Overlooking the twin sea stacks on Rialto beach above “Hole in the Wall” on a sleepless night on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. See the moonlight passing through the arch below? On this particular evening I checked the tidal forecast and walked through this arch at low-tide, venturing a bit further to shoot landscape imagery at sunset. It was so perfect, so peaceful, there’s something so incredible about water and the ocean, the raw power is silencing and calming. After shooting sunset I headed back to this spine a couple hundred feet above the beach to shoot moonrise. The tide that night kept on surging and surging well into the night beyond the predicted high tide totals. I could’ve climbed over the logs on the beach disturbing backpackers, but chose to wait it out. Hour after hour the tide wasn’t receding. From my perch glancing down the mile or so of visible shoreline, I could see backpackers waking up, multiple at a time to shine their headlamps on the water that kept on ...