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Beach Patterns: The World of Sea and Sand
Beach Patterns The World of Sea and Sand Author:Stella Snead In this unique and beautiful book Stella Snead takes a fresh look at beaches. With her camera pointed downward, she records an amazing variety of subtle and fascinating patterns--- those made by crabs and other sea creatures, by the actions of waves on sand, or by runnels of water imitating estuaries as we see them from the air. — All this and mu... more »ch more is pictured here in a series of photographs in both color and black and white. The text, also by Stella Snead, is descriptive, evocative, and informative. This is a book to sharpen our observation and to lead us to lonely stretches of sand, for these delicate patterns could hardly exist on beaches that are crowded playgrounds. It is essentially a photographic book, since, without the camera, these illusive delineations might be still unrecorded. Once on film, though, these small and seemingly insignificant things can be enlarged, and their strangeness and poetry revealed.« less