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Staying with the theme of Acadia National Park, today’s shot is another image from the same trip. As I mentioned in my earlier post, we didn’t prepare at all for the trip other than for booking a bed and breakfast. The lack of a plan extended to the photo locations as well, I used to belong to the school of run and gun philosophy of photography at that time. I had no plans and when I saw an interesting spot, I had a bad case of FOMO and didn’t know when to stop. It was probably brutal for my wife as I would stay in one location and take about 300 images because I didn’t know when to stop. Because of this approach, we missed a lot of nice spots in the park. Now that I look back at the images from the trip, of 1248 images, I only have a handful of images that I would consider worthy of posting.

When I look at my recent trips, the numbers of photos tend to be much lower, and I have a high number of keepers from those trips. The main difference has been a change in my approach to photography. It went from a selfish endeavor with the sole purpose of making me happy to truly appreciating the beauty of nature and sharing it with the people I love. So rather than expecting nature to cooperate with my whims, and I adjusted my photography to suit the conditions. My two-hour rants about the conditions not being up to par were gone, and I am pretty sure this change was a major reason why my wife decided to stick with me.

Acadia National Park as the sun sets behind me on a cloudy evening there along the Atlantic Ocean. The LE really smoothed out the ocean nicely,...