Kelp and Mussels
I am preparing this post on Friday night and am feeling lazy. So just two images today, and scanty text. I have lots more to present about the Kilgii Gwaay site and our activities there, but that will be on other days.
Two great things about working with the tides is that (a) they are very low when we are on the beach exposing rarely seen lifeforms and (b) they often coincide with sunrise or early morning light. The kelp above and California mussels with bladderwrack below are examples, photographed at a good low tide with the morning sun just making its way onto the headlands of the beach.
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This link catalogues my posts about Kilgii Gwaay. I was accompanied on this trip by one of the Quimper Hittys, Tansy who is blogging about the trip from a doll’s view and you can find those posts here. Pertinent to this post, she has already blogged about some of the intertidal life that she discovered, including seaweed and sea stars.
Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO 640, f4.5/1/40th top and 1/100th bottom.
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Wonderful. These are beautiful. I like the kelp as well – it has a different texture in black and white.
The texture sure stands out in b&w, more so than in colour, but maybe that is a bit of a universal…
Fantastic B&W work in that first shot
Thanks Andy, I am glad you like it.
Love these. Great texture in both.
Thanks Danita! Wet slippery things photo very nicely in the early morning light.
The kelp make me think of slippery little fish. Great texture.
Thanks Karen – I bet that there were slippery little fish under those fronds, had I lifted them to see.
I especially like the top image in today’s post. Beautiful glossy and reflective quality you captured here.
Thank you Ken. After posting the bottom one I was thinking I should have cropped in tight on the shiny bits of the shell which is what I really like about that image. Some other time.