Category: United States

The southernmost coast of Oregon, that stretch right above the border with California, is one place I hadn’t explored before so I corrected that oversight last week on a day trip through as many day use places as I could cram into one trip. I took along my Sony A7 (aka “the big camera”) with an old-school, heavy-glass, all-manual Minolta lens bolted on. The lens was my Dad’s back in the day, and it kinda sorta works with the electronics on the Sony, but I have to pay attention to the exposure and then focus carefully on each shot because…

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…