Haystack clearing

Just like my last Oregon coast shot, it proved hard to retrace my footsteps to find out JUST where this was taken, my only guess being it was south of Bandon. On one of the descending trails from the forested cliffside to the beach I instantly spotted a haystack rock in the water.

This left me with a couple of options. I could try for a sideline shot of the beach and focus on the rock, but that would be a bit generic and probably not the best looking. I could get a full reflection shot when the waves receded (which was a better idea, and I did end up getting that too).

But then I saw these two rocks and tried another composition. Recalling Starvation Creek, I knew there was potential in a wedged shot. But the saving grace of this shot was really the logs at the bottom of the frame, helping provide a good foreground and some of them even pointing out to the rock.

Now admittedly I did cheat a little bit. The haystack rock was much smaller in the original shot and I couldn't bring out my 200m cause I had the foreground I wanted right here. So I pulled out another one of my shots with a closer and more detailed view of the rock (learned my lesson from previous shots, enlarging something already in the frame more often then not just ends in the subject looking softer). The rest of the image you see has not been tampered with (and it was the only frame in this position I had strangely). It looks reminiscent of a national park poster with the oil-like art style.

Done