Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific Taken during a massive wildfire

Taken during a massive wildfire in Otis

This series has sold more prints than anything else I've made

This isn't that

Most photographers don't go down this side of the trail

This series reached five million views and was picked up by 800 publications

Guiding Light - Yaquina Head Lighthouse pacific Taken during a massive wildfireThis is the photograph I waited fifteen years to take. Fifteen years ago I saw Scott's photograph of this lens for the first time. The way he'd handled the light, the way the lens itself became the architecture of the frame I remember standing in front of it and thinking that I hoped, eventually, I might be good enough to be allowed to make a photograph like this one. I didn't say it out loud. I'm not sure I even fully said it to myself. But the