A gentle but incessant cold breeze swept over the wet sand that smelled like the ocean but the brisk walk from the parking lot made it comfortably warm. The sunset was still thirty minutes away and I kept taking photographs of these sea stacks along the way even though there was not much to frame unique photographs.
The thirty minutes to sunset felt very long but it eventually ended and the tide did not come in too far. These rocks clothed in algae looked dark on the face away from the sunlight, the ocean water kept pushing me far from the sea stacks. And then all of a sudden without forewarning the wind stopped while the weak low tide swells crawled over the sand and around these rocks for the final photograph of the day.
Long before the sunset, the first stop in the journey - a lighthouse, specifically the North Head Lighthouse on the north coast of the Columbia River facing the Pacific. These wispy clouds were already here when I got here but took longer to travel south towards the sea stacks of Canon Beach. As the sun crawled the southern sky, I saw this person walk around the lighthouse looking down, presumably to avoid the sun. I thought of waiting for them to walk out of my frame but I’m glad I didn’t.
