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SCRATCHPAD
We almost blew our cover
How a forgotten
unpublished photo
saved Our Coast
Magazine 2019
By ERICK BENGEL
COAST WEEKEND
I
Colin Murphey
The Our Coast Magazine 2019 cover on top of the original, unedited photo.
coast
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
weekend
arts & entertainment
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THE ARTS
‘Real Lewis and Clark’
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR
ERICK BENGEL
CONTRIBUTORS
NICOLE BALES
DAVID CAMPICHE
RYAN HUME
EVE MARX
BARBARA LLOYD McMICHAEL
PATRICK WEBB
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COASTAL LIFE
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n the late stages of gathering
materials for Our Coast Mag-
azine 2019, as production
drew near, photographer Colin
Murphey and I felt the fi rst prick-
les of panic. We discovered we
had a problem: We didn’t have a
cover photo.
Or, rather, the photo we
thought we would use — a shot
Colin had taken months before
of beach volleyball players in sil-
houette against a blazing sun —
was a no-go. Somehow we’d con-
vinced ourselves the cover, a
rather important piece of the mag-
azine, was a settled matter. But
the authorities hadn’t explicitly
approved the image we’d chosen
and now they wanted something
different.
So, in the fi nal throes of
assembling a publication that’s
supposed to have a summery feel,
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