Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Storm Series 5 portland oregon and in conditions like these

and in conditions like these

With a background in publishing and years spent documenting the coastline in all conditions

This isn't one wave

all that accumulated energy releases — upward

the Pacific is just motion and foam

Yaquina Head Lighthouse — Storm Series 5 portland oregon and in conditions like theseFive Frames. One Storm. One Morning. Storm days at Yaquina Head don't give you much time. The light changes. The swell shifts. The position of each wave against the lighthouse is different every few minutes. I shot all five of these images in the same window, from the top of Salal Hill the only elevated angle on the headland. Each one is from the same morning, the same conditions, the same position. But each one is a different moment: a different