Image of the Month, April 2019: "Arcachon Bay"

Arcachon Bay is a beautiful place in SW France, in the region of Aquitaine. A few months ago, I got to spend a few days in the area and ended up making a few images.

This one is my favorite. These sticks are markers for the oyster beds, where fishermen go during low tide to get the ones that are ready.

"Arcachon Bay" is the first digital image offered as part of the "Image of the Month" collection, also a first for an image of mine made in Europe after months of shooting at this side of the ocean.

You can watch the video of how I made it here.

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A new image will be released every month and offered at a reduced price during that time. After 30 days, it will be sold at full price. They will never be on sale at any time in the future, the rate during the first month will be the lowest, ever.

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"Arcachon Bay" is available for purchase here.

Oyster Beds, Arcachon Bay, November 2018

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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Arcachon Bay ~ Long Exposures with the Sony a6000

My time in France is coming to an end.

I thought that going to the Arcachon Bay and making some images of the oyster parks was one of the best ways to spend that little time left, and I think it was a good decision.