TITLE: Winter Melt

Sauvie Island is surrounded by the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, ten miles from Portland, Oregon. It’s a place I’ve photographed many times over the years, part designated wildlife area, part farmland. After a heavy snowstorm, unusual for this part of the Pacific Northwest, isolated stands of oak and alder stood in an almost monochromatic landscape of melting snow, drizzle and fog.

AUTHOR: Scott Hoyle (United States)

Scott Hoyle is a graduate of Kendall College of Art & Design. After a thirty five year career as an Illustrator/Graphic Designer, he is now focusing his creativity on fine art photography.

He has received recognition and awards including The Fence 2013 and 2015, front covers of Black & White Magazine 2014 Single Image and 2015 Contest Winners’ issues, First Place in both “Abstract & Silhouette” 2015 La Grande International Photography Awards and First Place “Still Life” 2016 Black & White Spider Awards, PDN Magazine, San Francisco International Photography Exhibition, International Conservation Photography Award ( ICP), Critical Mass Finalist, Communication Arts Photography Awards, and The Center for Fine Art Photography.