On Wednesday I met two photographer friends at Lake of the Woods in the late afternoon for a group photo session. Shane and Bryon do a lot of portrait photography so they are always glad for the chance to get out and photograph in nature. Lake of the Woods is located in the Southern Oregon Cascades between Ashland and Klamath Falls. Other than a small resort and a few summer homes it is generally quite and has great views of the surrounding mountains, including Mt. McLaughlin. In the early summer there are large meadows that can be dense with wildflowers. Now that it was the middle of September, they were long gone, but we figured there would be some nice photographs of the sunset and Mt. McLaughlin reflected in the lake. We talked a lot and took a few photos. The conditions weren’t stunningly spectacular, but the late twilight shots taken with long exposures have nice mysterious shadows and a deep, glowing quality to them.
