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I have no idea how many sea creatures are in this small snippet of the undersea world at low tide, but this space sure looks to be thriving. Taken near Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, OR.
Here's a re-edit of a image from one of my favorite nights ever behind a camera. It was truly an amazing night in Cannon Beach, Oregon shooting Haystack Rock. We showed up with low expectations for good light, but we were blessed with amazing light this night.
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Stopped in at (the often, often photographed) Cannon Beach on the way to Portland, just in time for sunset.
Haystack Rock is one of Oregon's most recognizable landmarks, home to colorful tidepools and diverse bird life. It rises 235 feet from the edge of the shoreline.
-- Cannon Beach. Org
This is Haystack Rock at Pacific City (not the one at Cannon Beach -- yes, there are two by that name on the Oregon coast). Nothing going on in the evening sky except a crescent Moon flanked by Jupiter to its lower right and the bright star Spica to its lower left. A little canal in the sand snaked away from water's edge, creating a nice reflective highlight on the beach, although it was too windy for any mirror-like reflections.
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I parked in the wrong spot to get to Haystack rock, I ended up walking quite a ways down the beach to get to the spot I wanted. It ended up being for the best, I was able to admire it's beauty as I made the walk before sunset The tide was slowly coming in, and the wet set made for the perfect mirror for this natural wonder.
The Birds flying off the rock were something to behold as well, one of the most magnificent places I have ever been.
I loved the effect the wide angle lens gave this shot, it just draws you down the beach.
She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful. -Terri St. Cloud
I came across this quote in the book I am reading. I think it is quite possibly one of the loveliest strings of words I have ever read. Not so much the specific words, but what they say.
I arrived at Cannon Beach around 3pm and I could see the big Haystack Rock… but not much else. The tide was in, and really, aside from being a big tourist beach, it did not look like it had much to offer… But, I drove all that way so I figured I’d shoot the sunset. As usual, I arrived quite early to try and find a decent composition… But when I came back, the tide was out and the clouds were spectacular. As I moved in tighter to hHaystack Rock, I noticed these long leading tide pools which immediately drew my eye and really excited me.
I had to remove probably 50 people from my shot which was a total pain, but worth ever minute of work. They were scrambling around Haystack Rock like a pack of locusts!
In the end this was 5 shots. 3 shots for the focus stack of the foreground, one shot for Haystack Rock (the light hit it quite nicely on one of the exposures) and one last shot for the clouds. They were changing very quickly and this particular shot had the best texture and placement.
Haystack Rock, on Cannon Beach, as viewed from Ecola State Park. Conversion from a scan of a Kodachrome 25 35mm transparency.
Ecola St. Park, OR
Cannon Beach, Oregon
One of Oregon's most beloved coastal parks, Ecola State Park at Cannon Beach, is about as beautiful as it gets on the state's Pacific shore. After driving into the parking lot, most visitors get out of the car and stare.
Even on a gorgeous summer day when several hundred people were milling around the parking lot, I was the only one who took the time to hike 1.5 miles down to Crescent Beach, where I shared the warm sand with a flock of curved-beaked whimbrels.
As the surf crashes onto the beach, the offshore lighthouse on Tillamook Rock dances in and out of the cloud banks that often cloak it. No longer used as a lighthouse, it most recently served as a columbarium for ashes of the deceased.
The trail down to Crescent Beach begins at the Ecola Point parking area, which also has other paved paths to viewpoints. At low tide, Crescent Beach is accessible directly from the town of Cannon Beach, though this access is best left for locals who know how to time the tide at Chapman Point.
Beyond Ecola Point, the park road ends at Indian Beach, with even more memorable views of offshore seastacks, crashing waves and bird sanctuaries.
Visitors tend to range a bit farther afield from this parking lot, taking time to poke around in the tide pools and to hike part of the trail that crosses Tillamook Head and reaches Seaside in six miles.
If you go: Ecola State Park is on the north side of Cannon Beach, accessible by a two-mile curvy (but paved) road through a coastal forest to parking lots at Ecola Point and Indian Beach. Park at Ecola Point and follow trail signs to Crescent Beach.
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This picture was shot on a tripod with three exposures (-2..0..+2 EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tone mapping and detail enhanced. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. 1 layer mask to increase contrast in the sky. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Used Nik Sharpener Pro to sharpen image.
Another early morning shot of the Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach at Low Tide. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Looks like I am not very creative with the titles. Sorry. Yet another sunset at Cannon Beach shot. This one a bit later than the other two and a bit moody. By this time it was getting tough to get the photo that I wanted with the sky and reflection in the sand and still worry about the rule of thirds and the like.
And if you can say, "Singh-Ray Galen Rowell soft 2 stop GND" . . . well, it would still be true.
Because you are my best friend for looking at this photo, I'm including a link to the large size where you can take a minute and drink in the scene.
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most interesting (as determined by Flickr).
I can never get enough of the Oregon Coast at sunset - this shot was taken just after sunset with Haystack Rock in the background
I would take this view over the beaches we have in Florida any day. Look at this rock! Though it rained all day, the sun did peak out for just a second to let me get this photo.
Not much going on for sunset color, practically socked in gray and rainy. Thought I'd work on some wave action shots instead.
Aaron Reed came walking up while I was taking this image. He probably was wondering why I ran away and abandoned the camera as the wave came rolling in. Hey, the tripod was stuck in there pretty solidly and I didn't have a spare pair of shoes with me... :-)
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Canon 1Ds Mark II
17-40L
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ISO 200
Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach Oregon. One in a series - see my Photostream and my 'Oregon' album for more related photos.
One of the most outstanding beaches in the world for creative nature & sunset photography.
Pentax 645Nii, 35mm SMC lens (MF), 1/350 f/16, Provia 100 film
Direct conversion to B&W and a touch of sepia, other than that, no image processing. The black speck is a bird... zoom in a little and you'll see a few others. The rock is a nesting ground for gulls.
Photographed around Haystack Rock, Canon Beach, Oregon. I don't often attempt to id gulls. If my id is incorrect let me know. IMG_3287
Quiet moment near sunset out at Haystack Rock when no one else was in the frame. From 11,600 feet to literally sea level in one day, a long long journey but a nice peaceful way to end.
There can be so much unpredictability in life and photography. There is chance and fortune and luck. In some ways we work to minimize that which we cannot predict, and we are not always aware we are doing so. In some ways we work to embrace it. For example look at all the unpredictable elements that went into this image. First I headed to the coast in April... in a wind and rain storm. The day before a tree had blown over and killed a man a bit farther to the north. Would it be pouring when I got there? Or sunny? Or neither? And no matter what it was when I arrived, who knew what it would be an hour after that. And then I loaded my camera with thirty year old expired film. That is sort of like taking the milk out of the fridge two weeks after its expiration date and taking a swig without bothering to look. It's risky. Although film has an advantage over milk in that when things turn out well there is a much higher upshot. And on top of all that I layered two strong ND filters, a 9 and a 10 stop to stretch this exposure out several minutes.
Was I worried about any of this going awry? No because at the end of the day it was just a 17cm long piece of film, no big deal really. It wasn't like I lost my time, I enjoyed the wait and the stay on the cliffs over the ocean regardless of the exposure. It wasn't like I'd lose that fabulous sense of curiosity that makes me want to do things like this, if anything a "failure" would only have fed it.
This image only turned out halfway like I expected it to. Some aspects of the final product matched my hopes or intentions but the other half were unplanned or responses to unplanned factors that revealed themselves in the final image and required some adaptation on my part in the final scanning and post-processing.
But for me this is the name of the game. That element of chance mixed with curiosity combined with adaptation and evolution. Every time I go out to expose silver to light I end up seeing a bit more than I expected to see.
Fuji G617 / Ilford FP4