For my book, I have decided to entitle it ‘Moonscape’. Due to the content matter and what I am presenting to my audience through my photographs, I feel it is quite a suitable title and a title that has meaning. Despite my images aren’t actually of moonscapes, it will bring surprise to the audience which will stimulate thought processing of how the moon affects tidal movement. The main idea behind titling it this is because I don’t want to give away the content matter through the front cover. Also it has significant meaning with the scientific way in which the moon effects the ocean movement which is a key idea within my project.

Official definition of the word : a landscape resembling the surface of the moon, especially in being rocky and barren.

Wikipedia explanation – A moonscape is an area or vista of the lunar landscape, or a visual representation of this, such as in a painting. The term “moonscape” is also sometimes used metaphorically for an area devastated or flattened by war, often by shelling.

Scientific explanation :

While both the Moon and the Sun influence the ocean tides, the Moon plays the biggest role because it is so much closer to our planet than the Sun. In fact, the tidal effect of the Moon on Earth is more than twice as strong as that of the Sun, even though the Sun’s gravitational pull on Earth is around 178 times stronger than that of the Moon. The gravitational force of the Moon and the Sun pulls the water in the oceans upwards making the oceans bulge, which creates high tide in the areas of Earth facing the Moon and on the opposite side.

At the same time, in other parts of the planet, the ocean water drains away to fill these bulges, creating low tides. However, the oceans’ water is also constrained by the continents and varying ocean depths. As a result, the tides behave more like water sloshing around in an oddly shaped bathtub than in a smooth and even basin.