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About
Forty-five minutes of holding still. The light made it worth it.
The internet has flattened photography in a specific way: by the time you arrive somewhere famous, you've already seen what every other competent photographer made of it. The sunset version. The blue hour version. The drone version. After a while you stop wanting to make those versions and you start wanting to make a version you haven't seen.
For Heceta Head, that meant getting close. Really close — close enough that the lighthouse fills the vertical frame and you can see the cuts of the railing and the imperfect plaster of the tower wall and the green salal in the foreground that I had to choose deliberately to keep in the frame because they put you at a specific distance. The sun was setting behind the lighthouse. I wanted a sunburst through the lantern room, which meant I had to be at exactly the right angle — close to the cliff edge, lower than the lighthouse, with the spikes of my tripod dug into the slope and my body braced because the slope wasn't level enough to stand on without leaning.
I used a remote trigger because I couldn't get a good footing. I was there for what felt like an hour and was probably forty-five minutes. When I saw the photograph on the back of the camera I knew that day.
Why You'll Love This Print
- Hand-stretched canvas on premium cotton substrate with UV-protective sealant — the same archival standard used in professional galleries
- Museum-quality Gicleé printing with archival inks rated for 100+ years of display
- Personally signed by Jeremy Burke
- Free shipping included
Perfect For
Oregon Coast lovers, Pacific Northwest home décor, collectors of dramatic landscape photography, anyone who has stood at the edge of the Pacific and felt small in the best possible way.
About the Artist
Jeremy Burke is a multiple award-winning photojournalist and Oregon Coast fine art photographer. After 20 years as a newspaper publisher and 15 years behind the lens, he shoots between 5,000 and 20,000 images every month — and sometimes the best ones come from the days when the weather had other plans.
Built to Order
Every print in this collection is individually produced after your order is placed — never mass-manufactured or pulled from inventory. That means your piece is made specifically for you, using the materials and format you select.
Production takes 2–3 weeks from the time of order. Each print is personally inspected by Jeremy before it ships.
