Bend Oregon, where to shoot?

ShizamShizam Registered Users Posts: 418 Major grins
edited September 24, 2009 in Location, Location, Location!
So here I am in Bend for two days and it looks like there are some amazing places to photograph but I don't know exactly where :) Anybody got suggestions?

Thanks!

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  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited September 18, 2009
    Are there any good landscape up toward Mt. Bachelor? I have never been to Bend.

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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited September 18, 2009
    Shizam wrote:
    So here I am in Bend for two days and it looks like there are some amazing places to photograph but I don't know exactly where :) Anybody got suggestions?

    Thanks!

    Sam

    Tsk, tsk Shizzy, I'm moving y0 post to Angelo's forum. I really hope you guys get to take photos while you're up there, but who am I kidding? It's the processing part that we really wanna see. :D

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  • ShizamShizam Registered Users Posts: 418 Major grins
    edited September 18, 2009
    Oops, thanks for moving me, RIH :)
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  • CayuseCayuse Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited September 18, 2009
    Smith Rocks State Park just a little ways north would be an option.
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  • LaurieHLaurieH Registered Users Posts: 29 Big grins
    edited September 18, 2009
    Tumalo Falls - hike above it... there are other nice falls, though not as high
    Hike up to Broken Top
    Mirror Pond
    Newberry National Volcanic Monument
    Downtown Bend
    McKenzie Pass
    Benham Falls
    Lava Island Falls
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  • scolescole Registered Users Posts: 378 Major grins
    edited September 18, 2009
    Just beyond the ski area is Sparks Lake which offers some nice settings for a lake photo with the mountain in the background. As someone else mentioned, McKenzie Pass seems like it would be interesting due to all the volcanic rock in the area..
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  • ShizamShizam Registered Users Posts: 418 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2009
    Thanks all, settled on Tumalo Falls, it was great and there was so much to photograph (besides the falls) that I wish I could go back several more times even though I'm not usually a waterfall chaser :)

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  • WirenWiren Registered Users Posts: 741 Major grins
    edited September 24, 2009
    your probably gone already.....
    Shizam wrote:
    Thanks all, settled on Tumalo Falls, it was great and there was so much to photograph (besides the falls) that I wish I could go back several more times even though I'm not usually a waterfall chaser :)

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    Tumalo falls is good. There is also Paulina Lake/Mountain/Hills, etc just out of LaPine, really good stuff if you go back. Also, the High desert offers some good things, and there are caves in the area also. Drive up to Pilot Butte on a clear day and you have a great landscape view of several mountains. Driving back up towards PDX, you get highway views of 3 sisters, 3 fingered Jack, Broken Top, Mt. Washington, good stuff.
    Lee Wiren
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