A landscape photographer's tour

Keith's travels in the Pacific Northwest - September-October 2007

Three years ago, Keith took his then fairly new Canon 1Ds on a driving tour round the Rockies in the USA. This photo-diary covers a driving trip starting at Seattle, Washington in September/October 2007. There are also photo-journals on this site covering an earlier trip to some of the area, but starting at San Francisco. There is also an article on a trip to Colorado

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The weather isn't at its best, but I do enjoy driving along the Pacific coast. These pages will have a few of my pictures along the way. I'm not on my own this time so I'll probably not be keeping quite the detailed notes I usually do... :-)

It's a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip up the Pacific coast to photograph some of the scenery. If you've any questions about the hotels/inns/motels where I stayed, then please do feel free to drop me a line.

	Daily pages 27th September: UK to Seattle 28th September: Into Oregon 29th September: Cannon Beach 30th September: Further South 1st October: Three Capes 2nd October: To Florence 3rd October: quiet day... 4th October: South to Bandon 5th October: On the beach 6th October: Bandon to Bend 7th October: Bend to Seattle 8th October: Around Seattle 9th October: Around Seattle
What's the Washington weather like? What's the Oregon weather like?	National Weather Service radar (Pacific Northwest) What are the roads like? (WA)

Travelling from Bend, Oregon to Seattle Washington

Here's the motel, as we make an early getaway...

leaving motel at Bend, Oregon

As you head north up US97, there is a wide plateau, where there really isn't a lot to see, although not a bad drive

open space - driving north on US97 in Oregon

big skies...

big oregon sky

and the odd tree (you can see it from the in car shot above)

wind pump and tree

crossing the Columbia river (another big bridge)

bridge over columbia river

Just over the bridge is a large fruit stand - so we stocked up with plums and peaches

columbia river fruit stand

This view gives the context for the bridge- note the rather long train (certainly over half a mile long)

columbia river

The photo above was taken at Stonehenge, or at least the war memorial built as a copy

stonehenge, washington state, by the columbia river

The view from inside

stonehenge, washington

They do a lot of fruit in this part of Washington - and frequently sell it alongside antiques

fruit and antiques, thorp, washington

Anyway, we got to Kirkland. We're staying at a friend of mine's for a few days, so here's a view of Seattle in the distance, or at least the glow it throws up onto the clouds.

seattle sky glow

Since there hasn't been so many food shots, here's the ribs I sampled that evening in Bellvue (with Al in the background)

ribs - dining in bellvue, washington

And the range of Cheesecake available for deserts

cheesecake, bellvue, washington

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