Offshore | Depoe Bay, Oregon Print Options:Acrylic - Lumachrome - tru life I was on the jetty

I was on the jetty with a long lens and no way to know if what I was watching was going to be the last time anyone ever saw this boat do what she was built to do

Wide Angle

This December day at South Beach Jetty in Newport was her last time in serious surf

This is the moment of collision — the full force of an open-ocean swell meeting the coast at the world's smallest navigable harbor

Offshore | Depoe Bay, Oregon Print Options:Acrylic - Lumachrome - tru life I was on the jettyScale Requires Distance. Not every wave at Depoe Bay is about the impact. The most powerful images are sometimes the ones with enough distance to show scale to make clear what you're looking at and how much ocean is behind it. This was shot during a significant fall swell with enough stand off to let the wave live in the frame to show its shape against the Oregon Coast sky, and its relationship to the land that's been standing in its way for ten