Robin Mae for Into the Wild II
Added 2017-04-24 22:55:37 +0000 UTCIts been a long and particularly harsh winter for the North West. Its funny because when I first started talking to Nicole about moving out here I may have promised that it almost never snows, and that we won't have to dig our car out ever again...that was partly true. Despite the surprising amount of snow Portland and Seattle both got this year we had to do no digging.
But with an unprecedented amount of rain and snow has come an unprecedented amount of difficulty to get out to nature. The roads through the mountains, the trails through the waterfalls, and the paths through the forests were all frozen, flooded, or both. Numerous trips we stopped short of our original goals, and found alternative places to shoot than the ones we really wanted. We have a lot of places to go back to.
I went out with Robin and Amber to Sauvi Island, a nude beach on an island in Oregon to do a shoot, and found that the beach was pretty much completely gone. The crazy amounts of rain had pushed the water levels up and up and up until there was not much beach left to enjoy, so we made the best of it. Found some beautiful forest, a tiny amount of sand, and shot some amazing photos in the last of light on a warm winters day.
I love how in this part of the country when one thing doesn't work out there is always another equally beautiful place to explore usually within 100 yards of hiking. We can always create.
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