Author: jpallen

#509 – October 2025

jpallen Nature Life , , 7 Comments

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 The photographs are of the same vein of an unpublished photo study I am working on of a book by John Daido Loori (a Zen Buddhist rōshi and photographer) titled, “Hearing with the Eye: Photographs from Point Lobos.”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.’”

1.

Color photograph of a small tide pool, reflecting the rock above and blue sky.
low tide/pool of mountain peaks above/a blue sky

2.

Color photograph of seaweed woven at low tide in an empty tide pool.
shuttle thrown/waves through the warp/rushing in - rushing out

3.

Close up color photograph of a large tree trunk weathered on the beach.
new skin/over old bones/after the storm

4.

Color photograph of seaweed on rock covered in wind blown sand at low tide.
out to sea/wind blown stone/on stone

5.

Color photograph of a large wave splashing over Cape Kwanda with the seagull underneath
high tide/under her wing/a seagull soars
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