Feild Work Study

For my fieldwork study, I chose the story of Hurricane Sandy. I saw it on the news and there was a full moon that night so it got me thinking about the connection between the moon and the tide which could make such a destructive force.
Since the Earth spins on its own axis, water is kept balanced on all sides of the planet through centrifugal force. The Moon's gravitational forces are strong enough to disrupt this balance by accelerating the water towards the Moon. This causes the water to 'bulge.' The Earth's rotation causes a sympathetic bulge on the opposite side of the planet as well. The areas of the Earth where the bulging occurs experience high tide, and the others are subject to a low tide. However, the Moon's movement around the Earth means that the effects of its forces are in motion as well, and as it encircles our planet, this bulge moves with it.
Here are my photos:

I took this photo of the moon with a very long shutter speed so that it let in a lot of light and then it made the sky look a nice dark blue colour. Also the clouds around the moon look like parts of the waves, the wispy clouds look like the start of the waves and the group of clouds look like the whitewash of the wave. The tree is supposed to represent seaweed.