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The sea touches many shores, and each shore touched is forever changed, for better or for worse. Shifting sands, uprooted trees, even stone can only withstand the barrage for so long. While on the surface, change is obvious; the greater depths show a much more tumultuous battle. It invades every crack and crater; every trench and cave. Molested by the non-discriminatory hand of the waves, wanted or unwanted. With each battle, the erosion of the sea breaks through the unflinching stone. Change is inevitable for a time, but eventually the second stage of infancy arrives, and one fades away as it was born. Only time has seen this battle end to end. Throughout, civilizations have been born and reached death; only to be built upon or simply forgotten. With this, the ever constant crashing continues as it will. With time as its only companion.

Well unfortunately I’ve been quite out of practice. So these photos of my favorite place on the planet don’t necessarily do it justice. Though there are a few dirty gems amongst the mediocrity. Please enjoy these photos from my sleep deprived, mentally unhealthy, and down right dangerous 36 hour trip to Canon Beach, Oregon from Utah.

These are all similarly framed, though I still love them

This one hurts my soul. So close to greatness, to a truly captivating photo. Unfortunately is is slightly blurry, just like my poor broken soul. I am a big fan of the composition though.

As I was preparing to take this photo it began to rain on the southern part of the beach. This took away the nice colors I was looking for but, it did allow me to capture some rainfall on the right side of the photo. Win some, Lose some eh?

I’m so happy I was able to fit this trip into my life, I hope one day to revisit Canon Beach and take photos that show off the true beauty of the coast.

While some of these are my best photos there are a few i cannot currently access due to not being able to turn on my desktop computer at the moment. Please enjoy.

This photo was taken at the top of a tree I climbed, on Easter. I had no where else to go so i went to a popular hiking area just before sunset and got a majority of photos for this post, I am pretty proud of all of them. The one above displays orange moss on a large branch with the sun displayed in the background.

This pretty plant lies just below the branch above. I love the translucence of the leaves showing the shadows and light of its surroundings. Also showing of a nice use of depth of field and the rule of thirds. I also love the colors in the photo, the green of the plant sets it apart from the rest of the image.

Taken at the very peak of the tree, was this glorious landscape. a lens flare the sun on the rule of thirds and the contrast of the sky and ground all come together to cohesively form a beautiful photo. Where this photo slightly falls short is that the horizon is slight of center but also not on the rule of thirds, still a nice photo that I really enjoy.

I love this photo, it shows so many amazing qualities. The rule of thirds, leading lines and an amazing use of lighting and a water bottle. Though this photo does have its faults, a reflection of other cars in the chrome and just barely being able to tell that the camera is reflected off of the Chevrolet logo. Other than that I love this photo.

This photo is definitely the worst of the 5, though it still does have some nicer qualities. The gradient in the sky, the sun on the clouds, and the outline of the bird. Though the photo lacks focus and true composure. With a different lens I might have been able to better capture the moment.