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Reflections on Acadia

It was a tough weekend. Between some lousy weather and other commitments, I didn’t get a single image made this weekend. So today I started to look forward to our October 2010 trip to Acadia National Park (ME) and reflect back on our last visit in June 2009. I looked through some of my images [...]

Can’t Tell the Forest from the Trees?

(1/2 sec @ f/8; ISO 125; 0 EV; Cloudy WB)

How about something a little different!

We had a great day Saturday up in the Delaware Water Gap. I loved having the opportunity to photograph those waterfalls. But I did shoot more than just waterfalls that morning. This particular image was made along the trail out to [...]

Digital Art Alert – Rocky Coast of Maine (Before & After)

This is another example of going back to rework an image that I didn’t feel could stand on its own. This image was made shortly after sunrise on the Cobble Beach off of Ocean Drive in Acadia National Park back during our June vacation. I had finished a series of images of Otter Cliffs from [...]

Stanley Brook Bridge (Acadia National Park, ME)

(Three exposure composite 1/15 sec @ f/11; ISO 640; 0 EV; FL 24mm and two other exposures at +1 and -1 EV.)

Another image resurrected from our June trip to Acadia. This is one of a series of beautiful stone bridges hand made by Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s workmen along the carriage roads in Acadia National [...]

Hadlock Falls in Acadia National Park (HDR and Topaz Adjust)

Hey Friends,

I really need some help with this one. I’m really not sure what to make of this image.

The original image is from our trip to Acadia back in June. This time we were a day early and a dollar short rather than a day a late. The day after we hiked up to the [...]

(Not Quite) An HDR Tutorial (Otter Cove, Acadia N.P., Maine)

It’s more like a detailed example.

I have had several requests for more information on how I make my HDR images and I promised to post the details at some later date. I guess this is that later date. I will tell you now that there is a “black box” stage in producing the images where [...]

IR Alert: Lobster Boats on a Stormy Day

(1/8 sec at f/11; ISO 200; +2 EV)

I was looking back over images from our early June vacation to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park and this image, along with several others from the same day, brought a reminiscent smile to my face. And I might add, a scowl to my wife’s face. It is [...]

Tranquility

1/50 sec @ f/11; ISO 400; 0 EV; Natural light

This is an oft photographed and oft painted scene – the foot bridge and Selectmen’s House in Somesville, Maine. Somesville is actually the oldest village on Mount Desert Island, home of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. We stopped by on our way to Southwest Harbor [...]

More Puffins from Machias Seal Island

“The Maestro”

“The Olympic Diver” preparing for an inward two-and-a-half.

“The Squawker”

“Shy One”

I’ve been working my way through the images made on our recent visit to Bar Harbor/Acadia and Machias Seal Island. Here are a few more Puffin images for your viewing pleasure. (At least I hope you find it a pleasure!)

All images were shot from a [...]

Mr & Mrs Photographer

While I take the time needed to process other images from among the well over 1,000 that I made during our stay in Bar Harbor/Acadia, I thought I would give you this image of my wife and me sitting on a rock atop Cadillac Mountain on our last day of vacation.

I made this image with [...]

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