{"id":103,"date":"2026-06-21T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/waiting-for-the-tide\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:59:34","slug":"waiting-for-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/waiting-for-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the tide on the black beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the black beaches, the picture is in the wet sand. When the tide is out, the sand holds a thin layer of water that reflects the sky. When the tide is in, there is no sand to reflect anything. So I plan every evening around two tables: the sunset and the tide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In winter on that coast, low tide and good light line up on about six evenings a month. I mark them in my calendar weeks ahead, and then I hope for a clear sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Sand, No. 1. Low tide and a clear dusk on the same evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Twenty minutes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The good part starts when the sun is just below the horizon and lasts about twenty minutes. I stand in the water in rubber boots, with the tripod pushed deep into the sand so the waves cannot move it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sea always wins. You just have to be standing in the right place when it pulls back.<\/p>\nBlack Sand, the afterword<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The frame above was made on the fourth attempt at that beach. The first three evenings, the cloud came in from the sea ten minutes before sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best light on the black beach lasts about twenty minutes, and only at low tide. Some notes on planning a shot around the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kurato_page_runtime":0,"kurato_hide_header":false,"kurato_hide_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[49,51,50],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-black-sand","tag-coast","tag-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}