Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific I hiked to the top

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

slowly being reclaimed by the forest

I spotted a group of twelve near the water's edge and started moving

One of Jeremy's favorite sunset photographs — the kind of light that makes you forget everything else

The swell builds offshore

Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific I hiked to the topThis 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