Palouse landscape photos published in UK

More than a dozen photos of the Palouse appeared on-line in an article in a United Kingdom newspaper.

Christine Haines of Spokane said she has had her photos printed in other foreign countries, but these are the first of the Palouse.

“It all started with a photo of a squirrel I uploaded to my Flickr Photo Stream,” she said in an email.

A special features editor from a photographic press agency contacted her about getting the squirrel image published around the world, and the photo was published in several on-line newspapers.

Other photos she’s had published include polar bears, birds and bison. Her polar bear pictures were published in “People’s Pets” on-line magazine.

“I have been taking images of the Palouse for several years,” she said in an email. “I usually go during May, June and July.

“I don’t consider myself as a landscape photographer,” she said. “I prefer wildlife photography.”

The article’s writer noted the Palouse photos could be mistaken for paintings.

The article goes on to say that the images are so “stunning they could easily be mistaken for a painting by Van Gogh or Claude Monet.”

Most of the pictures are of the rolling hills below Steptoe Butte. Haines told the newspaper that she likes to take photos just before sunset, because the colors are more brilliant during that time of day.

Haines not only caught the colors of the hills when they are brilliant shades of green, she also took pictures of wind turbines on the hills, a paraglider above some fields and a deer jumping over stands of wheat below Steptoe Butte.

“May and June are the best months to capture the beautiful green rolling hills, while in July you have the gold and brown colors,” Haines said in the article.

“Even though I consider myself a wildlife photographer and not a landscape photographer, I like to photograph this area because of its beauty and to practice landscape photography.

“The Palouse is farmland and is always changing. I usually stay three to four hours,” she told the newspaper.

“I was surprised to see so many people from the U.S. reading Mail On-Line,” she said. “The majority of the comments were positive. One comment thought I had Photo-shopped them. Another disagreed with this comment and said, ‘Yes this is the way the Palouse looks.’ “

Haines said she’s also had photos published in National Wildlife, Nature’s Best Mag and this year’s The Nature Conservancy calendar.

To see the photos, go to http://www.dailymail. co.uk/news/article-2460659.