Shutterbug bliss

Seaside Aquarium’s Tiffany Boothe has accomplished quite a coup, and the dream of many a photographer: She’s had one of her photos published in National Geographic — both online at tinyurl.com/tiff-NatGeo and in the September 2016 issue of the magazine. Her image is one of the illustrations for the article, “The Blob That Cooked the Pacific,” by Craig Welch, about the effects of warm ocean water on the West Coast.

A section of her photo is shown. The caption is: “Jellyfish-like animals known as ‘by-the-wind sailors’ blanket an Oregon beach near an old shipwreck. Some of the same unusual wind patterns and currents that recently warmed the Pacific pushed these floating creatures by the millions onto beaches from Southern California to British Columbia.” (In One Ear, 9/16/2016)