Today's Thursday, and that means that today is my last full day here in Portland
I'm not in Portland right now, but in Oregon. I had a really hard time choosing the place to go to today
There are so many places around here. It's almost overwhelming and
You are always wondering if you made the right decision. My first idea was to go to the coast today again
Actually, I left the hotel and I started driving in that direction
But then I changed my mind because it would have been a lot of driving again
I've been driving so much, like 600 miles in two days, and I came here instead. This place is called Silver Falls Park
It's kind of close to Salem, the capital of Oregon, and it's a cool park. There are like seven, eight, ten
pretty cool waterfalls
And I've been here only once because it's a pretty popular spot
Not during the week as you will see. So it's gonna be mostly about waterfalls of course and trees and whatnot
They're not my favorite subjects not because I don't like them
I actually love them, but I find them really hard and challenging to photograph
It's really hard for me... with a waterfall
I feel like there are only so many photos you can take of, or so many ways you can be creative with a waterfall.
You can't really change the angles too much and
There is not much you can do with the background because the waterfall is usually falling from you know a cliff so you have
The cliff as a background and it's something that you can't really change. We'll see what we can do here as I said they are
Not my favorite subjects because I struggle a lot, but I wanted to do something different today
I wanted to walk instead of driving. Let's get started
Okay, so I'm here setting up a long exposure of the waterfall
but instead of getting the whole thing I'm just focusing on the base, let me show you
Something like that so ideally the path
you see the path there behind the waterfall
Just a little bit of the river / creek. It's a little bit dark here even though
It's daylight now, but I'm gonna be using the ten-stop ND filter, so that will give me two a half minutes
Yeah, it started raining, so I headed back. Now I'm kind of tired
I'm all wet, my camera gear is all wet too, so I'm testing the weather proofing
but now I'm gonna just head back to the hotel and take a shower, change my clothes, enjoy a little bit of Portland too
Because I haven't had the time
I've been driving around, and just wait for tomorrow to visit other spots in Portland before taking the plane out of here