We came into Bandon, a coast town in Oregon, in the early evening. We found a motel room near the beach and took a walk down a wooden stairway to the seafront. The panorama was breathtaking - there were lots of seastacks, small rocky islands, sitting on the sand and in the shallow water, large and small ones.
There was a strong very cold wind, the sky was very clear, and the sun was about to set. What an otherworldly place! I couldn't stop taking photos.
I also took some 1-minute videos of the sand that was driven by the wind across the beach - the movement of the sand streams were not unlike the color streams in those psychedelic 2001 scenes. I turned the small videos into a short youtube clip two days later, using some of my own music that I found on my notebook, a detail from some guitar/computer music improvisation from a couple of weeks ago.
Sabine went back to the motel room but I continued until my hands were numb from the cold.
Next morning, the sky was foggy and cold. The feeling tone had changed dramatically, but the scenery was still otherworldly.
We left Bandon and continued the trip to the south, finding out very soon that the whole southern Oregon coast, right into northern California, is full of seastacks and breathtaking vistas. What a place!
And then there was that spot on my camera lens (near the upper right corner of those images that aren't zoomed). I haven't been able to locate it and get rid of it. Maybe I should turn it into my trademark? Oh, I see that spot on the upper right corner - is that a genuine Michael Peters photography?
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