Photomurals, Unmasking B.C.'s Waters
The creation of photomurals allows people to view expansive images of B.C.'s normally hard to photograph underwater world.
Photographing underwater habitats in the Strait of Georgia can be particularly difficult, as our waters are often dark and turbid, owing to a combination of plankton-rich waters and silty run-off from the Fraser River. These two factors can make it practically impossible to take an expansive photograph or video illustrating the geography and biological richness of the Strait of Georgia's underwater world. In order to overcome the visibility problem, the Aquarium's
research divers have taken to photographing Ecological Index
Site reefs piece by piece and constructing larger photomurals
from the individual photographs. This project has been aided
by a grant from the Vancouver Foundation and by an evolving
relationship with the Center for Digital Imaging and Sound
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Photomurals:
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For more information about the photomural project, email research@vanaqua.org
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