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I don’t often have time to read through books that are geared towards adults so when I do I make sure the book is worth my while. The Time Seashore and The Ever-Changing Coastline: Tidal Forces at Work by Joseph R. Votano are the latest to cross my path. These two new photo journey books take you through gorgeous seashores and coastlines. The pictures are so stunning that they make me wish I could travel to far away lands. Since travel is out of my budget I can instead take a visual journey through the photography in these books.
The American shoreline offers infinite beauty in countless forms, from curiously sculpted beaches to towering sea stacks, strewn seaweed, and crabs scuttling in tide pools. These natural phenomena blend harmoniously with man-made structures such as harbors, piers, boats, and lighthouses. The images in this book celebrate the fascinating and startlingly abstract beauty of seashores in the US, from foggy days in Maine to fiery sunsets along the Oregon coast and storm-shrouded lighthouses, quiet inlets, rocky cliffs, and much more. This book aims to enhance appreciation for oceans and their shape-shifting shorelines. They are, after all, timeless.
Beaches are the most dynamic places on Earth, offering an infinite variety of patterns and geological land formations. This book celebrates and solves the mysteries of the fascinating and frequently abstract beauty of gravitational effects at the water’s edge. Lovers of natural history will appreciate the images of curiously sculpted potholes, towering sea stacks, sand and vegetal varieties, and blue sky reflected in striated rivulets, accompanied by diagrams and explanations of the natural forces at work. This book aims to enhance appreciation for oceans and their shape-shifting shorelines. They are, after all, wondrous.
Joe Votano is a photographer whose published works include travelogues of Europe, Boston, and Cape Cod, as well as Boston Below and Shaker Legacies, both published by Schiffer Publishing. His images have appeared in Prestige Travel Hong Kong, Michelin travel guides, Aishti Magazine (Middle East), and Boston.com.
Capturing the beauty of nature in a photograph is not as easy as you think. Each of these photographs were clearly taken to evoke emotions and Votano does so with perfection. Even my girls will sit and browse these books with me. They love to point out all their favorite things like lighthouses and ships. The first book is smaller in size and focuses on the picture themselves to tell the whole story while the second title features bigger pages and more in depth information about where each picture was taken. Living in Florida means we have been lucky enough to see some of the places in these books in person but now my girls want to see them all. Perhaps these books will even inspire my girls to take up photography!
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