The Tualatin River begins in the Coast Range west of Portland, Oregon and meanders through a partly rural, increasingly urban valley until it joins the Willamette River near West Linn, a few miles upstream from Portland.
This picture was taken from the Shamberg Bridge on Roy Rogers Road, just north of Sherwood, Oregon in the Tualatin National Wildlife Refuge. Since the time when I took this photo, this road has been straightened and converted to a high use, high speed arterial. In the interest of safety, I recommend not using it for a photo platform today.
The only filtration used on this photo was a graduated neutral density filter to balance the exposure difference between the bright sky in the top of the photo with the much darker reflection off the river at the bottom of the frame. The shot was made on Fuji Velvia film, which tends to saturate reds. No further enhancement was necessary.
Ash Creek Images
Photographs of the West by Doug Gorsline
An Exceptionally Vivid Sunset Reflects in the Tualatin River at Sherwood, Oregon.
