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Matt Eaton SpenT TWO DayS With Terrible tilly

12/23/2018

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And This happened...


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​"Stand ALONE"

"Terribly Tilly" sits 1.2 miles off the north coast of Oregon.  She endures the wrath of wind, wave and weather, and she is much tougher than me.   - Matt Eaton

When I texted Matt on December 16th to see if he was near to come meet a client who was buying his beautiful (big!) Cannon Beach oceanscape for his wife for Christmas, I got back, "At the coast shooting waves".  

Of course you are.  Because it's nasty wet cold blowing weather, and that makes great oceanscapes.

Matt was out in it for two days to get this shot.  Exposure time was 3.5 minutes (think about that in terms of what happens when your hand shakes in the 1/60th of a second that it takes your camera to get the shot). 

This is what gives "Stand Alone" that beautiful soft alive look... Tilly and her rock held their spot on the planet, while ocean and fog and light moved around them. 

​This is a color photograph, grayscale courtesy of Mother Nature.

​- LH

The Story Of Terrible Tilly
For more information on the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse and why she has been nicknamed, "Terrible Tilly", see the great article on our friends at Travel Oregon's website.

I've lived here the entirety of my life and somehow missed this amazing story... I am always in awe of how remarkable things were built before (1878) we had all the tools we have now.  So thanks, Matt.

"The Mystery Of Terrible Tilly" 
"Stand Alone" In Your Home
 "Stand Alone" is fulfilled in full glory,  in a large-format metal print.  See it for the first time outside of Troutdale Art Center as Matt starts the show year off at the Convention Center January 4-6, 2019.
Roadshow Photography at the Build, Remodel, & Landscape Show 

If you are hopelessly out of area, you can purchase "Stand Alone" on Matt's Roadshow Photography site .
 Just don't frame it until you get Matt's signature :).


1 Comment
Linda L. Race
1/18/2023 04:43:32 pm

Just watched the video of "Terrible Tilly." Wow, what a story. I was born and raised in Oregon, but seldom visited the coast with my family. The story of "Terrible Tilly" is fascinating. Makes one realize how much of this beautiful State and it's history we have never seen.

Matt Eaton's photographs are so clear and detailed he makes the viewer feel they are standing there seeing the subject in person.

I was given a Christmas gift of one of Matt's photos of an abandoned home in Kent, Oregon that he named "The Old Homestead." I love it!

Anyone that has not seen his work at the Troutdale Art Center should make it a point to check their hours and find time to visit. His photographs are stunning!

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