Posted by Marc Adamus on December 29, 2006 at 5:05 PM
I visted this location on Oregon's coast more than twenty five times over two years when the tide was in just the right range, surrounding these jagged monoliths with turbulent waters. Waiting, hoping, visualizing what I believed could happen. This - and an even more dramatic landscape version (still to come), was what I had visualized all that time. The skies and waves finally cooperated allowing me this rare image atop a 80-foot rock spike on the edge of the Pacific. Getting there and back required some tricky wading the surf and dodging a few large breakers smashing into the lower rocks. Thanks for commenting.
5D, 17-40 at 23mm, 2-stop hard GND, blended top of distant rock, 1/3 sec. at F20 due to DOF, ISO 250.
Posted by Rick Lundh on December 29, 2006 at 5:53 PM
Great color, great effort, good action, good comp. To me, the first one you posted from here is pretty sweet. Hard to top that one.
Posted by Marc Adamus on December 29, 2006 at 6:08 PM
I don't have a preference between the two. The other one was from a different location about 100 yards away. The two shots are so different it's hard to compare. The sky is way better in this one but the wave action is more entertaining in the other. This was much more difficult to capture than the first. In any case, I'm done with this area for a while. I've spent almost every coast trip for the past six months trying to capture this place. I'm glad to have finally gotten what I came for and am looking forward to other things.
Posted by Rick Lundh on December 29, 2006 at 6:43 PM
Dont get me wrong...if you threw this in the trash, I'd take it out and be proud to call it my own
Posted by Marc Adamus on December 29, 2006 at 6:58 PM
Rick, evidently the folks in the Nature's Best Photography Competition liked the other one as much as you. They gave it a "Photo of the Week" award. First time I'd ever entered that contest too. I heard about it from some people over here on the PNWNP forum.
Posted by Rick Lundh on December 29, 2006 at 7:07 PM
That doesn't suprise me. Congrats
Posted by Dave Simmerman on December 30, 2006 at 1:13 AM
From one Nature's Best Photography Picture of the Week winner to another....Congrats well deserved!
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on December 30, 2006 at 1:21 AM
This is absolutely awesome, Marc! I didn't even get to see a sunset during the 3 days I was there over xmas. It definitely pays to be persistent.
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on December 30, 2006 at 1:50 AM
This is really powerful with shape and form, Marc. The sky is really perfect for this one. Only nit is the dark outline on that middle jaggy rock and the white-ish halo in the waters' edge just above it. It's very subtle and maybe jpeg compression related but wanted to point that out.
Can't imagine the effort to get out on this spire of rock.
Posted by Tim Goodspeed on December 30, 2006 at 2:31 AM
Marc, well done. Great color and comp. I see scenes all the time where something is missing. Your patients and perseverance to come back over and over is incredible and obviously pays off.
Posted by Erik Lundh on December 30, 2006 at 11:32 AM
Marc,
Now this is cool! I love the way the crashing wave mimicks and flows with the sky. I was going to say I think it has a bit of a color cast to it but It's just the illumination of the sunset.
Discussion
10 replies5D, 17-40 at 23mm, 2-stop hard GND, blended top of distant rock, 1/3 sec. at F20 due to DOF, ISO 250.
Can't imagine the effort to get out on this spire of rock.
Now this is cool! I love the way the crashing wave mimicks and flows with the sky. I was going to say I think it has a bit of a color cast to it but It's just the illumination of the sunset.