Two weeks ago dad and I headed east for a quick photography trip to the Palouse, which is one of my favorite parts of the state and a classic spot for landscape photography. The Palouse is an agricultural region on the border of Washington and Idaho, sitting south of Spokane, and characterized by beautiful rolling hills with fields of wheat, legumes, and rapeseed. We had a great time during our short trip, with some cloudy weather on our first day and a beautiful sunset the night before we headed back to Seattle. Here are a few photos!
We stopped briefly by Palouse Falls on our drive east
Flowers at sunset near Palouse Falls
Grain elevators in Washtucna
Cloudy sunrise near Steptoe
Steptoe Butte with a lenticular cloud and wheat field in the foreground
Grain bins and flowers
Cloudy barn panorama
Rapeseed and Steptoe Butte
Steptoe Butte and fields
More Rapeseed fields
Old barn near Kamiak Butte
Rapeseed in the evening light
Another old barn near Kamiak Butte
Ladow Butte at sunset
Sunset near Garfield
Color in the clouds as the last light hits the hills in Idaho
An old barn at dusk
The classic view: sunrise from Steptoe Butte
Fields and drainage ditches from Steptoe Butte
Flowers and a field near Cashup