Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific Most photographers don't go down

Most photographers don't go down this side of the trail

Sea grass in the foreground

on the hike out

This isn't that

they build into something much bigger than either one alone

Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific Most photographers don't go downThis is the photograph I waited fifteen years to take. Fifteen years ago I saw Scott's photograph of this lens for the first time. The way he'd handled the light, the way the lens itself became the architecture of the frame I remember standing in front of it and thinking that I hoped, eventually, I might be good enough to be allowed to make a photograph like this one. I didn't say it out loud. I'm not sure I even fully said it to myself. But the