Every so often — usually near low tide — we bump into Michael Pagliuca of Bloomfield, a landscape photographer who enjoys taking pictures at DeKorte Park.

"I love the surface of the mud flats at low tide — it reminds me of the surface of the moon," he says.

When we asked him to send us a few jpgs, he laughed and explained that he shoots with film. So we talked him into letting us scan a few photographs, shown here and on the jump. (Thanks, Michael!)