Over the past week, we’ve been in Oregon — visiting family in Corvallis, exploring the coast and enjoying the storms coming off the Pacific Ocean. On Saturday, we visited McDowell Creek County Park and checked out several waterfalls. On this day, the light cooperated and I was able to capture this image from the top of Majestic Falls.

This image of a field of Mule’s Ears, Scarlet Gilia and Flax was captured using a relatively long shutter speed while tilting the camera to produce an impressionist-style blur. I used Topaz Impression to add brush strokes and enhance the overall impressionist quality of the image.

Here is another Wild Blue Flax image from our time in Crested Butte this summer. Each stem produces many buds that open at different times. As a result, we enjoyed seeing and photographing these flowers throughout most of our stay.

For this image, I chose a painterly treatment using multiple textures. The main body of the image uses two textures — one from the FrenchKiss collection and one from my own files. The border was constructed using one of the Flypaper Fly Edges textures.