Year: 2019

You might think barnacles aren’t much too look at, but I hope today’s post makes you change that idea. This is a series of three images, each one focusing closer on the subject of today’s post: barnacles. Yes, the lowly Arthropoda Crustacea Maxillopoda Thecostraca, the bane of sailors and harbormasters. This flat rock sits at the high tide line, which is clearly marked by the thick band of white barnacles near the sand. I loved this rock so much I hiked out the second day with a better camera to take this image. Move closer to that white band and…

I spent two weeks on the southern Oregon coast, which has some of my favorite beaches anywhere. The weather and light can be totally different from morning to late afternoon and all hours between, so whatever time I went, I found beautiful scenes. This particular stretch of beach has a lot of rock formations, or sea stacks. At dead low tide, the reflections of those sea stacks on the beach were almost perfect. I spotted a photographer here waiting for his moment and so I came back two days later to the same spot. This shot was definitely worth the…

Here in the US, it’s that time of year when the clocks go back and hour and sunset starts coming way too early (It will be just after 5PM here in Oregon). So to make everyone feel a little bit better about Fall and the inevitable slide into Winter, here’s a few images from recent days. Yes, it really was that pretty on a walk at Champoeg (pronounced “Sham-POO-ee) State Park. Which was pretty much the only thing about the park that didn’t drive me nuts. It set a new personal record for number and variety of leaf blowers (five,…