Posts tagged #photography

The most photographed lighthouse on the West Coast, built in 1894 above the Oregon Coast with a First Order Fresnel lens visible 21 miles at sea.

A 286-foot plunge waterfall in the Oregon Cascades near Willamette Pass — one of the tallest in the state, with a viewing deck, rim trail, and winter snowshoeing season.

A 20-mile canyon of hydrothermally altered rock in brilliant yellows, oranges, and reds, with the 308-foot Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River at its head.

Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming rises abruptly from the valley floor without foothills — the jagged Teton peaks just appear, reflected in glacial lakes, with wildlife grazing in the meadows below.

Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States and one of the most pristine — a collapsed volcano filled over millennia by snowmelt, producing a shade of blue that seems almost artificially saturated.

Arches National Park in southeastern Utah holds the world's highest concentration of natural stone arches — over 2,000 of them — in a landscape so otherworldly it barely feels like it belongs to this planet.

Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah holds the largest concentration of hoodoos on Earth — thousands of tall, narrow rock spires in shades of red, orange, and white that fill the amphitheater like a frozen crowd.

A two-tiered 113-foot waterfall framed by perfect columnar basalt in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest — one of the most photographed waterfalls in the Pacific Northwest.

A visit to Yosemite Valley, where Half Dome and El Capitan frame a landscape so dramatic it almost feels engineered, and the waterfalls are at their thunderous peak in late June.