Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Sunburst pacific each movement whispering through the

each movement whispering through the currents like a gentle sigh

I shot this at low tide in the fall — the window when the bowl opens up and gives you access to angles that simply don't exist at any other time

This is the moment of collision — the full force of an open-ocean swell meeting the coast at the world's smallest navigable harbor

The conditions that day came together the way they almost never do — big enough to be extraordinary

Then the sun came up

Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Sunburst pacific each movement whispering through theA Sunburst Shot Requires More Than Good Light. Getting a clean sunburst requires the right aperture, the right angle, and the patience to wait for the sun to sit in exactly the right position. Get any of it wrong and you end up with noise that turns the whole shot muddy. This was a clear fall day at Yaquina Head one of those days when the coast acts like it's making up for everything it put you through the rest of the year. The sunburst is large