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Steensland Photography

Landscape, nightscape, and automotive photographer based out of Myrtle Creek Oregon. My wife and I are an experienced and passionate photography team.

We can create beautiful and stunning photos in the market of Family, Automotive, Real Estate, and Aerial photography. We are based out of Myrtle Creek and serve Roseburg and the rest of Douglas County. Family photos- $250 per hour
Individual/couple- $200 per hour
Real estate- $150-250
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08/29/2026

And here's the rest of the photos from Cars and Coffee!

08/27/2026

Here's the first round of photos from Cars and Coffee this weekend! Thanks to everyone who came out, it was a beautiful day!

08/22/2026

And here's rest of the photos from EFs on the Mountain!

08/19/2026

We had an amazing time at our first EFs on the Mountain cruise. Our little crx did great on the 600 mile drive and we met so many cool new people! Anyway, here's the first round of photos, more to come!

07/29/2026

Rat Rod Round-Up 2026 was an incredible event! From tire-smoking drift cars and great people to stunning mountain views, it was an unforgettable experience. Can't wait for next year!

05/20/2026

One of the shots I was very excited to shoot at the Painted Hills was at Red Hill, a fascinating bright red and yellow conical hill comprised of ancient layers of soil and minerals.

This is a panorama shot at 35mm comprised of 3 sky panels and 3 foreground panels.

Exif:

Sky: f1.8, 123s, iso 640 x7/ panel
Ha: f1.4, 123s, iso 2500 x5
Foreground: f2.8, 30s, iso 8000 x10

05/09/2026

A couple weeks ago Beth and I made our first visit to the Painted Hills. We arrived Friday night around 10pm and were greeted by 28-degree temperatures and a crystal clear sky full of bright stars.

If you’ve never been truly far away from city lights, it’s an incredible experience that I highly recommend. You can sit for hours just staring into the vastness of space, watching the cloudy band of the Milky Way stretch across the sky overhead.

My original plan was to shoot a quick Milky Way pano and then move on to the next location for the night. But once I got started, I figured I might as well commit to some serious integration time. While the camera clicked away, I sat around reading my book, doing jumping jacks, and trying to keep my fingers from going numb in the cold.

When I finally finished the sky exposures and started on the foreground, I saw the Painted Hills for the first time on my camera screen. I was completely blown away by the alien-looking landscape.

After shooting all night, we got to watch the first morning light spill over the colorful hills before finally heading off to find a campground and get some sleep.

Keep an eye for the next part of the story once I get more processing done!

03/25/2026

After countless hours of Youtube, practice, and a training class, I finally felt ready to tackle the shot. Navigating deep potholes along the long gravel road, we arrived just after twilight and explored the location for the first time. I wasn’t sure whether to shoot from high above overlooking the valley or from the bridge itself. The close-up view from the bridge was far more complex, but much more engaging.

The bridge looked small in photos, so I wasn’t expecting the startling height when I first peered over the edge. It was even more daunting walking across the dilapidated planks in the dark, everything swaying as the river raged below.

After finishing all of my sky and foreground exposures, I had one last task... get a subject out on the bridge to show scale. I coaxed a reluctant Beth out with me, being careful not to shine any light over the edge. After grabbing a few shots and stepping back onto solid ground, I finally shined a light down to the distant river below. Good thing I waited until then, because she definitely wasn’t stepping back onto that bridge again.

The bridge itself was built in the 1960s to provide access to Camp McCaleb, a former Boy Scout camp that was otherwise reached by a low-water bridge during lower flow. It spans about 220 feet, anchored into cliffs on both sides, and hangs roughly 60 feet above the water.

This was my first attempt at a somewhat complex, focused stacked panorama, so bear with me. I also thought I had a great idea to wait for the moon to rise for the foreground, but it ended up lighting the hills like a sunrise.

The image consists of a 2 panel x2 panel panorama for the sky and a 2x2 focus-stacked foreground. Blending those cables was no easy task either.

This region of sky captures part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, an active star-forming region in our corner of the Milky Way. It includes the glowing red hydrogen-alpha emission nebula of Barnard’s Loop, faint dusty wisps of Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) illuminated by the galaxy itself, and stretches all the way to the bright blue reflection nebula surrounding the Pleiades star cluster.

A7III Astromod
Sigma 35mm f/1.4
MSM Nomad

Exif:

Sky:
RGB — f/2, 153s, ISO 320 (45 min/panel)
Ha — f/1.4, 153s, ISO 2500 (1.5 hrs)

Foreground:
f/1.4, 30s, ISO 1250 (focus-stacked pano)

01/02/2026

We had an amazing stay at Pickett Butte just after Christmas. We arrived beneath partly cloudy skies and were treated to a beautiful sunset. I made the descent down those ladder-like stairs more times than I can count, feeling the burn in my never-ending pursuit of the perfect photo.
Once the colors faded, we cooked dinner and settled into a relaxed evening of reading. Before turning in, I ventured back out to find the hilltop wrapped in fog and clouds, all glowing under a bright moon...far from ideal for night photography. I called it a night and headed to bed.
Around 5am I woke to discover the sky had completely cleared and the moon had finally set, revealing a whole new scene waiting to be captured.

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Division Street
Myrtle Creek, OR
97457

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http://www.steenslandphotography.com/

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