In May I took my second trip to the Palouse, this one with Alan Caddey, and some of the results are here. Enroute I stopped in Seattle to make more photos of the Experience Music Project, which I also photographed several years ago. It is still wonderful. I also made some shots of the Seattle Library, which is quite interesting. While in the Palouse I passed by the Willard Car Farm, and was able to get permission to shoot junk cars there. Here I show a few of the ones that have been added to my Junk Car album and my talk, Rust, Rubbish, and Reflections, that I will be giving a the PSA Conference in Portland in September.
We were on Steptoe Butte in lousy weather and suddenly this appeared. I made five exposures and used HDR to combine them.
This is a typical view from Steptoe Butte but our leader, Alan Caddey, had a pet place with lupines and sunflowers to use as a foreground.
I had heard that the Seattle Library was a good subject for photography so I made a point of going there. One of its interesting attributes is reflections from it.
The Experience Music Project in Seattle, designed by Frank Gehry, is a wonderful subject for photographers. There is one place where two curved walls come together over an entrance. I waited until the angle of the sun was just right and then made five shots and used HDR to combine them.
Part of the Experience Music Project with a bit of the Space Needle in the background.
I've spent a lot of effort trying to get something I could handle using the blue parts of the Experience Music Project and I think this one is successful.
Steptoe Butte is the mecca for photographers in the Palouse - many of the best shots are made from there. But here is a view of the Butte from below.
Made on a road that Alan Caddey found somewhere not too far from Moscow Idaho. We went to the same place a 4 AM two mornings in a row because the overcast was so bad the first day. But I think it was worth it. It did, however, require a lot of work in Photoshop to make the trees stand out from the background.
