Photography

Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge offers photographers an ever-changing canvas of rugged coastal beauty and remarkable wildlife. Stretching along Oregon’s dramatic shoreline, the refuge encompasses windswept sea stacks, rocky cliffs, crashing surf, and mist-shrouded islands that create stunning opportunities for landscape photography in every season.

Equally captivating are the refuge’s abundant seabirds, from tufted puffins and common murres to cormorants and gulls, whose nesting colonies bring the islands to life with color, motion, and sound. Whether capturing a fiery sunset over the Pacific, waves breaking against ancient rock formations, or seabirds soaring above the coastline, photographers will find endless inspiration in this wild and scenic refuge.