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)
April 28 (previously appeared in A Quiet Moment in the Ulva Garden)
April 28
April 28
May 25 (previously appeared in Keep Walking, On the Northern Oregon Shore)
May 26 (mussels, left); May 27 (nudibranch, right)
June 25
July 22
July 22
July 22
July 23
September 26
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!
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Wonderful choices Steve – you’re truly shown us the beauty of this environment throughout the year. Impossible to choose a favorite but somehow your sister ecosystems stole my heart! Happiest of New Years to you and yours.
Thanks, Tina. And so very cool you picked a favorite. I’m sending you my best for wonderful and happy 2022.
Great series, Steve! Appreciate these beauties that I don’t normally see here. š
Thank you, Amy. I wish you a wonderful and happy 2022.
What a wonderful start to the new year by seeing some of my favorite coastline. Thank you Steve!
You are welcome, Anne. My pleasure. I wish you a wonderful and happy 2022.
Wonderful. As a favourite among favourites, I might pick the sister ecosystems. No, wait …
A wonderful 2022 to you and your camera!
Ah, to pick a favorite among favorites. Thanks for trying! Margret, I wish you a wonderful and happy year ahead.
WOW. Great photographs. Absolutely outstanding.
Thank you, John. I wish you a wonderful and happy year ahead.
Thanks for sharing your images from the shore from one of your Oregon neighbors, Steve! I liked the third image landscape and the close up of the sea urchins.
Hi! Forgive me for letting your nice comment slip by me. I apologize. And thank you very much for taking a stab at picking a favorite. And I’m with you, the ones the caught your eye are pretty. The water in that tidepool was so clear and still, the urchins just popped in that light. I wish you a wonderful and happy new year.
It seems that you were captivate with the seaside in 2021. Happy New Year.
Yes I was! Thanks for having a look. And I wish you all the best in the year ahead.
Just found this site. Wow! Love your photographic documentary of the coast. I examine sands under the microscope and enjoy discovering and studying the carbonate remains of the marine life– and trying to figure out what’s what. Great to see the macro photos. Recently, I’ve picked apart the sand from Otter Rock.
Hi there, Kate. Otter Rock! I’m familiar with the location, but I confess I haven’t stopped in for a closed look. I’d love to check out the tide pools in that area sometime. And checking out sand for marine sea life remains! I haven’t ventured into that world, but it sounds interesting. (I do think sometimes about the small organisms that live in beach sands.) As you probably imagine from my posts, I don’t have a dissecting scope. It’s something I daydream about. Have you posted any images of your work with sand? And thanks for your nice note.- Steve
Steve, I love seeing your great selection of pictures for 2021, so beautiful. If I could only choose one favorite, it would be meeting of sister ecosystems!
Hi Sylvia, Thanks for taking a look at my favorites and for trying your hand at picking a favorite. You’re not alone picking that one. I wish you the best in the New Year.- Steve
Thank you.Outstanding photos. Very evocative.
Wishing you bountiful upwellings too !
beautiful shots!
Thank you, Pam. I appreaciate hearing it, and I apologize for letting this slip. Life, eh?