My favorite time in the Columbia Gorge is the fall.  The leaves turn there slightly before they do in Portland, and on the rare day when the rain lets up, I’m out there with one of my cameras.  This year, I will be heading out with my Deardorff 8×10, and some very large sheets of color film.  A friend from Salem will be accompanying, and with any luck we’ll get something good.

Update 4/24/20: That was 8 years ago, and what we did is lost to memory. I went through my negatives, and found some from the trip I mentioned above from October of 2012. I found only one 8×10 color negative. It was from Starvation Creek Falls.

©2000 Gary L. Quay

In the waters of Wahkeena Falls, Columbia Gorge, Oregon.

Camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Kodak E100VS

©2012 Gary L. Quay

Places like Starvation Creek Falls are where a view camera shines due to tilt and shift capabilites.  That said, it has issues, because of which I won’t putting it up for sale. The lens I took it with has trouble with fuzziness at the edges of the image circle because I dropped it right after I purchased it (at great expense). At least, I think that was the reason. There were black and white images that fared a little better. Stay tuned.

Camera: Deardorff 8×10
Lens: 165mm Schneider Angulon
Film: Kodak Portra 160 VC

Featured Image:

Bonneville Dam at Sunset, October 2012
Camera: Camera City View (by the Seneca Camera Co. of Rochester, NY.)
Lens: 180mm Caltar II, no filter.
Film: Arista.edu 100, stand developed in Agfa Rodinal 1:00 for 1 hour.