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| Memories of Summer, Brookings, Oregon (c) Darlene Lyon Kruse - All Rights Reserved |
Let me say, straight up, from the beginning, that this is not the best photograph I've ever made, not even the best I made on that particular day. But it reminds me of a sunny, fun day I spent on the Oregon coast. Today, here in Ashland, it is wet and gray. We are experiencing the first storm of the season, & it's a doozy. Clouds hang low on the mountains. It's too wet to get out to photograph. The possibility of snow on Siskiyou Pass. A taste of what's to come. And when I started looking at photographs for my blog this weekend, this photo just said what I felt -- I'm not ready for winter -- I want more 75 degree, sunny days before diving into umbrellas, jackets, gloves and boots.
This photograph was made last summer (June 30) when I was on a scouting trip with David Lorenz Winston, looking for locations for a summer coastal workshop we were doing together. On the beach near the Port of Brookings, the Banana Belt of the Oregon coast. A bit of history: On a photo trip here in the mid-1990s with a photographer-friend, we watched a dead whale (gray whale if I remember correctly) being buried right at this same stretch of beach (somewhere I have slides of a worker digging a trench and then burying the whale). Anyway, the family was nowhere to be seen but there was something in all the beach toys, towels , flip flops etc that appealed to me. And the warmth and color definitely appeal on this gray, drizzly, autumn day in Southern Oregon.
Metadata: Photographed with Nikon D300. 24-70mm f/2.8 lens at 70mm (35-mm equivalent = 105mm). ISO 200. 1/350 at f/6.7
