Photo of the Week #4

This last weekend gave all of us in the Northwest just the break from the rain we all wanted - a gorgeous sunny day!  I took advantage of the day to head out into the Columbia River Gorge for dual reasons - to take a nice afternoon hike, and to shoot some imagery for a piece I was working on for Washington Trails magazine.  This week's photo is a simple shot of the Columbia Gorge, looking westward, from atop Beacon Rock, on the Washington side of the river.  Beacon Rock is an 840' plug volcano, with a narrow trail of bridges and switchbacks that leads to the top offering fantastic views up and down the river.  For this particular photo, I employed onOne's PhotoTools kit to HDR-ize the image to spruce up its appearance and give alot more detail to the wonderful clouds in the sky that day.