Gatherer
Photo Location: Cannon Beach, OR
Cannon Beach, Oregon, offers one of the Pacific Northwest's most magical wildlife encounters, where herds of Roosevelt elk — the largest elk subspecies in North America — are sometimes spotted wandering the misty coastal meadows and forested edges just inland from the beach, their massive, velvet-antlered forms moving with quiet grace against a backdrop of towering Sitka spruce and western hemlock. Image copyright © Jongas Fine Art Photography.