Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Storm Series 5 portland oregon With a background in publishing

With a background in publishing and years spent documenting the coastline in all conditions

and oranges spun together into something almost too pretty to be real

The November Coast rarely gives you both at once

elegant and unhurried in its natural habitat

This isn't one wave

Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Storm Series 5 portland oregon With a background in publishingFive Frames. One Storm. One Morning. Storm days at Yaquina Head don't give you much time. The light changes. The swell shifts. The position of each wave against the lighthouse is different every few minutes. I shot all five of these images in the same window, from the top of Salal Hill the only elevated angle on the headland. Each one is from the same morning, the same conditions, the same position. But each one is a different moment: a different