Don Auderer

I’m starting this thread to consolidate information on night photography for the upcoming trip to the Palouse in Washington.  It will include links to relevant sites and specific information about the planned trip. These are just my ramblings and a

I am working on a new book, The Art and Craft of Photography II.   It will contain photographs made in 2013-2015.  Right now it is incomplete but here are images I have selected so far.

I took a walk this morning and photographed Bank Street alley.  The murals are quickly being replaced with graffiti.

This was my first trip out with my new Fuji x100s camera.  It will be a great travel camera and is

Today I photographed a young Cooper’s Hawk in the park near my home.  He was in a tree preening his feathers and allowed many close shots.  I used a 200 mm lens with a 2x extender to grab these shots.

I am considering entering these photos in the Audubon Photo Contest.

Comments are welcome.

The Bobby Socks trees are dead Lodgepole Pines near hydrothermal areas and look as if they are wearing “bobby socks”. The dead trees soak up the mineral laden water and when the water evaporates, the minerals are left behind, turning

The peculiar and picturesque silt dunes which characterize the Palouse Prairie were formed during the ice age.  Blown in from the glacial outwash plains to the west and south, the Palouse hills consist of more or less random humps and

This image was made in Yellowstone National Park.  The tree had been killed by the intrusion of hot mineral waters coming from Mammoth Hot Springs.   The trees are slow to decay and may stand for years after dying.

While photographing in the Columbia Gorge we had three days of rain.  There were times when we couldn’t keep the cameras dry.  During the three days of shooting in rain, I had one incident that scared me.  My camera quit