Water Photoshoot 1/30 - Tyler Adres

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Out of the numerous hikes we already completed within the first couple weeks for this course, Clayton Beach is my favorite so far. I have not gotten the chance to explore Bellingham's forests or beaches much up until taking this class so I am ecstatic to see what else we will do in the upcoming weeks.
I have grown up next to the water all my life- Sitka is a small town on Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. There are many beaches in my hometown that look very similar to Clayton Beach; which is why I favor this field trip the most out of the others. Specifically, there is a spot named Whale Park that overlooks Silver Bay, very similar to what is here in Bellingham. Both Bellingham Bay and Silver Bay are sounds. All across Baranof Island, there are many islands that create sounds like this.
Water has been a very common subject to take pictures of, but this is the first time I have taken photos of the ocean with a DSLR. I found it very difficult to navigate the right shutter speed when taking pictures of these waves. Some compositions that I planned turned out blurry on accident, but found some of the blur to be very compelling. But most of the time, I tried to take clear pictures of the small waves crashing against the shore. Most of my pictures were show with a shutter speed above 1/1000.
After the Kruckeberg reading, I became very interested in the variation of tide levels throughout the day. I did some research on tidal charts in Bellingham during the time we went to shoot these photos. On Thursday the 30th around 11:50 am, the tide was at 6 feet (US Harbors). The highest the tide got that day was 9.2 feet at 6:45 AM, and the lowest it got was -1.5 feet at 11:50 PM. According to the reading, it is common for this region's tide to vary around 11.3 feet.

“Bellingham, WA - Local Tide Times, Tide Chart.” US Harbors, www.usharbors.com/harbor/washington/bellingham-wa/tides/?tide=2025-01#monthly-tide-chart. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.


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