Kevin Snair launches Hopewell Rocks photography book

A Moncton photographer will launch his book Bay of Fundy's Hopewell Rockson Sunday as part of the annual Albert County Appreciation Days.

KevinSnair, along-timeHopewellRocksinterpreter,says the book, which celebratesthe provincial park, has been four years in the making.

"We discovered that there really wasn't a definitive book on the park that guests could turn to for the science,for the history.It had never really been gathered together in this way before," he said in an interview on Information Morning Moncton on Friday.

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Moncton photographer and long time Hopewell Rocks interpreter, Kevin Snair, launches a book on Sunday celebrating the well-known international site.

Photos in the book date back to the early 1900sand Snair saysmany were collectedfrom people in Albert County, who were happy to share their family memories.

"We see it now as a well-known, internationally-known place for people to come and experience these massive tides but when you start talking with the folks in Albert County, the ones that grew up with them, you realise how much this park has been a part of their lives," he said.

"They remember their Sunday school picnics that they held there, the family reunions and those moments that they shared as families inthis special place."

Snair says over the course of putting the book together he has "fallen in love" withnight photography.

"We've got the very rare footage of the northern lights right on the cover," he said.

"When I created that picture my editor got to me right away, as soon as she saw it and she said, 'You do realize that has to be the cover now.'"

Snair says he is always seeing something new at the park, and was ecstatic when he found a family ofperegrine falcons nesting on the rocks again this spring.

"Back on the nest again, with three eggs which will be hatching in about a weeks time so you know those things, they never get old. They really don't."