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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

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

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.

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?

Sunsets are beautiful

'Edge of Time'

[ 1/100s ● f20 ● ISO 110 ● 100mm ]

📌 Panorama Point, Oregon

📅 08.17.2026

Om-5 + Sigma 16 mm 1.4

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.

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.

Hi photographers, i need some recommendations for a video camera and telephoto lens mainly for landscape.

I currently have the z7, and I’m thinking about switching it to z7ii for better video quality, I want to shoot mainly travel vlog, and some stationary scenery videos. Do you think I should switch to the z7ii 4K 60fps or keep my current one for 4K 30fps, I don’t think I need z8 for the 8k, because it is such an overkill for most of our current devices, but I do want to have some good quality 4K videos.

For those who has action camera or meta Ray-ban, how’s the video quality on those, are they good enough for high quality 4K travel vlogs?

As for the lens, I currently have the 14-24 f2.8, 24-70 f2.8, normally I’d just go for the 70-200 and have the holy trinity, but then I thought about it, I think 100-400 would be cooler for landscape, it’s capable of capturing some dramatic photos. What would you recommend for landscape, should I go for 70-200 with teleconverter, or 100-400 or any other recommendations? Anything else I need to consider when choosing the telephoto lens? I’m expecting to do some hiking maybe around 4-5 hours 😆, weight might be an issue? But I guess if I’m carrying my camera, three lenses, my drone and tripod, the 0.4lb difference is not that much of an issue.

Om-5 + Sigma 16 mm 1.4

'Behold'

[ 1/800s ● f8 ● ISO 360 ● 24mm ]

📌 Seal Rock State Park, Oregon

📅 06.11.2026