Here is a photograph near The Dalles from the first day. Brooks stopped to make another photograph and I got out to look around. This seems like a nondescript intersection with a pair of signs. The sign on the left notifies of an internet cable buried beneath. The other sign is a historical marker showing the Oregon trail followed the same path. I thought it was kind of interesting to see those two important historical markers side by side.
With the overcast sky, there were no real shadows or highlights so we had to work for subjects to photograph. We started looking and came up with grasses growing through the columnar basalt along the edge of the road. While the photograph looks pretty good in color, it will require a lot of photoshop to get this to what I want this to look like.
Finally, something happened for just a few minutes when we were in the right place at this time. It’s not as good as what we did yesterday, but landscape photography is a crap shoot. If you’re only going to be out there for a few days at a time, it’s a matter of luck and percentages whether or not the weather will be to your advantage and you’re in the right place at the right time.
Yesterday we were the bat, today we were the ball. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
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