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Wormwatching
Pisaster and Anthopleura When the tides fall to their lowest, they briefly expose the rocky shore’s hidden wonders. The most wondrous of those, like the colorful starfishes and anemones, can draw us...
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Favorite Beach Finds: Selections From June, July, and August 2022
I’ve assembled photos of a few fun shoreside discoveries from the past three months. June On the left, two snails evoke a sense of intimacy with their freshly laid egg capsules. Similarly, on the...
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It’s the Season for Second (and Third) Looks at Drift Bull Kelp
Fall signals the end of the bull kelp Nereocystis growing season and the beginning of a period marked by the appearance of drift kelp masses on the beaches. Nereocystis is an annual, so it’s a wonder...
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Shoreside Textures
Sparse gravel dots the sand between the cobbles above and the bare sand below. In this middle ground, the pebbles are smaller than their cobble-mates and have rounded edges that allow them to roll...
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Wrack Line Retrospective, 2022
On even a short beach walk, you can expect to discover pieces enough among the sea wrack to stimulate your imagination and sense of discovery. If you walk a little more, you will find signs of seaweed...
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Shadows and Reflections in Monochrome: Winter Scenes From the High Intertidal
My course on January 26, took me off across the cobbles, onto the beach, and finally to the mussel beds. There, I meant to photograph the limpets that live on and blend in with the bed’s gooseneck...
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A Moment of Big Wood and Big Atmosphere
There are moments of morning luminosity, and I experienced one a few days ago. The driftwood glowed. The piece below is a “piggy head…eye, snout, curled pointy ears.” That’s a persuasive argument, but...
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Brushes With Backlight
Here are a few golden hour scenes that benefit from back and side lighting. In this set, the rising sun illuminates the tops of a lost buoy, cobbles, limpets, and snails while the posterior rim of a...
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Simplicity on the Shore
A walk along the seashore is full of simple scenes, but when it comes to simplicity, frame of reference is everything, even on the beach. To illustrate, I picked a few photos with content that may...
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A Taste for Space
In this post I’m sharing a few examples of photos that include at least some and maybe a lot of empty space or background. It’s my hope that the background space in my selections adds interest to the...
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