It’s difficult to believe these pictures of gigantic , thrashing waves were non captured inwards the body of body of water but on the shallowest of the Great Lakes of North America. Lake Erie may live on shallow (just xx meters deep on average) but it isn’t small. It stretches for 388 km inwards length together with has a maximum width of 92 km , making it the 11th largest lake inwards the public past times surface area. And because the lake is shallow , weather condition tin alter dramatically inwards only a affair of minutes , amongst violent waves springing upward unexpectedly. In fact , the tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shore called the lake "Erige" which agency “cat” because of its unpredictable together with sometimes violently unsafe nature. Lake Erie’s nasty storms convey claimed no less than 1 ,400 ships together with every bit high every bit 8 ,000 according to i estimate. Some tell , Lake Erie has to a greater extent than "wrecks per foursquare mile" than whatever other freshwater place on earth.
The ability of Lake Erie was captured inwards these dramatic images past times Canada-based lensman David Sandford , over a menstruum of 4 weeks inwards Nov on the shores of Port Stanley , Ontario. Around this fourth dimension of the twelvemonth the lake is at its close violent. The air current lashes at l km per hr together with temperature plunges below zero. On days similar these when close people avoid the lake , Sandford drives out to the lake’s shore earlier sunrise , gets into a wetsuit together with wades out into the surf amongst his photographic gear. If the waves cash inwards one's chips also fossil oil , he retreats to the shore together with shoots amongst a long lens.
“Oceans together with lakes beckon me. Since I was a fry , I’ve loved to live on on , inwards or or then water. I’m fascinated past times the sheer raw ability together with forcefulness of it , captivated past times the graceful motion of a moving ridge together with mesmerized past times low-cal dancing across it.” he told Washington Post.
David Sandford calls this serial “Liquid Mountain”.
