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“Breaking Rocks”
Description:
At Cape Kiwanda, powerful surf rushes into a sandstone corridor carved by constant wave action. The cliffs here are part of Oregon’s soft, ever-changing coastline where arches collapse, boulders shift, and the Pacific continues its slow, relentless reshaping of the land.
Story:
The Pacific Ocean crashes against the sandstone along the northwestern edge of Cape Kiwanda. These rocks have been shaped, worn, and weakened by the tides for centuries. Their destiny is written in the water. What was once a sandstone arch now lies scattered as boulders, and someday even those will break down into grains of sand.
During low tide, the ocean sometimes retreats so far that it disappears from view. It was on a tide like that when I photographed “Forbidden Way” and “Cathedral (2)”. But in this photograph, the timing was entirely different. I waited for the moment when the sun would pass directly overhead this narrow channel — a brief alignment that only happens near the summer solstice.
For one instant, light poured straight down into the corridor, illuminating the restless water and the fractured stones that shapes it.
-BAP
Location:
McPhillips Beach
Cape Kiwanda
Pacific City, Oregon
45° 13' 19.2'' N, 123° 58' 32.4'' W
Google Map Link
Time: 15:38 PDT
Date: June 12th, 2019
Camera & Settings:
Single shot
Nikon D800E, NIKKOR 14-24 mm f/2.8G, Tripod
ISO 100, 21 mm, f/11, 1/200 sec
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“Breaking Rocks”
Description:
At Cape Kiwanda, powerful surf rushes into a sandstone corridor carved by constant wave action. The cliffs here are part of Oregon’s soft, ever-changing coastline where arches collapse, boulders shift, and the Pacific continues its slow, relentless reshaping of the land.
Story:
The Pacific Ocean crashes against the sandstone along the northwestern edge of Cape Kiwanda. These rocks have been shaped, worn, and weakened by the tides for centuries. Their destiny is written in the water. What was once a sandstone arch now lies scattered as boulders, and someday even those will break down into grains of sand.
During low tide, the ocean sometimes retreats so far that it disappears from view. It was on a tide like that when I photographed “Forbidden Way” and “Cathedral (2)”. But in this photograph, the timing was entirely different. I waited for the moment when the sun would pass directly overhead this narrow channel — a brief alignment that only happens near the summer solstice.
For one instant, light poured straight down into the corridor, illuminating the restless water and the fractured stones that shapes it.
-BAP
Location:
McPhillips Beach
Cape Kiwanda
Pacific City, Oregon
45° 13' 19.2'' N, 123° 58' 32.4'' W
Google Map Link
Time: 15:38 PDT
Date: June 12th, 2019
Camera & Settings:
Single shot
Nikon D800E, NIKKOR 14-24 mm f/2.8G, Tripod
ISO 100, 21 mm, f/11, 1/200 sec
This phone book cover from 2008–2009 documents the arch that occupied the spot where I photographed “Breaking Rocks” a decade afterward.
