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Scenes From the Oregon Shore, 2021

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Selecting favorite photographs isn’t easy, but here are a few essential scenes from central and northern Oregon’s exposed, outer shores.

April 25 (previously appeared in Focusing on the Details: Thatched Barnacles)

Intimate view in a niche in a mussel bed niche
Mature thatched barnacles


April 28 (previously appeared in A Quiet Moment in the Ulva Garden)

Sunrise on the Ulva rock garden (foreground); beyond tidepoos and large rocks jutting skyward; beyond that the open see and a lightly colored horizon
The soft kiss of dawn


April 28

Corallina and a sprig of Osmundea


April 28

Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta


May 25 (previously appeared in Keep Walking, On the Northern Oregon Shore)

A strange sandstone tower-like outcrop jutting out of beach sand; headland in the distance, surf zone to the right, cliffs to the left
Headlands exert a gravity all their own (an odd tower jutting up out of the sand has a similar effect)


May 26 (mussels, left); May 27 (nudibranch, right)


June 25

Moody shore


July 22

A meeting of sister ecosystems


July 22

Surfgrass and beyond


July 22

Because there’s never too much Pisaster


July 23

And if my favorite is a pair of Ligia, what of it?


September 26

Purple urchins


This selection ignores my favorite sea wrack scenes, which can be found at Wrack Line Retrospective, 2021.

Here’s to bountiful upwellings in the year ahead!

Favorite Images of 2021


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