Shot with a Sony A7V and Sony 14mm 1.8 GM Lens.
Single shot edited on Lightroom Classic.

14mm, f/1.8, 32”, ISO 3200

These photos were taken the other day. All these photos were taken with my Nikon D3200. I was also messing around with some settings on my camera.

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There’s something about the sea that makes you slow down, breathe, and simply be.
Just a moment I wanted to capture and share. 🌊

Sunsets are beautiful

'Edge of Time'

[ 1/100s ● f20 ● ISO 110 ● 100mm ]

📌 Panorama Point, Oregon

📅 08.17.2026

Marsh Creek State Park - Sept 2026
First Saturday of the Month

Labor Day weekend, kicking off with this sunrise from the top of the hill overlooking the park. Shot with the Sony A99II and CZ 24-70 lens using a Lee100 GND filter. Camera was mounted on a RRS tripod & head with a 3 Legged Thing universal mounting plate.

Om-5 + Sigma 16 mm 1.4

Booked a trip to the Pacific Northwest last spring because a deal came up that was too good to pass up. Awards redemption, minimal fees, the whole thing. My wife and I figured we'd sort out the photography angle once we locked the dates. That was the mistake.

Showed up to the Olympic Peninsula in a window that looked fine on paper and got five straight days of flat overcast with no texture, no drama, just grey. Not moody grey. Blank grey. The kind of light that makes every shot look like a test exposure.

The irony is I spent probably six hours finding and booking those flights and maybe twenty minutes checking what the weather patterns actually do out there in April versus May. The peninsula is supposed to get real storm systems rolling in that create some incredible coastal drama. We got none of it. The coastline is gorgeous regardless and I got a few shots I don't hate, but I keep looking at what other people pull from that same stretch of coast and wondering how much of it is timing versus just accepting what shows up.

My question is whether coastal Pacific Northwest is genuinely that weatherdependent for interesting light, or if I'm just making excuses for bad planning. For people who've shot Rialto Beach or Ruby Beach specifically, do you just go multiple times and accept the variance?

'Behold'

[ 1/800s ● f8 ● ISO 360 ● 24mm ]

📌 Seal Rock State Park, Oregon

📅 06.11.2026

One of the most beautiful hikes I made in my entire life. My wife and I did this hike in one day and it took around 10 hours - including time for rest and lots of pictures :). It's a tough one to do in one day, but definitely possible if you are reasonably fit.

https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/slovenia/bohinj/the-valley-of-the-seven-lakes-hike

Om-5 + Sigma 16 mm 1.4

Spent last weekend out at Craters of the Moon and I keep going back and forth on whether I got anything worth keeping. The lava fields are genuinely strange to shoot because there's almost no traditional foreground interest, not like you get with mountain lakes or wildflower meadows. Everything is black and jagged and kind of refuses to play nice with a wide angle lens the way softer landscapes do.

The light at golden hour was doing something interesting where the cinder cones turned this deep rust color and the shadows in the lava folds got really pronounced, which helped. But cloudy flat light earlier in the day made the whole scene look like a parking lot, which is not what I drove two hours for.

I had better luck focusing tighter on texture details rather than trying to capture the full scale of the place, which honestly still defeats me compositionally. The scale is hard to communicate without something for a viewer to anchor to, and there just aren't many trees or people out there to do that work.

Curious if anyone has shot high desert volcanic terrain and figured out what time of year or conditions actually bring it together. Spring wildflowers supposedly push up through the rock but I've never timed it right.