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Broken Top Sunrise Print, now showing at the High Desert Museum!

I am proud to announce that one of my fine art prints, “Broken Top Sunrise” is now on display at Central Oregon’s High Desert Museum.  The High Desert Museum is a phenomenal resource for Bend and the whole High Desert region.  The High Desert Museum elegantly utilizes history, wildlife and natural resources to foster a greater appreciation of conservation and preservation in both Central Oregon and the Intermountain west.  Below is an image of my fine art print, “Broken Top Sunrise” which is currently on display at the High Desert Museum.

Art at the High Desert Museum

Art at the High Desert Museum

The exhibit that my print is part of is about invasive species in the High Desert.  Predictably, the exhibit is extremely well organized and laid out.  It is a great combination of  material that is visually stimulating, entertaining, and educational.  Coincidentally, my print is a documentation of native species of

High Desert Museum Logo

High Desert Museum

wildflowers thriving in the Bend, Oregon area.  It is not intended to represent invasive species, but rather the beauty of native species.

My print, “Broken Top sunrise” was captured high on the flanks of Broken Top Mountain, not far from the Broken Top Trail.  it is an image that I worked very hard to get.  Many separate scouting trips, both before and after sunrise were required to appropriately plan and compose this photograph.  It is one of my favorite locations in the Bend, Oregon area and it is one that I am honored to share with the High Deseert Museum!  For information about my Broken Top Sunrise image or any of the many other fine art prints in my portfolio, please visit the galleries page of my website by visiting the following link. Fine Art images.  Incidentally, you can find my line of Bend Oregon Note Cards in the Silver Sage Trading Store located just just a few feet away from where my print is currently hanging in the museum.  For more information about my note cards please visit my note cards page.  Bend, Oregon Note Cards.
I hope that the good folks at the High Desert Museum are half as happy to have the print as I am to share the print.
thanks for Visiting and I’ll see you at the museum!
Mike Putnam

Bend, Oregon Winter Snow Photographs.

Fresh Snow on the Central Oregon Cascades, near Bend, Oregon

My hometown of Bend, Oregon is truly a four season outdoor wonderland.  Unfortunately, the winter of 2012 had been especially mild until yesterday.  Bend and the Central Oregon region are heavily dependent on winter snow fall for their supply of exceptional drink water, as well as irrigation water for agricultural purposes.  Winter snow melt from [...]

First Friday Art Walk in Downtown Bend, Oregon (12/2/2011)

Bend Oregon Snow

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New Proxy Falls Fine Art Photograph!

Proxy Falls, Three Sisters Wilderness Area, Oregon

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Bend Oregon Fall photography review.

Maple Leaves

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Photographs of Smith Rock State Park, Terrebonne, Oregon.

Smith Rock River Bend

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First Friday Art Hop in Bend, Oregon!

Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon

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Newberry Crater National Volcanic Monument from Paulina Peak

Paulina Peak and the Oregon Cascades

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Tumalo Falls in Summer!

Tumalo Falls, near Bend, Oregon

I’ve had few of photography successes this summer which means I’ll be coming out with with some new prints in the near future.  One of the images that I most definitely will be printing is the following photo of my favorite waterfall in the Bend, Oregon area, Central Oregon’s own, Tumalo Falls! Frankly, I’m thrilled [...]

Photography at Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River, Oregon!

Mount Jefferson

Hood River, Oregon has long been one of my favorite cities in the world.  We have some wonderful friends who live in Hood River, so we have become familiar with the Hood River Valley over the last decade and a half.  As a landscape photographer, the Hood River Valley may be as beautiful as anywhere [...]