Ethereal Escape Ice Late evening off the coast

Late evening off the coast of San Diego — the sea glassed off

ignoring her

Alex shoots in black and white

partly washed-out wooden steps that the postcards never show you climbing back up

The palms line a wide white beach where cruisers have been dropping anchor since the 1960s

Ethereal Escape Ice Late evening off the coastSea stacks form where the headland erodes faster than the harder rock cores that once sat inland the cliff retreats, the cores are left standing in the surf. The Olympic coast is the section of the Lower 48 most actively giving sea stacks back to the water; Rialto, Second Beach, and Ruby Beach all hold examples. Tom shoots a series of them in low cloud, the swell rolling in soft.