15” x 19.50” or 29” x 39” fine art print on Hahnemuhle rag paper with 1.5” white border. Edition of 15 or 10.

Postelsia palmaeformis, or sea palm, on a foldout plate from Ruprecht (1852 plate VI), recoloured. Collection of Michael J. Wynne.

26” x 33” fine art print on Hahnemuhle rag paper. Edition of 10.

Postelsia palmaeformis or sea palm. Postelsia palmaeformis is the coolest kelp there is. It seems different from other kelps and seaweeds—kookier, more Dr. Seuss-worthy. Called sea palm because it looks like a diminutive palm tree, it is found nowhere else on earth but the wave-crashed rocks off the coast of northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, from the headlands of San Luis Obispo to Vancouver Island. Unlike its kelp compatriots, it does not venture north to Alaska. Usually Postelsia is viewed from afar, growing on barren fragments of the continent that have broken off and sit exposed to the wide Pacific, patiently being pounded into the sands of time.

39” x 31” fine art print on Hahnemuhle rag paper. Edition of 10.

Egregia menziessii, or feather boa kelp. This jazzy specimen was picked up from Fort Funston and gotten onto my scanner while it was still fresh from the ocean. Feather boa kelp is one that cannot wait to be scanned. It loses its fabulousness quickly when away from the ocean.