Waterfront: Intertidal Zone - At Low Tide

An urban waterfront at low tide. The water level has dropped by more than two meters, revealing large areas of grayish-brown mudflats and gravel, with the caisson foundations of the pier, old wooden piles, and concrete surfaces covered with barnacles and algae all exposed, their surfaces wet and reflective; several water birds are foraging on the mudflats. The lower half of the waterfront steps is completely exposed, with waterlines and varying shades of algae on the step surfaces. The upper promenade and people are using it as usual. The sky is overcast. Avoid: depicting only high tide, drawing the exposed structures as clean new surfaces, ignoring the attachment of algae and barnacles, treating the mudflats as beautified paving.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一段退潮時的都市水岸。水位降下兩米以上,露出大片灰褐色的泥灘與礫石,碼頭的沉箱基礎、舊木樁與佈滿藤壺海藻的混凝土面全部現形,表面濕潤反光;幾隻水鳥在泥灘上覓食。親水階梯的下半段完全露出,階面上留著水線與藻類的深淺帶。上方的步道與人照常使用。天空是陰的。避免:只畫滿潮的狀態、把露出的結構畫成乾淨的新面、忽略藻類與藤壺的附著、讓泥灘被處理成美化過的鋪面。