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Oyster Beds, Arcachon Bay, November 2018

December 10, 2018 in photographs

Camera and Lens: Sony a6000 + 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: 70mm, ISO 200, f/5.0, 30 seconds

This is, along with "Valley of the Saints", my favorite image from France.

I drove for more than three hours to make an image like this one, even though I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to. You see, these Oyster Beds are on a peninsula in the Arcachon Bay, a place I didn't know I'd be able to reach.

I only had one day in the area, so I had to try.

Not only was I able to get close to them, but I did it for hours. I thought that I'd have to leave once the tide got higher, but that only made the spot better and better for the kind of photography I was looking for.

I had a blast looking for compositions among these sticks, until I finally found it. I knew I had gotten what I was looking for as soon as I pressed the shutter, but I still spent some more time in the location just in case I ran into something even better.

That didn't happen, but it didn't matter. I was happy and couldn't wait to see the results of that long day.

It was worth it.

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Tags: arcachon bay, france, europe, road trip, black and white, sony a6000, long exposure
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