Author Archives: c. mark hadfield

diving into the deep end with a new-to-me nikon 50mm and some decent light that was provided by a cloudless, sunny, warm sky that followed rain and sleet and snow the last ten days or so, and more shoreline tidepool crawling, the ovoids in the middle of this family caught my eye.  baranof island, alaska. [...]

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devils club (oplopanax horridus) is considered an adaptogen, an effector of adaptation to environmental change that might otherwise harm or diminish a given biological specimen, providing regulation, mitigation, the ability to continue to grow and thrive in the face of those things, both psychological and physiological, that could contribute to demise.  native tradition acknowledges both [...]

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the constellation of the sea taking a break on an extended rock shoal along the shores of baranof island, alaska. 2012

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‘let not your senses deceive you, for just beyond the howling tempest lies a serenity that could not otherwise find you.’ -unknown a massive -3.2 ‘spring’ low tide yields up these perfect, gently swaying, waving patterns. north pacific ocean, alaska.  2012

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  “i have to keep breathing.  because, tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring.”  –chuck noland (aka tom hanks), ‘castaway’   “…once, long ago, when the world was new, there was raven. raven and his people lived near the shore of the big water. at this time there were [...]

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a ‘posterized’ version of a lucky shot: sometimes i will point a camera randomly and hit the shutter without a clue as to what might have been captured.  the textures and shapes in the rock and sand were what i was really paying attention to.  hours later, reviewing the days shots, zooming in and looking…holy [...]

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