The Blaine Franger Photography Blog

[...] I fully intend on keeping up with a lot better than this one. It's called "Beautiful Hood River" and the address is http://beautifulhoodriver.com/. The idea behind it is [...]

[...] Please join us for opening night of "Beautiful Hood River". A photography exhibit by Blaine Franger. Downtown Hood River at The Pines Tasting [...]

[...] I've been devoting all my "blogging time" to my new daily photo blog "Beautiful Hood River" so definitely go check it out here- http://beautifulhoodriver.com/ Or just [...]

[...] too. Anyway, for now just wanted to share a quick photo from this morning! Rainbow over Columbia River Gorge- [...]

I went out shooting this morning and ended up coming home with this new panoramic image I'm pretty happy with! It consists of 23 vertical images stitc [...]

[...] Lots of photos of the Columbia River recently! Here is one I managed to quickly grab of the sunset tonight after finishing up a [...]

[...] green and vibrant this time of year, I love it! These are some photos I shot along the way... Columbia River and Syncline, Washington Columbia River and Syncline, Washington Tractor Sign- Trees- Oak [...]

[...] totally real!"  The second I saw this photo I knew it was a huge fake. Why?  #1) Mount Hood is waaaaaay too large. Yes, it's easy to make Mt. Hood look larger than life by using a [...]

I went out shooting this morning and ended up coming home with this new panoramic image I'm pretty happy with! It consists of 23 vertical images stitc [...]

[...] A few days ago I got great news that I placed 3rd in the Alaska Airlines 2010 Photo Contest! Not bad for more than 1,500 entries. :) If you're taking an Alaska or [...]

[...] A snapshot of my 3 entries to the 2010 Alaska Airlines photo contest... chances of winning are super slim but never know if ya don't try. :) I [...]

[...] for the fun of it, officially debunk one of the most popular photos out there representing Hood River Oregon. Here is the photo:  I only bring it up because I've seen the photo countless times on [...]

[...] .com/. The idea behind it is simply just a photo a day from my beautiful hometown, Hood River Oregon. I have thousands upon thousands of images that have never seen the light of day, so [...]

I dropped Bethany off at PDX yesterday and decided to bring my camera for some waterfall photos on the way back to Hood River. This is Latourell Fall [...]

[...] too. Anyway, for now just wanted to share a quick photo from this morning! Rainbow over Columbia River Gorge- [...]

6 photos stitched together to make this panorama. Shot handheld from a kayak! Click pic to see it larger. [...]

You could say I'm a little envious of this view...  taken yesterday from the backyard of a beautiful house on the White Salmon, Washington bluff. [...]

[...] to shoot Hood River and Mount Hood in the same frame, like in the image below. But in the fake photo, the foreground (Cliff, River, Town, etc) is shot with a wide angle lens and the mountain [...]

[...] is pasted in what seems about 30 miles too far to the West. I'm not exactly sure where the foreground photo was taken from, but the photographer was East of the bridge. The mountain would be far out [...]