Partridge Island
Nova Scotia
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He Carries Art Everywhere … or, The Still Life Within
It’s not a still life that I would have chosen to photograph, but the collection of sand, pebbles, and seaweed within the upper side of this jellyfish was not totally unremarkable.
Wave Action
Whale Cove, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia
Bright sky, crystalline water, reddish sand, rainbow pebbles, and the most elegant and extravagant purple jellyfish I have ever seen. So much color on this small, isolated, and nearly empty cove. It was a spur of the moment, “Quick! Pull over there!” stop on our drive north on the west coast of Cape Breton from the Bay of Fundy area. So glad we did!
Medusa’s Lost Tress
Red on a Ledge
Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia
A magnificent pebbled beach and cliffs positively littered with fossils. No fossil here (unless that is a small bit of coprolite from a fish in the red rock), but a lovely composition that was arranged by the outgoing tide.
Tidal Splatter
Duet
A graceful duet, danced in the Minas Basin mud.
Waiting for the Tide to Return
The tremendous tidal change in the Bay of Fundy leaves marine creatures exposed during low tide.
The Sea Likes Jackson Pollock
Nature emulates 20th century art.
How Fossils Begin
An anniversary trip to Nova Scotia provided us with a number of new tide lines to visit and to photograph. The first stop was the Bay of Fundy, which experiences one of the highest vertical tidal ranges in the world. The Minas Basin, pictured here, is where the tide is most extreme. Last weekend the tidal extreme was approximately 40′ (over 12 meters).
Low tide reveals huge expanses of thick, oozy, sticky, red mud; mud that is delightful to walk in, roll in, and play in, as many children demonstrated for us.
With the permission of their parents, I photographed these two delightful mud-monsters at Five Islands Provincial Park. I think a visit to the Minas Basin is a much different experience when accompanied by children! Although far from a “still life”, these brothers were very much part of the tide line … and I think the tide line was very much a part of them, likely for a few days after. This mud does not just rinse off!
Tide Line Still Life 