If you’re not familiar with the area, sometimes it can be pretty difficult to tell if a body of water is at high or low tide. Yes, low tide tends to smell a lot more like exposed seaweed and muck, but if you don’t have the high tide scent to compare it to, you’re out of luck. The tidal changes in these pictures, however, don’t suffer from that ambiguity. In his “Sea Change” collection, photographer Michael Marten documents the drastic differences between the tides in various locations across the UK.

Check them out!

(H/T Reddit)

Okay, The Moon, I get it–you have more gravitational pull than me. You don’t have to rub it in on a regular basis with these tides.

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