Coastal Forest Size:30x45 This approach sacrifices conventional softness

This approach sacrifices conventional softness and easy depth of field

This image leaves my custody entirely

and luminosity were pushed well beyond realism to create a heightened

only more respect

Survival here depends on blending in rather than hiding

Coastal Forest Size:30x45 This approach sacrifices conventional softnessOregon Coast, Oregon This photograph was made on a rainy day near the Oregon coast, hiking upstream through a forest already saturated by hours of steady rain. I had spent the previous days focused on the ocean, but I kept turning inland, drawn toward the sound of moving water. Where I grew up in the Texas Panhandle, running water is rare. Creeks like this dont exist. That absence stays with you. It makes scenes like this feel less familiar and more