Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific The moon was up

The moon was up

Taken during a massive wildfire in Otis

the Oregon Coast put on an unforgettable show

I hiked to the top of Salal Hill when this swell moved through — the only angle that shows the lighthouse the way the Oregon Coast actually frames it: small against the Pacific

This one was photographed on the Hatfield Estuary Trail

Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific The moon was upThis is the photograph I waited fifteen years to take. Fifteen years ago I saw Scott's photograph of this lens for the first time. The way he'd handled the light, the way the lens itself became the architecture of the frame I remember standing in front of it and thinking that I hoped, eventually, I might be good enough to be allowed to make a photograph like this one. I didn't say it out loud. I'm not sure I even fully said it to myself. But the