Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Storm Series 1

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Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Storm Series 1You Have to Climb Salal Hill to See It This Way. Most people photograph Yaquina Head from the parking lot or the designated overlooks. This isn't that shot. To get this angle, I hiked to the top of Salal Hill above the lighthouse, above the standard viewpoints. From there, you see how exposed this headland really is. The waves that reach these rocks have to be 20 feet or more just to break here. Smaller swells don't register. This day they did. What

I used a remote trigger because I couldn't get a good footing

that meant getting close

everything building

Depoe Bay has the world's smallest navigable harbor — a narrow notch cut into the basalt of the Oregon Coast

Once he was set up

I was there for what felt like an hour and was probably forty-five minutes

This is the photograph I waited fifteen years to take

This location gets genuinely dangerous when the sea starts moving in

Caught near Otter Rock

cutting that razor line between wingtip and waterline that only pelicans pull off at full speed

Hand-stretched canvas on premium cotton substrate with UV-protective sealant — the same archival standard used in professional galleries

and this frame captures all of the fear and trust of that moment