Articles discussing the Pacific Northwest in the US.
A few weeks ago I decided to take a short trip to Mount Rainier. The last time I was in the park was in 2012, but now that I live about three hours away [...]
Reflection Lake at Mount Rainier National Park. © Nicole S. Young — nicolesy.com As I write this, I'm sitting in my hotel room, plotting my sunset adventure for my last [...]
Gorton Creek (© Nicole S. Young — nicolesy.com) This past weekend I went to Gorton Creek with an awesome group of photographer friends. Nick Wrzesinski, the amazing bearded man from SmugMug, [...]
Yesterday, Brian and I decided to get in the car and drive out to a waterfall. It's been a while since I have done any landscape photography here in the Pacific Northwest, and let [...]
Just a few weeks ago, I got up at the crack of dawn and went to Trillium Lake with a few other photographers, intent on photographing the sunrise. Soon after we got there, we [...]
Latourell Falls, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon (© Nicole S. Young — nicolesy.com) The end (of summer) is near ... thank goodness! This has been an interesting summer. Brian and I [...]
One Year in California A little over a year ago, Brian and I moved to the Silicon Valley after Brian got a new job at Google. It was a big change for [...]
https://youtu.be/HJ1n5mQe11Y Got 50 seconds? I put this video together from images I photographed at Kerry Park last night before and after sunset (sunset was at 8:18 pm). I wanted to show a [...]
The supermoon in Seattle. © 2012 Nicole S. YoungCanon 5DMkIII, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens, f/8 at ISO 200Exposure blend of three images (30 sec, 4 sec and 1/20 sec) [...]
Canon 5DMkIII, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens, Lee Big-Stopper filter, 129 sec at f/11, ISO 200 Sometimes a scene is obvious ... we can view it with our naked eyes [...]
Canon 5DMkIII, Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II lens, Lee Big-Stopper filter, 40 sec at f/11, ISO 800 I was in Portland most of last week and while in town I [...]
Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens, 20 sec at f/16, ISO 100 I had a nice, early morning today. I got up before the sunrise to meet [...]