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I always thought of magpies as kind of a scavenger bird and can't say I have ever heard of them doing something like this before. I like the markings on the magpies in your area. The ones I used to see in Utah all the time weren't as distinctive as this one.

Thanks Trent - I just checked and this was shot at 1/3200s. For as many thousands of shot I have taken out along the coast I have never tried shooting that fast before. I have watched the water go shooting past here many times but have never seen details like this before - it's not a set of...

Very cool head-on shot of this pair.

The sidelight really makes the colors pop - beautiful scene.

Thanks Roger - no two swells were even vaguely lose to doing the same thing as they entered the chasm inlet but the sheer variety of shapes that came out of yesterday's session were quite amazing.

Thanks Kurt - Not easy to get a lot of good viewpoints for this without getting clobbered by the spray. I was never able to discern this type of wavelet structure while it was zooming past. I was shooting at 30fps to get this.

Thanks Jameel - I was enjoying a cappuccino while I was posting this one :)

Wonderful level of detail - especially in the first image. I don't usually consider spiders to be pretty but you make this one look rather attractive.

Thanks Rick - I love watching the surf around interesting coastal formations like this place.

Thanks Murali - Thor's Well is right at the mouth of Cook's Chasm. The waves were high enough to pretty much completely swamp the Well so I stayed off the basalt ledge that runs out to that formation. I have been out in that area dozens of times with heavy surf and don't throw caution to the...

Thanks Jim - just posted a better one from yesterday.

I made a pilgrimage to Cape Perpetua yesterday and decided to try an experiment by shooting with my camera set for high speed shots like I would use for birds in flight to see what kinds of details I could pull out of high surf conditions with heavy sea foam as the waves pounded into Cook's...

Sweet colors. That looks like there are still quite a few green leaves waiting their turn. Might be worth some return visits.

Cute shot. I am used to the invasive gray squirrels that have moved into urban areas and are more used to people. I like the colors on the native species.

Interesting palette - a very different way of looking at that rock. Takes a bit of imagination to see a bird on the rock faces but its there if you are looking for it :)

Thanks Roger!

Thanks Jameel - just about to head up to the Cape area in a few minutes. Hopefully the waves are still strong.

Cook's Chasm is an underwater canyon in the basalt at Cape Perpetua that offers up some fun displays when the swells are high during stormy weather. There is also a hole in the basalt with an opening to the canyon that acts as a blowhole when the waves come crashing up the chasm. This is a shot...