• John Dryden.

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Photographing the Oregon coast during a summer road trip is one of the most fun activities I have ever done. If you have done any research on this kind of trip, the town of Bandon would have come up. The photos of Bandon at sunset and sunrise are genuinely spectacular, especially if you were lucky enough to be there when a storm is clearing. I have visited this beautiful town twice now but booth times during summer, and I can clearly state that the spectacular sky that’s seen in most Bandon shots occurs during a precious few weeks in the fall. Most of the time, the Marine Layer makes the conditions pretty drab during both morning and evening golden hour.

During our second visit, after a completely cloudy sunset, I decided to try my luck at sunrise. My wife took one look through the window and decided to go back to sleep. I decided to venture out alone to the beach and try my luck. The sky was very cloudy, and it was looking like a wash in terms of photography. So I decided to go for a walk along the beach and try to get closer to the sea stacks. As I got closer, I noticed that the clouds were breaking near the horizon, and some color was peaking through. I immediately got into setting up my camera and took some test shots. The problem was that while some light was peaking through, the overall scene was still very flat. I wanted to create some depth to the image and decided to use waves as my leading lines. It took me a couple of tries, but finally, I got one to line up the shot perfectly.

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Bandon beach is a photographers playground. As I first saw this beach I was kind of overwhelmed. Where to start? There are so many subjects to shoot, sea stacks everywhere you look and many tide pools, which can be used as foreground subjects. Unfortunately there where maybe 20 other photographers there at the first evening I was shooting this beach.

The photo I show you here was taken the next morning. First I thought I'd be alone but at around 5am the same 20 photographers arrived again. But still,the beach is so large that it was possible to avoid that group of photographers and get some nice shots in the soft light of dawn.

I hope you like it. This is the only shoot at the west coats where I had some decent clouds and some nice light.

cheers