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Photos from the Road: Views from Steptoe Butte

by hankinslawrenceimages | Aug 19, 2015 | Photo Locations, Washington

Last month I spent a fantastic week photographing in the Palouse region of Washington State. I shared a number of photos on my FB profile during the trip – and just realized I’d never shared them here on my blog.

The Palouse is a wheat growing region in eastern Washington, south of Spokane. If you’ve seen photos of wheat fields in Washington that seem to go on forever – chances are they were taken in the Palouse. While the terrain there is slightly hilly, one place – Steptoe Butte – provides an amazing place to take photos looking out across the fields from above. Steptoe Butte is a 3612 foot tall quartzite butte with 360 degree views of the surrounding fields. I spent a week in the town of Pullman exploring the Palouse – and visited Steptoe Butte at least 8 times during the week.

Here are some of my favorite photos from Steptoe Butte

View from Steptoe Butte © 2015 Patty Hankins

I’ll share some of my other photos from the Palouse soon

Roses at Manito Gardens Park in Spokane, Washington

by hankinslawrenceimages | Aug 5, 2015 | Flowers, Rosaceae Family, Washington

On my last morning in Washington I spent a few hours at the Manito Park Gardens in Spokane (by now – you know if I’m travelling somewhere I’m going to look for a botanical garden to photograph!). One of the highlights of the gardens was the rose garden. Not only was it full of beautiful roses – but most of them were varieties I wasn’t familiar with. I don’t know if that’s because some roses do better on the west coast than the east coast, or just that the gardens around here tend to plant similar roses. In any case, photographing these roses was a wonderful way to end a fantastic photography trip to Washington.

The Impressionist – a beautiful yellow, peach and orange rose

The Impressionist Rose © 2015 Patty Hankins

Neptune – a soft purple rose

Scentimental – a lovely red and white rose

And finally Brass Band – a beautiful peach and pink rose

Abstracts from Palouse, Washington

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 29, 2015 | Washington

I recently took a workshop with Art Wolfe in the Palouse Region of Washington state. For those of you who are familiar with Art, you can probably guess why I was so excited to take a workshop with him. I expected we’d spend most of our time photographing landscapes – so you can imagine my surprise when on the first morning of the workshop, Art lectured on abstract expressionism and how we can look for abstracts when we’re photographing other subjects. And then our first photo shoot of the workshop wasn’t photographing landscapes – but instead we stopped in the town of Palouse with the assignment of looking for and finding abstract subjects to photograph.

I had a blast photographing abstract subjects – so I thought I’d share a few of my abstract photos with you today.

Is this a photo of a fabric rose? or the face of a lion?

An iron grate? or a metal tree sculpture?

A pile of plates? or a building from the Jetsons cartoons?

An old curtain behind a textured window? or something else?

Shadows on the cement? or ?????

Peeling paint? or an eerie landscape on another planet?

After a wonderful lunch at the Green Frog Cafe, we headed off to photograph more abstracts in a group of old cars. I’ll share some of those photos soon.

But in the meantime, I’m curious – what do you see in my photos? Let me know in the comments below.

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