Melissa and I made our annual trip to the Oregon Coast last week. This year we went to a different location in the same month and season as last year. We traveled to Tierra Del Mar near Pacific City with her parents. On one outing we visited Cape Kiwanda at low tide. This is when I took the photographs below, except for the last photo when the ocean spread its wings over the cape at high tide on the day we were leaving. The photographs are of the same vein of an unpublished photo study I am working on of a book by John Daido Loori (a Zen Buddhist rōshi and photographer) titled, “Hearing with the Eye: Photographs from Point Lobos.” The photographs and words presented in his book are “an attempt to enter the hidden universe of the insentient and ‘see things for what else they are.’”
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Exquisite Joe, truly exquisite. So much more to receive in these photos than the naked eye image. Thank you.
Fantastic! How I miss the Oregon coast! Thank you.
These are gifts to the eye and spirit, Joe. Thank you.
Absolutely lovely. I’m so glad you were all able to make it to the coast with the folks!
What a lovely set to wake up to, Joe!
Really special.
I will want to come back to these
Scott
Dear Friends, a heartfelt thank you for your reflections.
Beautiful photos, Joe!