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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I appreciate you guys checking out this episode. I’m recording today. I’m out by the wildlife refuge, listening to some birds that are still here kind of wintering through the winter, the waters pretty high out here, sort of through the rains and stuff, we’ve been getting kind of recently, some of those, I guess, kind of regularly expected winter storms, but I’m doing pretty good. I’ve been kind of working on some computer stuff, trying to get some office and photo stuff sort of sorted out, which has been going pretty good.
I’ve also been trying to get ready for the sort of coming into the end of February. And now in March, April, May. And I’m hoping to kind of ramp it up a bit for some more stuff. But let me kind of prep and then head out on some day trips to Eastern Oregon, which has been relaxed. Haven’t gotten that far yet. But right around the corner, I’m making the big trip, and I’m heading out toward the way river area, which is fantastic. I was talking about that a bit on the last one, and since then, I’ve been kind of going out to some nearby spots that are past the Cascades that are out in the Eastern Oregon area. And it’s cool getting out into the sagebrush and stuff and kind of checking out what’s out there in the area this time of year but excited to go out on this a wahoo chip it’s out in, I guess like the real far southeast corner of Oregon, it’s kind of an exciting area to be out in this time of year if I can kind of get the suitable weather break. So it’s really not too bad.
Frequently, the elevation out there is like, you know, 44,000 feet 4500 feet power higher, you know, to kind of get up on the hillsides and stuff, and those higher elevation spots can definitely be snowed out a lot of the time. So I think like a lot of those mountainside areas you know like if you’re going out to where the Steen’s or something I think that that’s the snowed in you learns as you kind of go up that mountain road there that’ll be snowed in until July sometimes so kind of depends on the snow here and stuff but at the sort of lower elevations the base elevations out there you can do some driving around, and I think they keep the highways pretty opened up. But it’s not really an all-year-round kind of place out there. I mean, I don’t know if you guys have driven out to burns Oregon or out pass from burns to I don’t know what’s the road burns to Vail or Ontario has you kind of going out to Boise, and you can take like another road that sort of cuts out south of there and then deep into Nevada, you pass Rome McDermott out there and that’s some kind of where I’m trying to plan on heading. But there’s a couple like hunting well, I guess it would be significant stretches of BLM land that go on out there. Then there’s some of that it’s been kind of maintaining some of it not really so much for like winter stuff but some areas around why he river in some spots that and go into there’s a couple I guess it’s sort of remote, very remote, probably no one going to be there right now but active enough by bike, you know, maintenance services by the state that you can get back in there this time of year. And it’s kind of cool.
Yeah, not as hilly out there. You don’t have as many trees to come down even though they’re doing an excellent job this year of kind of getting everything all those roads and stuff and keeping them pretty well maintained. Some of that stuff out there in the really remote parts of Oregon, they kind of let be until the season starts to change. But some of this stuff I’m going to should be pretty straightforward. The UI e river stuff is pretty cool. In many hunting camps, there are a lot of kinds of remote, dispersed campsites. It’s cool, kind of going through the maps and stuff and trying to find those in advance, trying to sort of plan it out. I got a couple of days of trying to stay in a spot. And then a lot of the times I’m kind of like on a road trip, like a truck, road trip sort of thing, but I’m kind of trying to set it up, so that sort of in like an area, and then I get to go roam around that zone for a little more time. And I’m hoping that that kind of is a different set of photos that I’m able to make from it for being in a spot for a longer time kind of seem like a sunrise or sunset sunrise and the sunset on the same zone of an area. I think it’s kind of cool when you’re out there.
And even though a lot of the time, it’s almost the same. It seems like a couple of days of those exposures and experiences are different enough that it’s kind of cool to have that variation in the photographs you’re making of an area. So I like that I like the rocky River Canyon stuff that has been seen out there. And a lot of those Eastern Oregon landscapes and rim rock natural features are really cool. And I like capturing them at this time of year in the wintertime. Eastern Oregon and marches are really pretty cool. I like it a lot out there. I like it in the summer a lot easier to kind of travel around. Well, in some capacities if it’s not too hot, that kind of part of the problem out there is really not many towns now many resources or at least you know, to make it easier like a lot of this kind of like when I get into that, but it’s just a pretty remote and pretty harsh kind of country and stuff, and it’s fantastic.
It’s really cool, and it’s a lot of wilderness. Or even hardly will, you know, it’s kind of contacted by roads. But, still, it’s really remote, it’s kind of difficult to move around in, and you’re hours away from, I guess, much absolute stability as it is for society or for a lot of stuff, the whole area out there and in Nevada, parts of Idaho that that SE wash or southeast Oregon area in Utah, just real open country out there, it’s probably like one of the most considerable sections in the United States that, that remote that that that is that empty. And I think that’s sort of some of the stuff that you get in that section of the, the, I guess it’s part of the Great Basin, something like that. But yeah, there’s a real, you know, wide sprawling kind of sagebrush fields that you get out there.
So cool area cool and really nice spots to photograph what’s cool though, as this time of year, the wintertime is like February, March, April because you get a little snow in those areas. So you can get some snow tops, rim rocks, and hillsides and stuff, but you also get enough dynamics in the weather that you get some clear skies, and you get some I think really cool kind of storm clouds sort of getting mixed up in the skies over wide-open Eastern Oregon. Air out there the landscape, and so sometimes you can get these really cool big kind of swirled storm clouds as they sort of start to mix up over the landscape out there. And yeah, you get some exciting visualizations, especially as you get kind of toward the evening you get some really, I think beautiful sunsets or sunrises or just variety of mixes with the colors and the clouds and stuff and like I was saying earlier on a couple other podcasts ago.
Some of those tools use extended exposure techniques or compression in those landscape photos when you use them like 70 to 80 or sorry, 24 to 70-millimeter lenses or 80 to 200-millimeter telephoto lenses. I think those are really cool out in those landscape places. You can kind of do a lot of sorts of interesting compression dynamics, and you can do a lot of interesting long exposure stuff with those cool clouds was cool colors and sweeps and stuff. So it’s kind of cool to get to practice a few of those different pieces all at the same time. But having a good time. Getting ready for this trip out to Eastern Oregon having a good time. Kind of getting prepped with them by doing these longer.
Sort of full-day trips out there. It’s kind of tricky; as I mentioned, I think you wake up really early in the morning, and then you try and get everything set up in the truck already. You get busted out the door before it’s laid out. And if you can get on the road and if the weather’s pretty fair for you, you can get out to a lake, or you can get out over the Cascades and then over into you know sort of a different Eastern Oregon kind of countryside which has been relaxed, and I like that a lot. Really within like two hours or three hours you can get to this kind of place. And then once you’re there, three and a half hours in, you can kind of roam around a spot, get to a lake spot out in Eastern Oregon, you can do daily outdoor activity, make lunch go back out again. Get packed up at about 333 o’clock, hanging out if you want to. And then drive around the few hours you get home by six you have dinner.
It’s a pretty cool kind of afternoon winter day for doing some Eastern Oregon kind of wilderness stuff, and that way I don’t have to get, I guess, kind of stuck out in the dark for 15 hours which is kind of what I’ve been against the last couple of days. But back into it with the camping here anytime. I know I kind of get washed out on the deep snow or the heavy cold. I’m not a big fan of that like a couple of weeks ago; it was like we had that cold snap. It was warm ever on the coast. But a real hard over in in in like Central Oregon. It’s like the west of the country. It was like zero degrees. It was like an average. So it was really tough. Glad I wasn’t out camping and that stuff. But I know people do, and there’s like a lot of outdoor gear and stuff that’s already kind of set up and managed to be down to zero or below zero. Or like you know people that are here you know as a natural step out.
Like a 10 collapse because so much snow landed on it, you know there’s like the dome of the tent those little poles can take all the snow, but it landed on it overnight, but you think man what he just seems like to after camp and that kind of condition know how to calculate your stuff out in front of your campsite that has it hit with 12 inches of snow overnight. Your stove or your mascot and property are now coated in a foot of snow, your backpack that’s dumped in snow. Maybe you have a step to the vegetable, the tent, but who knows. So it’s kind of fun going out in the wintertime, especially in this kind of moderate, mild climates like we’ve got here. And what’s cool is Oregon is here, and it’s nice enough in the wintertime, you know, like wait and get those little breaks of sort of fair, moderate weather.
But it’s cool to do because you also have or at least now my case like I’m considering the parts of California and the features of Nevada that are available to me as well and a lot of that Eastern California for that North Eastern section of California. So it is a little warmer than the February March climate in Oregon, with less snow at some elevations. And, and yeah, a bit I don’t know more, more ready to go you know if you get like down south and reading and then out toward like Lassen Peak and Easter they’re even by like mid-March you can have, you know, pretty comfortable or pretty moderate temperatures significantly down now that, you know if you move on from there, down out into parts of Nevada, some of it can be freezing up in the mountains and stuff. But, still, man, yeah, some of that in Nevada can be really comfortable.
So as in friends now that are down in Arizona, for the winter doing some outdoor stuff, and it sounds great, you know, like kind of being in pretty moderate climates down there through the wintertime getting out of some rain, Oregon, getting out on an adventure. Sounds pretty fun. And so sometimes you kind of think like, oh, I’m stuck in the snow of the Cascades or the wet cold of the Oregon coast or something like that. But really, if you just got to put another nine hours in the car, you’re out in Nevada, or Utah, or out in the high desert area of, you know, somewhere else. So sounds kind of cool. And it sounds like it might be kind of a fun thing to do. If you can do that. Think about it, you know, like all the amounts of land you can go out to, it’s like it’s not the only that your stay alone is not the least, but you can plan a trip and which is kind of fun. So I’ve been trying to do that a bit more, too.
So gotta have something like that coming up soon. But yeah, probably mostly stuff we’ll talk about on this episode of the podcast. I appreciate guys checking out these podcasts through February and through March now. It’s been pretty cool. I’ll have another one coming up. Next week. Got some gear tips and stuff to go over. Got to talk about this a while he chips a bit. That’d be pretty cool. And yeah, just doing some remote high desert stuff this week. It’s been pretty cool. Good prepped, you ready to go camping.
So hope you guys are doing well, having a good winter, and getting through it. For me, you can go to Billy Newman photo comm to see more of the information about me, you can go to Billy Newman photo.com forward slash support. If you’d like to find out some information about how to support this podcast and keep me in the production of some podcasts, photos and photo books, and some traveling stuff. So appreciate you guys checking it out works kind of like Patreon. You’ll figure it out. But yeah, appreciate you guys tuning into this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Talk to you again next week.