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Doctor: "Now, what seems to the the problem?"
Patient: "I'm seeing spots."
Doctor: "Spots? Hmmmm? When do you seem them?"
Patient: "When I look through my camera."
Doctor: "Do you think the camera may have something to do with that, and not with your eyes?"
Patient: "There's too much spray to open my eyes unless I'm looking through the camera. The damn place is windy, and right on the ocean."
Doctor: "Your eyes are open now. Do you see spots?"
Patient squints through his glasses: "Yes. Smaller ones."
Doctor: "Get out of my office."
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Spouting Horn on the Oregon coast near Cape Perpetua.
Camera: Nikon D850
Exposure: 1/3 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
35 mm Equiv Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO: 64
I went here 3 nights in a row trying to get a good sky for this image. This was my gift on Christmas Eve.
A closer look....
Named for St. Perpetua by Captain James Cook in March of 1778, Siuslaw National Forest’s Cape Perpetua National Scenic Area is the dramatic meeting place of two distinct but joined landscapes; dense and complex forests and the Pacific Ocean.
Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve is located a couple of miles south of Yachats and is one of the most unique ecosystems in the Pacific. It’s part of Oregon’s Marine Reserve Program and is the largest of the five reserves encompassing around 55 square miles of nearshore areas. In that area exists the reserve, two Marine Protected Areas, and a Seabird Protection Area. It is considered by many as one of the most biodiverse places on our country’s Pacific coastline.
In the middle of the shot are several impressive tidal water features that draw spectators and photographers: Thor's Well, Spouting Horn, Loki's Revenge and nearby Devil's Churn. A treat for the eyes and ears.
The Cape itself rises to just over 800 feet, is the highest point accessible by automobile on the Oregon coast and is the perfect venue for whale watching and unbeatable scenic vistas.
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I have tried many times to get a good picture with the Spouting Horns at Depoe Bay. The Spouting Horns are holes in the rocky shoreline that lead to a short tunnel that opens to the ocean. At high tide, the waves build until a bigger one comes along, and hits that tunnel with force, and then water spouts from the holes. The sun happened to be at the right place to form a rainbow when I took this.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 24-85mm Nikon
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Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
King tides have been all along the Oregon coast this weekend. Mark & I drove out to the coast to witness the power for ourselves. This is a spouting horn on Cape Perpetua!
Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
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Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
Decided to walk across the bridge instead of riding and enjoy the gorgeous morning scenery from this arch bridge.
Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
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Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
A shot taken while shooting the Well with Bluey just before we got hammered by a freak wave. I have never once shot this location without getting wet. This time, I was sure I was going to make it as no wave had threatened us up until this point, but as usual...Thor just won't let me leave dry. For some reason I always have a hard time processing images from this location. This one took a little more attention than I would normally give an image but I really wanted to save it. Our Southern Coast workshop will be stopping here in September and it is starting to fill up. We will also be visiting Cape Kiwanda as well as many other great locations along this beautiful coastline.
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Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
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Thor's Well at Cape Perpetua on the central Oregon Coast is one of the most incredible sights I think I've ever seen, and I grew up less than 50 miles north of this spot. I went down there this morning just after sunrise to see what I could find. The tide was coming up steadily and it turned out to be exactly the right time and tide level to get Thor to show off.
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Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
Leaving Newport, OR, destination, Florence, OR.
Beautiful day, beautiful challenging ride through the Cape Perpetua scenic region. Two steep climbs along the coast.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Spouting Horn is a blowhole located on the southern coast of Kauai in the Koloa district. This area of Kauai is known for its crashing waves (nearby Poipu translates to "crashing". These waves erode lava rocks on the coastline which can create narrow openings, as is the case with Spouting Horn. With every wave, water shoots upward when it is forced through an opening and creates a sound suggestive of hissing. The spray can shoot as high as 50 feet in the air. The original Hawaiian name was puhi, meaning blowhole. The Spouting Horn is a part of the Koloa Heritage Trail, a 10-mile trail in the Koloa district.
According to Hawaiian folklore, a giant lizard (“mo’o” in the Hawaiian language) once protected this area of the island. One day, a young man named Liko was swimming in a body of water, but the giant lizard saw Liko as danger, so she attacked him. Liko then jumped into the ocean, luring the lizard in the water. Liko then swam through a small lava tube in the rocks leading to the surface. The lizard followed Liko and got stuck in the lava tube, or blowhole. Today, you can hear the lizard's roar every time the Spouting Horn Blowhole blasts into the air.
Don't you just want to find out how deep the well runs and how the water keeps draining out into the ocean? I do, too. It didn't matter how long I stood here leaning on my tripod, the rise and fall of the water as the tide comes up is mesmerizing. Thor's Well, Cape Perpetua, Oregon, November 2012.
This spouting horn is located in Cook's Chasm near Thor's Well on the Oregon coast. Here's the detail about what a spouting horn is: A spouting horn is actually a small sea cave with an opening at the top, carved by countless crashing waves into the more rugged sections of the coast. When a big or powerful wave crashes into the cave - often seen during storms, or at high tide - the water is forced through the opening as a big spray, sometimes accompanied by a loud hiss.
Fellow photographer braving the ocean waves to get a close-up shot of Thor's Well. I am happy to report that she made it back onto the shore safely, and her camera was still working!
We had a “King Tide” along the Oregon coast last weekend. Gaia and I were in Depoe Bay to catch the action at the Spouting Horn. Some of the bigger spouts gave us a rainbow. My camera got bathed in seawater a couple of times, but it survived intact.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 24-85mm Nikon
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The Spouting Horn is in the same location as Thor's Well. It's like a geyser of salt water, usually only seen at high tide. It was going crazy this day with the higher waves and surf.
I was going to try to photograph this at sunrise, when it would be backlit, but Stan suggested sunset. Glad I took his suggestion! The sun hit the spot where the water spouts just perfectly and created a rainbow. Capturing it wasn't easy, as it formed in the droplets after the water spout died down. I took about 30 shots and one or two had the rainbow AND the spout. Having a polarizer helped as well!