Painted Hills - Central Oregon
Hello everyone! These are some images from a trip we took in 2015 to Central Oregon. This was one of our many journeys to the area to see if we wanted to move there. We decided to take the long way home and swing through Mitchell Oregon and The Painted Hills nearby. Needless to say it was well worth the extra time and distance to take in the breath taking views that were waiting for us.
The colorful layers show the different geological eras of this ancient flood plain. It is one of three units that belong to the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
These photos were taken by me with a Samsung Galaxy S5 Active with some Lightroom post processing.
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We followed the gravel road up to the first view point. This is a panorama I put together in Lightroom of the view looking east.
A couple views looking in a more westerly direction from the same view point.
A shot from the road as we ventured further into the monument.
Our next stop was going to be down by the reservoir for a short loop hike.
A shot of the trail and a look back down toward the reservoir. Some parts of the walk on this trail were like being on an alien planet. The different textures and colors were just amazing to see.
The last view as we descend down the trail back to the parking area.
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Unfortunately we were strapped for time and we didn't get to explore the monument as thoroughly as we would have liked. On the plus side, since we moved to Central Oregon we are now only a couple hours away from this magnificent place. A return trip is inevitable and I am looking forward to more exploration and taking more pictures with my DSLR. :)
Thanks for looking and enjoy your day!
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Thank you! I will look into this. :)
I have seen these hills before - they are beautiful and well worth spending any amount of time 😊 The panos are great - I like the second most.
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I think I may have used the first picture in a contest post last year sometime. Thought I would share more of the whole excursion. :)
When I was taking those 4 years ago I probably wasn't thinking about panos. I tried to make some larger ones but I didn't have the key in between shots. :)
Maybe, but I cannot remember. Anyway, these mountains look so cool 👍🙂
I should take more panos too, but most times I don't think ;)
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I had to remind myself to be more cognizant of taking shots for a pano or I would forget also. I have been experimenting with zoomed in shots, taking a couple rows of images and then creating a pano. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much. lol.
So, I'm not alone ;) lol
I have never tried to shoot a multi row pano, but maybe next time if I don't forget about shooting a normal panorama I could think of trying such a pano too ;)
But I can imagine, that shooting such a pano is not as easy as a one row panorama.
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I've been doing the multi row by hand (no tripod). Some times I get lost trying to overlap both the sides and bottom. lol.
I can imagine, that's the hard part when doing hand held multi row panos: staying horizontally and overlap the sides as well as the bottoms/tops of the photos. I think, I'll really have to try one, but we have had really bad weather this week. The rain has stopped for a few hours today, but in the late afternoon it will start to rain and snow again. Many roads are closed already...
I wish you a great weekend @oldmans 🙂
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