Light from Within
Very rarely, when the lowest of tides falls at sunset on just the right week or two each year when the sun sets at the end of this enormous sea cave on the Oregon coast can one witness this event of light and wonder, as huge waves rip down the 20 meter wide tunnel and explode onto the shore at your feet, illuminated in the glow from the mist in the opening beyond. I was very lucky to have been here on one such evening, a few years ago.
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Bonciu Toma 2 months ago
wonderful colors, light, exposure, framing ... everything!!!
Aurora Pintore 4 months ago
FANTASTIC PICTURE !!!!
Sam Chinigo 4 months ago
Love the "fire & ice" quality of this. I can feel the temperature difference when I read from one part to the other. Love it.
Robert Burns 4 months ago
your cave photos are some of my favorite, not that i have a least favorite :)
Roland Cuypers 6 months ago
Great light, great mood
congrats
Selim Kaya 8 months ago
This photograph is very very nice like your other photographs. All is my favorites:)
Jay Rosenberg 8 months ago
Terrific! Magical moment.
markcor 8 months ago
stunning shot
Prayudi Sudirman 10 months ago
piece of art.....
Yohanes Kurnia Irawan 10 months ago
execellent....great job & nice light moment...
kianoosh jafari 10 months ago
magic light,great shot.
Shaynie Chaloupek 10 months ago
WOW. Praise God for His incredible architecture! What a brilliant creator we have! :D Thank you for capturing it!
Norbert Maier 10 months ago
THIS is truly one of the most beautiful images I've ever seen!!
Amir reza 10 months ago
magical place, great shot
Behnam Safarzadeh 10 months ago
amazing shot
Nastaran Sweetbrier 10 months ago
Really breathtaking
Congrat!
Bobby Bong 10 months ago
WOW
dewi dewi 11 months ago
wew... very amazing. Masterpiece
Farshad Davari 11 months ago
Awesome
Krzysztof Karpinski 11 months ago
excellent
Henrik Knudsen 11 months ago
Great shot and awesome location
Jure Batagelj 11 months ago
Another excelent job! Great cave!
Pete Bridgwood 11 months ago
Compositional mastery and wonderful rendering.
joshmann 11 months ago
Superb photo!!

This scene reminds me the 'Lost' haha..
Nastaran Sweetbrier 11 months ago
Wow!Fantastic!

congratulation !
Izidor Gasperlin 11 months ago
Masterpiece!
Philip Stewart 11 months ago
Spectacular capture Marc!
N.Bautista 11 months ago
Superb picture is awesome .. the light .. a beautiful image
regards

Michael Raghian 11 months ago
Totally surreal!
FARID JUNIOR 11 months ago
BELÍSSIMA FOTO! WONDERFULL!!!!
Marcus Björkman 11 months ago
Outstanding!!
Fatih Gürel 11 months ago
super&awesome
Raymó 11 months ago
Awesome Marc!!! bless Ray ;-)
Mark Berkery 11 months ago
A wonderful capture of a magical moment - bracketed. ((:
Edy Santosa 11 months ago
A very interesting and inspiring image you've made, you're the best Marc.
Best regard, Edy
OSMAN M?LETL? 11 months ago
wow...amazing
Adam Elliott 11 months ago
Wow I think I saw this a while back in 'Digital Photo' magazine? Fantastic work, I now appreciate this even more .
afa mohba 11 months ago
wow...amazing
Rainer Brunotte 11 months ago
wow what a shot ! and what a place ! love how the highlights in the water pull the focus towards the light. great shot!
Brunna Lin 11 months ago
Magnificent capture my friend! <3
Standa R. 11 months ago
Super
siavash_shojaee 11 months ago
i like it
Jan Gravekamp 11 months ago
Awesome!
Ben Goossens 11 months ago
Wooow:-)
Iñigo Barandiaran 11 months ago
Amazing image, one of the best I've seen in 1x. Congratulations, amazing work! :)
Kristjan Rems 11 months ago
Superb and magical image!!
mohamad abasi 11 months ago
excelent shot
Tobias Bräuning 11 months ago
Very impressive!
Mac Danzig 11 months ago
you know how I feel about this one, Marc... one of your most expressive shots...
Marc Adamus  My favorite from the coast I have done, definitely. I tried to order this up for when we were there. I haven't seen it since though!
Helle Lorenzen 11 months ago
Wow.... amazing with the water flow to the beautiful light....;-)
bam busa 11 months ago
Beautiful work !
Niels Christian Wulff 11 months ago
Love your work..............!!
/Wulff
asit 11 months ago
OMG..! I love all YOur work
Jeannette Oerlemans 11 months ago
Wow! This is so beautiful!!
Geir Jartveit 11 months ago
Amazing!!!
Marie-Louise 11 months ago
Takes my breath away!
Arnaud Montagard 11 months ago
OMG!
Antonio Grambone 11 months ago
Hi Marc, spectacular image... do not add anything, sincere compliments.
Greetings, Antonio G.
Tammy Bergström 11 months ago
Fabulous light, comp, and scen eMarc!

/Tammy
Henrik Just 11 months ago
Amazing capture, Marc !

Congrats !

Regards

Henrik
Explore 11 months ago
Love it!
Very nice, color and nice water.
Kent.
John Tsilidis 11 months ago
Amazing!!
Henry Trust 11 months ago
Great shot.. Superb..
Leyman 11 months ago
This is so beautiful ...
Michal Zvara 11 months ago
waw!!!
Egbert M. Reinhold 11 months ago
Priceless moment.
Dark Kadath 11 months ago
Breathtaking !
Jerome Zakka Bajjani 11 months ago
A rare picture. Really unique.
Marei 11 months ago
I love this work. What a wonderful place, Marc.
The colors are very very beautiful.
Congratulation.
Best wishes, Marei
Photonook 11 months ago
Oh I love it!!!!
hardibudi 11 months ago
OMG.. amazing!!!
barbara 11 months ago
no words! are enough to describe this, all we can do is watch and stare.
:-)
jimmy hoffman 11 months ago
Impressive work,Marc!
Hannes Cmarits 11 months ago
so beautiful. Great!!!
Harry Eggens 11 months ago
Breathtakingly beautiful!

Congratulations!

Thanks for the excellent description, Marc.

Best regards, Harry
Wim Schuurmans 11 months ago
Very nice movement in the water and beautiful colours... Wel done!
Suren Manvelyan 11 months ago
Absolutely breathtaking shot!
Interplay of colors and dynamic are great!
Joël Monster 11 months ago
Great mood!!!
Yuan Atmojo 11 months ago
beautiful! salam senyum -u1-
Richard Spurdens 11 months ago
Great image
Marcin Szymanski 11 months ago
Great shot!
Istvan Lichner 11 months ago
Amazing shot!
Ovik 11 months ago
U the best Marc...love all ur work...
Sven Fennema 11 months ago
This is totally amazing, the longer you watch it the better it gets
Joe Musselwhite 11 months ago
Marc is the BEST landscape photographer out there in my book!!!

I bought a huge print from Marc several years ago and I'm stunned every time I look at it.

Great capture here Marc!!! I just don't believe you can take a bad picture.
Arnaud Montagard 11 months ago
Outstanding !!!
Tomas Sereda 11 months ago
amazing photo
King Douglas 11 months ago
Must be an amazing experience. Excellent.
Ryscemara 11 months ago
Beautiful! 5*!
Niloufar Hosein zadeh 11 months ago
Top photo in extra time of tides fall .. May be we never seen this beauty view .
Really enjoyed but i'm sure you'r enjoyment was more ..
Be lucky in landscape photography always to show us more beauty of creation.
Amazing shot
Yan Zhang 11 months ago
Marc, this is one of my favorite images from your collections. A great idea with the perfect implementation, love it.
Vadim Balakin 11 months ago
amazing photo!
omid golzar 11 months ago
beautiful
frank ReBeL 11 months ago
OMG... what can I say... so beautiful !!!
:o: darteF pristov 11 months ago
very impressive!
Martin Marcisovsky 11 months ago
perfect!!!
John Colbensen 11 months ago
Truly awesome...in lack of better words :)
Peter Kuralt 11 months ago
What else to say here. Absolutely amazing.
Cusnir Dragos 11 months ago
Superb photo.You are very lucky that you saw something amazing like that.Once in a life time opportunity and we could see it though the you photo.Good job
Made Saputra 11 months ago
amazing full
Ludovit Sabo 11 months ago
beautiful photo
volkan topal 11 months ago
+++
Massimo Della Latta 11 months ago
Splendida
Me Town 11 months ago
dreaming ?
Floriana Barbu 11 months ago
I'm breathless , I have never seen such beauty .
Jef Van den Houte 11 months ago
Great light and tones
Wings 11 months ago
well thought out man
Corneanu Daniel 11 months ago
Well done !
Great tones !
Andrew George 11 months ago
Speechless!
Elva Rahaviadhy 11 months ago
amazing....
Wolfgang 11 months ago
Great capture and well thought through
Barbara Read 11 months ago
Amazing!!!
Christoph Hessel 11 months ago
a great image! Wonderful
Christoph
Dmitry Laudin 11 months ago
Fantastic
Matjaz Cater 11 months ago
Impressive capture!
Dare Turnsek 11 months ago
Just magic :) ... (they are my only wish in usa: oregon - washington - than jump to BC)
Jacob Tuinenga 11 months ago
This is really awesome, what an dynamic. super.
rachmad sofyan 11 months ago
Woww !! wonderful .......... :)
ali hanaei 11 months ago
Truly exceptional.
aaron otto 11 months ago
I could get lost in this.
KPK 11 months ago
MOST amazing!
Lise De Serres 11 months ago
Evereything is perfect here.. lightning, compo, perspective!
Fantastic shot!!
Pavan Kaul 11 months ago
Stunning work Marc!
willem 11 months ago
This is a exceptional beautiful image, very well done Mark....
dimas danny satria 11 months ago
amazing.... in the cave??? wow, great landscape...
Daniel Portal 11 months ago
wow Marc, this is incredible, I'm speechless

George Doupas 11 months ago
wonderful
Berthy Harlanto 11 months ago
wow...its Amazing pic...!!!like it...
VDN 11 months ago
What a shot, a-mazing moment, thanks for sharing, congratulations!!!
Michael Latman 11 months ago
I like it!
Reathel Geary 11 months ago
This reminds me of images of key hole. Where on the coast is this? (I live in Eugene, OR).

Regarding the photo the exposure is phenomenal, it must have been a tad tricky to get the shutter speed you wanted with that light. Thanks for sharing, this is a wonderful photo.
Marc Adamus  Hi Reathel, thanks for your comment. This is located at Cape Kiwanda, although it's not very much like the old keyhole. In size, there's no comparison. It's tough to tell from the wide angle here, but that hole is 20 meters wide and 60 meters long!

The image was made from exposures combined to control the dynamic range of light.
Boyan  I recognized the location immediately, have made lousy images from this very spot half a dozen times (once in the company of a half-decomposed sea lion carcass), but it has never crossed my mind for this composition. Guess this is why I don't try to make a living with photography. My guess is this is early fall or late spring, when the son is somewhat south and lines up with the opening. Nowdays the sun sets too far north for this. Great artistry to make this happen.
Reathel Geary  Thanks, and I still find it amazing what we can do in post.
Harrison Strauss 11 months ago
Truly exceptional.
Jenya Saifutdinov 11 months ago
Mysteriously!
Dr. Akira TAKAUE 11 months ago
Amazing...simply and deeply amazing...I'm really impresseddddddddd.
Hady Moslehi 11 months ago
This is the opportunity... to see a scene which I'll never see it with my eyes. great scene, thanks Marc for being there at the right time.
Thanks for the Photo
Regards, Hady
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Equipment
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