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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 [...]

The Power of Nik (Razorbills and Puffin)

January 2010 Version Above/June 2009 Version Below

RAZORBILLS ABOVE/PUFFINS BELOW

January 2010 Version Above/June 2009 Version Below

Over the past several years I upgraded to Photoshop CS4, added then upgraded Lightroom, added plug-ins like Neat Image and the complete Topaz Suite, none of these has impressed me as much as the Nik Software Complete Collection. For those of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Two for the Road

(These two images are Copyright Ed Vatza 2009. Usage without my prior written approval is prohibited.)

Well, today is our last day in Bar Harbor. Tomorrow at 0500 we will be on the road and heading back home. Weatherwise, there were some good days and some not so good. But in the final analysis, we got [...]

View from Otter Cliffs (Acadia National Park)

(This image is Copyright Ed Vatza 2009. Usage without my prior written approval is prohibited.)

A couple of days ago, I posted an image of Otter Cliffs taken from the cobble beach along Ocean Drive in Acadia National Park. Now I am presenting an image I made today that shows the view from Otter Cliffs looking [...]

Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule)

Lady’s Slipper #1 (1/50 sec @ f/4; ISO 800; -1/3 EV; Natural light)

Lady’s Slipper #2 (1/40 sec @ f/5.0; ISO 800; -1/3 EV;Natural light)

(These two images are Copyright Ed Vatza 2009. Usage without my prior written approval is prohibited.)

Vacation is winding down. Tomorrow, Tuesday, will be our last day in Bar Harbor/Acadia. We will be [...]

Otter Cliffs (Acadia NP) at Sunrise from the Cobble Beach

(This image is Copyright Ed Vatza 2009. Usage without my prior written approval is prohibited.)

We were up at 3:15 and scrambling down to the cobble beach along the Ocean Trail around 4:15 this morning. The skies were cloudier than I had hoped for so I decided to shoot some images from which I could then [...]

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