Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Arlen on June 20, 2022, 12:45:07 am
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Heceta Head, along with its iconic and historic lighthouse on the mid-Oregon Pacific coast, has one of the most scenic views of the area’s rocky headlands.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700449/original.jpg)
Some of the intertidal zone rock formations are small enough to be periodically submerged by breaking waves.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700457/original.jpg)
Other seastacks are huge, and some of them attract a variety of seabirds.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700453/original.jpg)
The sides of the seastacks are sometimes covered with nesting birds, as they were when I visited the area two weeks ago. The predominant species were black and white common murres,
and the larger, jet black Brandt’s cormorants.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700451/original.jpg)
When the angle and the lighting are right, iridescent blue ‘gular pouches’ (skin patches) can be seen on the “chins” below the beaks of breeding cormorants.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700454/original.jpg)
Some birds choose to nest on precarious ledges with precipitous drops to the sea below,
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700455/original.jpg)
where the swirling waters would likely drown any youngsters that stumbled off the edge before they were able to fly.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172700450/original.jpg)
But the top of the seastack seems to serve as a landing pad, where birds of a feather tend to hang together, and socializing is the main activity. At least that's the way it looked to me.
(click on attached image below)
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VERY well done!
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a paradise for both birds and photographers!
The second one ( water flowing down the rock ) very precise captures the process in one photo.
well done...
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Thank you, David and Pieter. I appreciate the feedback.