coast

Huge seas battered the coast of Co. Donegall around the headland at Malin Head. I waited until the light warmed up towards sunset and adopted a position that shouted Summer to me with nodding pink thrift in the foreground cliff top grasses.

The town of Elk on the Mendocino Coast has several nice viewpoints. I decided to try my luck at this point for sunrise yesterday. I would have liked to get closer to the edge, but it's fenced off. Still a nice scene. Any thoughts are welcome.

Another drone view of Cape Kiwanda, this time looking down into what I call the bowl where I shot (on foot) later that evening.

Cape Kiwanda is my favorite spot on the Oregon Coast . The sandstone formation doesn't look special from the beach - you have to hike up onto it to find the cool stuff. We spent a couple days here, these are from our first night. I was lucky to have it to myself on this mid-week evening.

My wife and I were at first a bit disappointed that our last full day of a week long vacation in Oregon was a stormy. We ended up having one of our nicest walks on this beach just south of Cannon. A bit of rain made it a fast and exciting return, but didn't result in an actual soaking. Of course...

Here is Part II of my series of Wellington's southern coastline. We lived in Island Bay in 2015 and this was certainly our favorite spot on the coast. We also had the best apartment, a self-contained unit made from a converted garage. It was practically on the water and you could hear the waves...

While I was waiting for the light show to begin over the little waterfall that I wanted to shoot, I turned around and saw the clouds lighting up behind me. I figured I had a few minutes, so I ran up the hill and looked for a reasonable composition to take advantage. For those familiar with the...

I know it's Wednesday and there's a waterfall here, but I'm starting a thread anyway... This is a small waterfall on the Sonoma Coast in Northern California, located in Salt Point State Park. It has become somewhat iconic and while I've visited it before I'd never shot it. It is normally shot...

Last Sunday as I was shooting the Elephant Seals it was about 45 mins before sunset and there was some cool clouds and a potential for a good sunset. I knew that the Elephant Seals would be too dark along the sand to make a good foreground subject and there wasn't a lot of cool rocks at the...

While shooting the Elephant Seals on Sunday north of San Simeon I noticed that while the seals were lounging up on the beach that the birds were hanging out down at the waters edge. So I stopped from the shooting the seals a few minutes to capture the birds. I meant to put this in for Winged...

Very early morning on a drive up the coast this last weekend I saw this view as I drove around a bend on the Pacific Coast Highway. I had to do a quick pull over and stop and back up a bit as I really liked the palm trees almost disappearing into the marine layer. This is south of Santa Barbara...

We had some nice weather on the Mendocino coast Saturday, so I went for a hike with my Dad along Alder Creek just north of Point Arena. The area is still green with lots of flowers. This was my favorite scene, with an S-curve in the creek leading to a farm with the hills behind it. Any thoughts...

Sand Point, Olympic NP coast.

Hey guys! Since the photo capturing business is slow, i got some time to work the winter shots, this one is from January, taken during storm at Dor beach, the sky and the waves look kinda ortonish because of the heavy wind and spray in the air, pretty tough shooting conditions, but the view was...

Sand-Point-B-(369)-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Sep 1, 2018 at 6:07 AM I like the aerial perspective I got from the hill at the end of Sand Point in Olympic NP. Ten portrait orientation shots stitched in Camera Raw. Click photo for larger version.

I'll post more on this trip later, but had to throw this up. Just got back from 3 wonderful days at Sand Point in Olympic NP. Foggy the whole time, but at least no smoke. Having this little family pass us as they foraged down the beach was for sure the highlight. Luckily I was carrying my tripod...

It never gets dark in Iceland in mid-June. Dusk is about as dark as it gets. Arnarstapi is on the western peninsula south of Kirkjufell. We spent a lot of time here and some of it just to enjoy the beauty.

I got a chance to stop by at this beach for sunset last Friday, it wasn't a great sunset that evening-but this place is too good for any conditions!, tried different shots there and this is a long exposure I tried with 10 stop ND.