A visit to Portland Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Columbia River Gorge would not be complete without a photograph of the Portland skyline at night. I shot this on Friday evening just past dark from the Eastbank Esplanade. Flanking the Willamette River and between the Steel Bridge and the Hawthorne Bridge was a ideal spot to shoot from. Tripod mounted 2.5 sec at f/16.
The Willamette Valley is protected from Pacific storms on the west by the Coast Range. On the east the Cascade Range draws the boundary between the Willamette Valley’s misty, cool climate and the drier, more extreme climate of eastern Oregon. The often pernickety Willamette Valley climate is truly the Promised Land for my favorite Pinot Noir’s in America.
As autumn commences in the Columbia River Gorge, the colors are in fact quite impressive. The landscape is fast changing and the beautiful trees of green, yellow and red are everywhere. It’s somewhat like in the Judy Garland film, Wizard of Oz, when everything changes from black and white to vivid color.
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