Bandon Beach Rocks!

We stayed six nights at the Bandon Beach Motel in Bandon, Oregon on a cliff overlooking one of the most enchanting, mesmerizing pieces of coastline I have ever discovered.

I shot Bandon Beach at sunrise and sunset, high tide and low tide, foggy and sunny, peaceful and menacing, from cliff side and from surf side.  I became absolutely addicted
to shooting it and unable to stop myself getting another few frames from a different angle.  Like every ten minutes.  I shot nearly 4,000 frames in 16 days.  It’s possible half
those were of this beach.  Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration.

At one point I said to Jeremy (after a particularly long sunset shoot), “I can’t stop shooting those rocks!  I think I may need help!”  He said, “I’m helping!” as he clicked off his last few dozen frames.  Thanks Jer!

Here are 25 shots of Bandon Beach that really rock!

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Some Bridges in Beautiful Oregon

So, Oregon has a few bridges.

Some of them are spectacular.  Some of them are truly marvels of engineering.
This is not NEARLY all the bridges we crossed or saw.  We didn’t capture a single one
passing through Portland.  I found all of these to have interesting shapes.

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Bandon Beach Motel

All of our vacation accommodations were stellar, all of them comfortable.  But I need to give a special shout out to the Bandon Beach Motel, recommended to me by a client who had stayed there, and our home for six nights during vacation.

What a GREAT place!  We had a little kitchen so we could avoid the high cost of eating out each night.  We had two queen beds and plenty of space.  It was clean and the staff very friendly.  And don’t even get me started on the view!

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DSC00299_tonemapped copyIf you can’t get enough of the gorgeous view from the motel, you can walk down
130 stairs to get an up-close look at the ever changing faces of the rock formations.

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