A bass rises to take an insect as the sun goes down over the coast foothills. It is late summer, so the first fallen leaves are slowly drifting downriver. The puffy low clouds reflect off the water in tones of blue and orange.
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. No further enhancement was necessary.
Ash Creek Images
Photographs of the West by Doug Gorsline
A Bass Rises as the Sun Sets in the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge.
