 morning. The wind's picked up a little bit. Go figure where at the Oregon Coast. It wasn't too bad in my little hole here, but it definitely sounds like it's picked up. It's like we're in front of their blue sky clear day. I think I'm gonna pack things up, go back the way I came, get back to the car, and drive down the coast a little farther. Let's check out the section of dunes before I start heading north again. It's amazing all this fits in a backpack. My name is David Patton. When I started photography I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer. But with a family to feed and bills to pay, I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist. So I took a job as a photo journalist. 25 years and thousands of assignments later it was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion. Come along on my journey to become the best black in my photography I can be. Whether it be film or digital, I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures and hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is brightening the edge. It's been a while since I've... well it's been a long time since I've done any solo backpacking. I gotta admit it I didn't feel all that comfortable. It was a little uneasy last night. I think it'll just take some time. I used to do that again by myself. You know every every sound in the woods just is amplified when you're by yourself. I didn't sleep all that well but that's nothing new. I don't... even when I'm with people I don't usually sleep all that well out in the woods. That's just you know that's just the way it is. Boy I wish I could find one of these trees and make an image. Just there's no way to get it to stand out from the background. Just so much clutter but there's some really cool trees here. I'm hoping for one to jump out. I hope to hear the angels sing and say here it is. Here's the shot but I don't see one. I mean it's it's extremely beautiful. I just don't see a lot of photogenic areas. Some cool reflections but it's too windy. This is frustrating. I mean there's so much potential here but I'm not seeing it. I'm in photo mode today. I sure like to come home with some shots. I haven't gone out too often and not brought something home. So hopefully this isn't that one of those days. I mean I'm on the Oregon Coast for God's sakes. There's gotta be some interesting photos around here. Well I did find something to photograph. This really kind of interesting contrast. I don't know what this stuff is. This light color stuff but it contrasts with the green foliage. Might make an interesting texture type picture. This light isn't really good for the forest type shots. I'm trying to get something here because I've never seen anything like this before. It's kind of unusual for me. It's kind of some kind of moss or fungus type thing but it's kind of interesting. It's really just really thick in here. I'm gonna make a couple compositions in here. I like the contrast between the light and the dark in here. I just wish the light was a little more even. But you know you work with what you got. These look like dunes. It's a little bit more what had mine. I just wish it was a different time of day. These are a little more clean. Pretty expansive. Sure what to photograph. But there's hope here that I might find something. It's pretty windy. I'm just hoping the sun wasn't so high. Get a little bitter. The texture on the sand. Definitely those places I'm gonna have to come back to. I think I finally found the dunes I'm gonna want to work in. It's just they're so they're so big. I need to explore more areas and it's gonna change just by the hour. By the season. The light the way the wherever the light is is gonna determine what part of the dune you're gonna want to shoot. It's pretty cool. I was kind of hoping for this where I was yesterday. I just kind of wish it wasn't so windy. Can't ever everything. Found my shot. I thought this was a person standing in the sand. I was way way over there. And I saw this sticking out of the sand. I thought with these light with these shattered lines on the front and in front and back of the of the old tree. I thought there's my shot right there. It's taking me almost an hour to get here. And I'm quite happy with the composition. I just hope it turns out. I'm shooting it with a 150 millimeter lens. Slightly compressed. Got some cool lines through it. With that nice anchor point in the center there. I'm off to the side. That tree might get a couple of wide angle shots now I think. This is what I came for. I'm pretty happy. Over there is where I took the last shot today. I think I'm gonna end today's video right here. It's been a fun couple days. Not a whole lot of photos but I got enough. I'll have something to show you in the video. So until next time thanks for coming along for the ride.