The photograph “Storm on the Ocean Beach” is a picture of San Francisco’s Cliff house during the 1900s before it was burned down by a fire. The image shows a storm happening during 1904 on Ocean Beach. The water level rises to the walkway of the beach and touches the base foundation of the old cliff house. This picture fascinated me because not once had I seen a storm this big in my life that resulted in water level rising tremendously. The lighting of the picture was quite dark which may have been caused by the storm rather than the camera itself during that day. I would assume the photographers’ intention was to show the uniqueness of the storm on Ocean Beach as well as give a feeling of fright to the viewers looking at this picture. The …show more content…
Their special interests are California Pictorialism, Social Documentary photography, Photojournalism and a lot more. They are based in Oakland, California, which is a short drive from downtown San Francisco so it makes sense they would take pictures around all the beautiful scenery in San Francisco including the Ocean Beach. “Compass Group, Big Basin Redwoods State Park” is a photograph of Redwood trees taken in the Redwoods State Park. In this picture, the redwoods has been filtered to make the color a lot warmer than it actually is. Although the picture might have been in black and white color only, the whiteness have been filtered to look closer to a yellowish shade rather than plain white. The texture seems have been modified to have a slightly sharper look to make the picture have more detail. Willard E. Worden and he is a fantastic photographer. He was born in Delaware in 1873 but moved to San Francisco in 1902 after his duty in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines. Willard actually had his first studio at the Cliff House on Ocean Beach but later moved to a gallery in Stockton Street and started taking pictures of Chinatown, the 1906 earthquake, and the Panama-Pacific International
The implied changes in the position of the thrashing waves give you the feeling of motion. The overlapping relationship of the storm clouds to the apparent clear sky, as well as the curve of the rain clouds all imply these dark storm clouds are moving out to the left. Waugh also gave a slight glimmer of sunlight beating down on the rocks in the background to further illustrate the idea that the storm is moving on and the sun is breaking through. This bit of sunlight is the only vibrant color in this paining. The whole aspect of the sea is implied motion. I believe with every short, wide brush stroke used to paint the surf, Waugh intended to imply motion. The very nature of water is movement but he went beyond what we know and tried to convey not just motion but
Born in Britain, emigrated to US early in life, by the 1870s had become a very prominent photographer, mostly photographed nature and animals; very well known
“Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938” by R. A. Scotti was first published in 2003 by Little, Brown and Company in New York City. The novel attempts to recreate the confusion, chaos, and devastation before, during, and after one of the largest hurricanes to hit New England. The “Long Island Express,” as it was named for its speed and impact location, killed 682 people and had massive implications for the region as a whole particularly, the coastal areas where its effects were felt the most. The novel draws less on these implications and instead focuses on a play-by-play of the storm from several perspectives. As such, it ventures from the realm of nonfiction and towards that of historical fiction.
Black, white, and gray is the foam of a crashed wave along a California beach. While the birds-eye-view of the shoot gives us a portion of the beached tide a line of white foam dangles from the bottom of the top border. There the homecoming of the beached wave is met with a wall of resistance from a smaller salty surge. Meanwhile, the water retreats back to its endless body as it curls around protrusions of shell and rock. Mid photo, water spreads itself out on the dry sand making it stained with darker gray and soggy. At the bottom a dark shadow casts itself parallel to the bottom border.
When most people think the of the Gulf of Mexico, the thought of surf probably never crosses their mind. However, the gulf is capable of producing quality surf more than you would think. From hurricanes to cold fronts, the gulf can receive waves from various weather patterns.
The novel “A Storm Too Soon” is about three mighty sailors with the names of Jean Pierre, Rudy Snel, and Ben Tye. The three determined sailors set out on a voyage starting from Florida and want to make it to France by a sailboat called the Sean Seamour II. A sailboat only forty-four feet in size for the three men traveling across the deep blue sea. The strong-minded men setting out for their voyage on the Sean Seamour II, can not wait to get to France. While many miles off shore, the men discover that the weather does not look pleasing. They encounter horrific weather making their voyage not as easy as planned. Soon after the weather changed instantly, this results the three men fighting to stay alive in the horrific storm. The men go through Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs while on their journey out in the deep blue sea during a horrific storm. The men meet the basic needs (food, water, warmth, and rest, security ) and the psychological needs (intimate relationships, friends, feeling of accomplishment). However, many people do not meet the self fulfilment needs (self actualization) but the men in the story meet this need by doing all they could.
As I was reading the sample essay "The Storm We Couldn't Escape" I noticed that he used four out of the five senses, such as sight, sound, smell, and touch. For instance, the author used the sense of sight in great detail to describe the setting. The author mentioned how the dark gray storm clouds swallowed up the sun, how it started to rain as it grew more intense, the power going out leaving them with no electricity, the funnel cloud ripping through the field as it tore up the ground, and the cellar doors that were bound with a thick metal chain wrapped around the handles. The author then used the sense of sound. The author mentioned how the rain sounded as if someone was beating on his home with a couple of gigantic drumsticks, how the pounding
Storm relative velocity is the speed of the winds within the storm after eliminating the motion of the storm itself. It is like base velocity which is the speed of everything in the way of the radar’s beam. However, base velocity is relative to the earth and storm relative velocity is relative to the storm. For base velocity, this means that the speed of the storm and the winds within it are added together to show a total velocity from outside the storm. In order to get storm relative velocity, you must subtract the velocity of the storm relative to the earth from the velocity of the winds within the storm relative to the earth. These measurements are taken from a radar that detects the motion of storms and everything in its field of vision. The radar is used to measure both base velocity and storm relative velocity. The radar detects how fast something is moving towards the radar or away from the radar. Anything moving towards the radar has a negative velocity and anything moving away from the radar has a positive velocity.
That is the image of a tsunami and they strike somewhere in the world almost every year. Some archeologists say that a mediterranean tsunami hit the north shore of Crete about 3500 years ago which sent Minoan civilization to surrender to Mycenaen Greeks. In the fifth century B.C. the Greek historian, Thuydides, was the first to document the connection between earthquakes and tsunamis. The majority of tsunamis are in the Indian and Pacific oceans where the Tectonic plated collide and the one carrying dense oceanic crust dives under the more floatable one forming a deep ocean trench. Normally it happens smoothly, but sometimes they become stuck and friction strain builds up, then it releases energy which raise and lower the water above it which becomes a tsunami. Created from the seafloor up they grow in dangerous heights in shallow waters only because in the deep oceans it barely
The colors that were used in the setting gives a welcoming feel and the unnatural/artificial light lightens up the whole scene. Right after that shot, the next shot still has the camera fixed on Ocean walking into a casino floor. This points out that the casino contains a lot of wealthy rich people spending money on slot machines and various other gambling games. As the casino is the first place that Ocean visits after leaving prison, it suggests that it plays an important role in the storyline.
This photograph was taken on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2015. It was taken during sunset and as the tide had gone out, revealing a wider coastline. The world-famous beach is manmade and since 1951, over 80,000 cubic meters of sand has been imported to replace sand lost through erosion from heavy rainfall, sea swells, wind and tropical storms.
As the cold waters rush into the San Francisco Bay, they crash up against an island standing in the strait. This rock is hidden by the fog and isolated by the chilling waters of the Pacific that flow in and out every day. It has a gloom that hangs about its rocky face most know it as Alcatraz but the men who experienced this island, referred to her as “The Rock”. To the men confined there, it is not only the ultimate in isolation but the most ironic because they are there in the midst of the activity of a busy harbor with small craft darting to and from San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Richmond, and Sausalito; within sound of the honking horns of a ceaseless procession of automobiles crossing the bridges; within sight of ocean
The 1633 masterpiece The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen in 1990, and it's never been found. If you enter the Boston Museum today all you'll see is eerie sight of an empty frame. This painting is based on the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples sailing on the sea of Galilee. Jesus goes down the back of the boat and decides to take a nap, but then a huge storm hits. One of the most intriguing aspects of this painting is that Rembrandt has painting himself on the boat. As if he is an extra disciple. He is not the guy vomiting over the side. He is actually the one holding onto the rope with one hand and his hat with the other as he looks over directly at us. Meanwhile the disciples go down the back of the boat to wake up Jesus. Why
The narratorś backstory is tragic. To simplify it, his home town was undergoing a typhoon, he and his best friend K had decided to travel down to the beach while they had been in the eye of the storm. While they were scavenging the beach the narrator described it as “ strange “. “I do recall that my voice sounded strange to me, as though it belonged to someone else”( Murakami 137). As he had watched a wave start to form his first instinct was to run.
“Poems are written with the feelings and emotions, with the intuition and the instincts, that make each of us who we are” (Charters 669). Dana Gioia, the author of “Summer Storm 2000” expresses an emotional works to an event dated back 20 years ago. Gioia uses dictions such as, imagery, figures of speech, setting, tone, and ballad to help readers not only comprehend the poem but to help them envision and feel it as if they were the ones experiencing the story. Gioia uses these means as a way of expressing his feelings and thoughts while explain to readers the deeper meaning of what “Summer Storm” really entails.