Photo Geek Squad

Today we were up at the crack of dawn... Well, actually we were driving in the dark to get to this location. It is Trillium Lake south of Mt Hood. As you can gather from the image, the lake is absolutely still. After we had been there for a while it took a few ducks to get out on the water to finally break the calm. There are a number of fires in around the Mt Hood area and it is causing a definite haze area to deal with. Even with a polarizer, it reduces but does not get rid of the haze. Some things we just have to get along with.

There were two locations that we shot at today. The other was a place called Zig Zag Falls on, what would you expect, the Zig Zag River. We wanted to visit a couple of falls but this was the only one where the hiking trail was open. The forestry service has closed a number of the falls due to the high fire risk. At the end of the road there was a trail that went about 3/4 mile meandering through, up, over, and around the wooded area to get to the falls.

This was the first really good water I have been able to shoot since I got the Canon 40D and it was magnificent. There were eight of us total but only two of my brothers-in-law were shooting D-SLR's

It was a blast for all three of us as neither of us have had an opportunity to just roam around with another photog and just geek over the fun in photography.

I may get a post out over the weekend but I would not count on it.

Take care... Doug