Coastal Forest Size:30x45 mostly because I assumed I

mostly because I assumed I would never get the chance to photograph it

Survival here depends on blending in rather than hiding

those shared systems shift together

and very little sense of scale when you first step into it

thick and muscular

Coastal Forest Size:30x45 mostly because I assumed IOregon Coast, Oregon This photograph was made on a rainy day near the Oregon coast, hiking upstream through a forest already saturated by hours of steady rain. I had spent the previous days focused on the ocean, but I kept turning inland, drawn toward the sound of moving water. Where I grew up in the Texas Panhandle, running water is rare. Creeks like this dont exist. That absence stays with you. It makes scenes like this feel less familiar and more