Oregon Photography Safari - June, 2006

Our final photography field location was in theWashington Park Rose Garden, in Portland, Oregon.

Our photography group met and parted in the city of Portland. Before saying our goodbyes, we made a trip on our final morning to the beautiful Moltnomah Falls, east of town in the Columbia River Gorge.

Stacked on the truck.

Sepia-toned

The little store in Remote, Oregon, nestled in the coastal mountains of Oregon, has been closed for business since 1992. It's become a museum, storing several cultural icons of bygone eras.

Wild boar's head mounted on a wall in Riverton, Oregon.

Photographed at an abandoned meat packing plant in Bandon, Oregon.

An rusting saw waits for its next victim at the abandoned meat packing plant in Bandon, Oregon.

A rotting set of encyclopedias, old photographs, a jumbled room - all speak to a different way people looked at the world and themselves (Bandon, Oregon).

We stopped at a fruit stand which also featured a cornucopia of kistchy art.

A statue stands in colorful surroundings outside the wonderful Tsunami Art Gallery in Gardiner, Oregon.

A llupine pod and its seeds are backlit along the Oregon coast, at the edge of the sand dunes.

Miles and miles of dunes stretch between the towns of Florence and North Bend, Oregon.

Even dull, gray concrete can turn to warm colors at the end of the day with the sun at the correct angle.

The setting sun makes it seem the bridge over the McKenzie River in the little town of Florence, Oregon.

These sea lions made their home on the rocks, below Highway One and south of the Hecta Head Lighthouse.

This sea monster lies in wait at the tacky, but fun Aquarium City, in Newport, Oregon.

Off the pier in Newport, Oregon

On the dock at the Newport Harbor

At the Newport Harbor

At the Oregon Coast Aquarium, in Newport, Oregon.

A series of acrylic tunnels, surrounded by several feet of sea water, take visitors at the Oregon Coast Aquarium "beneath" the sea.

The Otter Crest Inn sits perched on a bluff overlooking an expanse of tide pools.

Sea anenomes and sea stars lie in a tide pool near the Otter Crest Inn.

An abandoned barn poses for our photography group, in Tillamook, Oregon.

We photographed the owner of a dairy ranch and his old barn. His cows provide the ingrediants of the famed Tillamook Cheese, processed a few miles away at the Tillamook Cheese Factory.

The reflection on the surface of the glass makes it a bit difficult to decipher what's inside and what's out of this empty room in Wheeler, Oregon.

Several railroad cars sit abandoned on the tracks in Wheeler, Oregon. This one reflects the surrounding greenery.

Hug Point State park lies south of Cannon Beach, Oregon. Our photography group arrived at low tide, making it easy to approach this waterfall.

The "haystacks" at Cannon Beach are visible from Ecola State Park, Oregon.

These barnacles are attched to the side of the Peter Iredale, a 1923 wreck on the Oregon Coast, near Astoria.

Photographed near the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.

Photographed in Astoria, Oregon.

Photographed near the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.