Bay of Fundy

From 2007, a visit to Nova Scotia produced a capture of the tidal variation at the town of Digby.

Summer of 2007 my wife and I took a trip to Nova Scotia, as there was a dog agility event being held there. Rather than spending the entire day at the event, I took some side trips to explore a bit more of this magnificent area.

One of these explorations had me in the wonderful town of Digby on the Bay of Fundy at low tide…

Low Tide on the Bay

The Bay of Fundy has phenomenal tidal variation as can be seen from the markings on the dock and the position of the boats.

After I took this shot, I found it to be kind of flat, as the clouds were too bright in the image; it’s something that nowadays I would have photographed with a bracketed series of exposures to increase the overall dynamic range of the image. It was not until several years later that I re-processed the image with a single image HDR technique, as well as adding some texture to the image itself.

As I still like what I captured here, this will be on my list of images to re-process with some of the skills that I have picked up over the years, so I can get it to the next level.

Diversity of the Earth – pt. 2

Highs and lows

This weeks WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge has the theme of Earth, which is appropriate, given that Saturday is Earth Day.  So I figured that I would do a weeklong series of different views of the Earth that I have experienced.  Feel free to join in with the fun!

In this second episode, we find ourselves at the location of the Earth’s largest tidal variation: the Bay of Fundy!  The Earth’s interplay with the Moon has been key to the development of life on this little planet, and the tidal movements are a diurnal reminder of this interaction…

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Bay of Fundy at Low Tide

This image dates back just about 10 years, from when we went to visit Nova Scotia.  As my wife was running our dogs in agility, I explored Nova Scotia and found this low tide scene in the little town of Digby.

Technical Details

This image was captured with Canon EOS 1D MkII using an Canon 28-80mm f/4-5.6 lens.  Exposure settings were at 1/125 second and f/9 with 400 ISO.