fishermen told us, “We’ve been doing it this way for ten thousand years and it works pretty good.”
We followed the river for a while and then took off over the farmland for a change of pace and photographed because we thought we had lost the river.
We crested a hill and a beautiful valley opened up in front of us. It was absolutely beautiful, but the clouds blocked the light to the valley floor. We did what landscape photographers do. We parked and waited for the light to peek through the clouds. We talked, listened to mp3 files and waited and looked around. The wind was blowing at about forty miles an hour so getting out of the SUV was not a real good option. We waited for about two and a half hours until the clouds and light were just right for two or three compositions we identified. When the light and clouds positioned themselves to our liking we made some photographs…
This is the one we were waiting on…
That’s the way landscape photography goes some days. Sometimes it’s really easy and other times you just have to wait. And other days it rains. We’ve seen them all this week.
If you've been following the blog this week, I would love to invite you to continue stopping by and reading my postcards from the creative journey.
For those of you interested in the technical details, the following equipment was employed:
Panasonic G85 micro 4/3 camera
Panasonic 7-14 zoom lens
Panasonic 12-35 HD Zoom lens
Panasonic 35-100 HD Zoom lens
I have finally been able to do what I have wanted to do in processing image files away from home using a chromebook. I used f-stopper software to read my SD cards and display the images on my chromebook. I had to set my camera up to make both RAW and jpg files for each image because the free version of f stopper does not read RAW files. The f stopper software seamlessly integrates with Adobe Photoshop Express to allow editing of the jpg files. I used my chromebook to make the blog entries using both text and pictures.
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