Part of my shoot from yesterday

So Vernonia was cooler than expected. Their city park has an abandoned cedar mill in it with lots of cool bent metal and graffiti art. I need to spend another day shooting out there. I need to stay for a while to hit better lighting conditions. I just hadn't planned on being there so long. I am cool with going back, though. Hitting it when the trees have leaves again and the bracken and moss green up more will be awesome.

This was my first (*cough*successfully*cough*) photography outing as part of my project to Map Complete Oregon. I drove a section of Route 47. It's possible I thought I was hitting all of 47. 47 follows 26 for a long way and I didn't see the southern half of the route on my map. Oops.

Part of the drive was very nice. I passed trails, towns, a broken railroad trestle.



North of Vernonia was less scenic. There were clearcuts with annoying ':) Of course it's been replanted :)' signs. The road was narrow and sagging in areas from soil erosion due to clearcuts.

( More pictures. Something with the 500px embedding is making there be more space than I'd like between pics, make sure to scroll to the end to see them all. )