jointed – Page 2 – Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Movement

to and fro

June 25, 2020June 15, 2020 MichaelStephenWills5 Comments

Photographers can spend years on the Ireland north coast understanding the play of light on water.

Our springtime evening, a few short hours, are here in this series. Today, a series of two photographs of kelp at low tide, moving with the waves. I see the possibility of a long exposure capturing the movement in one shot.

In which direction is the water/wave surge?

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Tide

Low Tide in a Long Spring Evening

June 24, 2020June 15, 2020 MichaelStephenWills6 Comments

Arriving at low tide, long exposure shots of surf on the pavement was not to be. Here is a rising slope of Giant’s Causeway polygonal columns, dark color marking the usual tidal high point. Above is a measuring stick.

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Behind where I stood for the above photo is a channel, perennially flooded at low tide evidenced by the thick growth of brown algae swaying back and forth with the waves.

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Kelp

Low Tide in a Long Spring Evening

June 23, 2020June 15, 2020 MichaelStephenWills6 Comments

Our Giant’s Causeway visit was during a long spring evening, low tide. The long strands of a kelp forest curling.

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Polygonal

Articulated Building Blocks

June 22, 2020June 15, 2020 MichaelStephenWills3 Comments

Look closer at the basalt column featured in yesterday’s post.

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Basalt Columns

Articulated Building Blocks — HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

June 21, 2020June 21, 2020 MichaelStephenWills2 Comments

“List of places with columnar jointed volcanics” is a Wikipedia page, over a hundred sites across the globe and high resolution images of Mars, these columns of Giant’s Causeway are no less marvelous for being the most famous of a phenomenon well documented.

A pile of articulated blocks, ready for assembly, next to orderly placed columns forming a pavement into the sea. Across the way, on the Isle of Mull, Scotland, a matching pavement. “Jointed” means one surface of each block is convex, the other concave, two blocks fit together.

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