![]() ![]() We remained on the flats for about two hours until the sun made a grand exit in one of the most crimson sunsets I've ever witnessed. But the photographic opportunities were so incredible, none of us stopped making images! We jumped up and down from the cold, we cursed the wind, we rubbed our hands together, and then, we set up our tripod for another glorious image! To say the least, it was brutally cold! We were frozen, and I, with the wrong kind of boots, had wet feet, too. On the day John, Steve and I walked out on the tidal flats – I for the first time – it was about 45 degrees with 40+ mile per hour winds. The colors, the patterns, the textures, and the light are something about which photographers dream! What is left is a tapestry of ripples in the sand made by the sea and wind, tufts of sea grass (which in the fall turns a rich gold, tinged with remnants of green), and pools of sea water that reflect an often extraordinary, cloud-filled sky. When the water recedes, it leaves firm sand to walk on. IPhone XS Max, Resident Camera with Smart HDR Out about a mile and looking back to the high tide shoreline. At low tide, the water recedes, allowing one to walk out on the area known as the "tidal flats." These sand flats are exposed at low tide and one can walk our for a miles. Steve lives in a beautiful home, his backyard the sea near Brewster. One of our first stops was to visit our friend, the remarkable photographer, Steve Koppel. ![]() Last week, with co-leader, John Barclay, I had the pleasure of leading a talented group of photographers as we photographed beautiful locations on Cape Cod from Chatham to Provincetown.Īs is customary, John and I arrived a few days early to scout locations and prepare for the workshop. As a result, this work presents the first usage of a coastal video system to monitor tidal flats and gives several contributions to prove that microtopographic units can be regarded as useful indicators for studying the daily change patterns of tidal flats in response to anthropogenic activities, thereby providing an alternative method for analyzing the morphological changes corresponding to other short-term events, such as storms.Brewster Tidal Flats near Brewster, Cape Cod This dynamic equilibrium was also observed through an analysis of one region of interest, thereby illustrating an iterative equilibrium by shifting between fragmentation and flattening during the recovery period. The number of small microunits (area between 1 and 10 m²) increased significantly during the recovery period under the influence of the tidal current. A statistical analysis of the areas of individual microunits showed that they tended to become miniaturized and fragmented. Finally, the geomorphology of the tidal flat recovered to the state before the scouring event in only a few days. The results show that microunits initially tended to form near the sluice gate, spread throughout the study area in the alongshore direction, and then gradually disappeared with increase in time. The changes exhibited by these microtopographic units (microunits) were monitored by a coastal video system with two high-definition cameras for 29 days. This work presents the results of an investigation of the daily variation pattern of tidal flats in response to anthropogenic activities by using microtopographic units (areas of local uplift) as indicators. However, although short-term morphological change patterns can affect the establishment of salt marsh vegetation on bare tidal flats, these patterns are rarely studied. The natural geomorphology of muddy coastal zones can easily change in a short period of time, especially under the influences of coastal engineering. ![]()
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