We came to Oregon to visit our kids in Portland, but the coast has a way of calling you farther. Just south of Haystack Rock, at Arch Cape, the evening light began to soften, and the tide moved in slow rhythm against the sea stacks.
As the sun slipped toward the horizon, I wandered down the beach and found a quiet alignment—a narrow opening between two dark rocks framing a distant formation beyond. The fading light burned low on the right, while the sea stacks stood steady, and the coastal hill on the left held the balance between shadow and glow.
For a few minutes, everything felt suspended—wind, water, light—and I simply waited for the elements to fall into place.
A note about the GFX: I used a 65:24 crop as my compositional guide while photographing. The GFX sensor offers tremendous flexibility for cropping, and in this case, I stayed true to the composition I envisioned in the moment.
