I have traveled to Oregon quite a bit since 2005 to photograph the Oregon Coast. Now that my son lives in Oregon’s wine country, the trips will be more frequent. A typical trip is to fly into Portland, stay overnight at an airport hotel and head out the next morning to visit the beautiful waterfalls in the Columbia Gorge before heading to the coast later in the day. As a result, I hadn’t shot the Gorge during the evening hours until last year. On our west coast vacation in September, my son acted as our tour guide to show us some places we hadn’t visited before heading to Seattle. Since our evenings were unplanned, we decided to visit the Gorge so I could finally get some evening photos. This is a photo taken from the Portland Women's Forum State Scenic Viewpoint, which looks eastward through the Gorge. The building on a rock promontory is the Vista House, which lies about 750 feet above the Columbia River that separates the states of Oregon and Washington.