Exciting (for me) photographic surprise

[amid chaos]

It was a beautiful sunny day in the mid 50's so I headed down to the beach with my camera. I live on cape Cod.

Just playing around I took some shell pictures at waters edge in Quissett Harbor.

Much to my surprise, when I got home and loaded them to the computer I see some bioluminecence. Dinoflagelettes which are one celled algea which capture light thru photosynthesis and then "glow" when their cell sides are bumped.

I was unable to see them with the naked eye on this very sunny day, but my camera was obviously able to "see" them. Normally you can only see them at night when they make the water glow when disturbed.

The only reason I knew what they were is that I recently read of a bay in the carribbean where you can kayak at twilight in a bioluminecence bay and the water around the kayaks and splashes from the paddles will glow.

This is a cropped version of one of my pictures.

 

[Dan Murphy]

That looks very neat, Vanessa!!! Man, you guys have everything there on the Cape. Thanks for sharing. and nice to see you.

 

[Virgo10]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing the information and the great photo.

 

[TheLionKing]

I may be wrong, but what we may be seeing is a different kind of "blooming". I don't think this is blooming algae, but rather digital blooming.

Blooming and Purple Fringing

 

[amid chaos]

Thanks Lion King..that explains the mystery purple. I know we have bioluminecence in the waters here, but I couldnt understand why my camera could see them in the daylight. Thanks again!

 

[Rajah]

Regardless of the source, it's a very cool picture!

 

[Anewman]

NICE pictures

 

[dmslush]

I agreee, regardless of why it happened, it is beautiful!