I am honored that my Image “Along the Trail, Silver Falls Park” was awarded First Place at this year’s Oregon Society of Artists Photography Showcase. This year the show included 95 outstanding images by photographers of all genres from throughout the greater Portland region.
This image was made on an October afternoon as I was hiking along the trail between Twin Falls and North Falls in Silver Falls State Park. As I stopped and turned around to look down the canyon, I noticed the unique forest-filtered light coming in from the south. I quickly framed up this hand-held composition dominated by an old maple tree with its sunlit leaves and moss-covered branches and trunk.