Night Tide At Natural Bridges

• Photographer
  Nicholas Dunn

On the southern Oregon coast, the sea arch at Natural Bridges holds a pocket of quiet between cliffs and spruce. On this night the Milky Way lifted over the headlands while the swell breathed through the chasm, turning the water to a pale wash between the rocks. The corridor felt both sheltered and wide open—dark coast below, bright river of stars above. Taken at Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor near Brookings, it’s a meeting of two currents: Pacific surf and the sky’s own tide.

Nicholas Dunn began photographing at age ten, inspired by his father and grandmother. From the Kansas plains to landscapes abroad, he developed a style rooted in abstraction, where nature reads like drawing or design. By eighteen, his work earned international recognition, including multiple honors at the International Photography Awards with a second place in Architecture/Historic. Through fire, water, ice, and land, Nicholas seeks to reveal the patterns and fleeting visions etched by the earth itself.