Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific This series has sold more

This series has sold more prints than anything else I've made

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

From a remarkable king tide event where the combination of extreme high tide and powerful ocean swells created waves that seemed to defy the horizon

on the hike out

Sea grass in the foreground

Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific This series has sold moreThis 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