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Aside from all that wind and whimsy, Long Beach provides guests an opportunity to reconnect with nature. #k5evening
LONG BEACH, Wash. — Long Beach is the winner of Best Beach in 2022’s Best Northwest Escapes viewer ballot.
In the previous, we have visited Long Beach for the wind and the whimsy. There’s a kite pageant there each August and guests will uncover the world’s largest chop sticks, frying pan, and oyster on the similar avenue as Marsh’s Free Museum, house of Jake the Alligator Man.
To see Long Beach via one other lens, we met up with nature photographer Jace Stenersen, who opened his personal gallery at age 19.
“What I like about pictures is I can present the beauty of nature, how I see it, to different folks,” he mentioned.
Stenersen has been wild about wildlife since he was 9, and he seems like he is in the greatest place in the state to shoot it, particularly birds.
“Long Beach Peninsula has over 300 species,” he mentioned. “There are so many various sorts of hawks, shorebirds, songbirds, and owls.”
To get his greatest promoting {photograph} of three owlets, Stenersen climbed 60 ft in a neighboring tree.
“And I variety of simply snapped my finger and so they all checked out me and I snapped the picture,” he mentioned.
We adopted Stenersen onto the seashore and noticed a range of gulls. Just outdoors Long Beach, at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, Stenersen examined his endurance, ready for the excellent shot as three totally different sorts of swallows flitted round the marsh.
“This lens right here weighs 5 kilos and I might be holding it for 5 minutes straight, simply ready for… presumably nothing,” he mentioned.
Ten minutes to the south of Long Beach roar the waves off Cape Disappointment.
“The panorama right here is a few of the greatest in Washington, for my part,” Stenersen mentioned. “Like we have the iconic waves crashing over the lighthouse however generally I’ll be specializing in simply the waves themselves and seeing totally different patterns.”
Stenersen has spent greater than half his life photographing nature and yow will discover his photos on the market in the gallery. He is not simply promoting pictures, shirts and different items. He’s promoting reminders that Long Beach provides greater than wind and whimsy. There’s additionally an excellent deal of natural beauty.
“Just the reality that folks suppose my artwork is nice sufficient to purchase and really place into their house for viewing?” he mentioned. “That makes all of it value it to me.”
WATCH: This is a video Stenersen shot with a drone over Long Beach.
If you are serious about visiting Long Beach you are able to do some analysis on the Visit Long Beach Peninsula web site. You can comply with Jace Stenersen on his Instagram, account “Jace The Bird Nerd.”
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