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- Richard Jefferies.
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My wife and I have been traveling together for eight years now, and we sometimes sit together and look back at the pictures we have on our trips. There are some trips where we don’t much, and then there are trips that are etched vividly in our memories. I think after eight years, we have finally cracked the secret. Trips that go perfectly according to the plan are the ones which we don’t remember very well as opposed to trips where nothing went according to plan. We started noticing this on our first trip together, and after eight years and countless trips together, I can confidently say there is some merit to this theory.
Our first trip together was to visit the beautiful Acadia National Park. There was not much planning involved, and we struggled during this trip. One of the spots I had in mind for this trip was the pinnacle of Cadillac Mountain, as it's touted as the first place to see the morning sun anywhere in the United States. We thought the hard part of this would be waking up at 5 am as you can drive straight up the top of the mountain. It was stunning to see the view from the top, and the light was magnificent but what took us off guard was the cold. The top of the mountain was bitterly cold, and the strong winds coming off the Atlantic didn’t help either. We were unprepared for the wind in our wool coats and beat a hasty retreat after just a few shots. We ended up in a small and cozy breakfast spot that served nice hot coffee and blueberry pancakes made with fresh blueberries from their backyard. We still remember this trip so clearly that we compare the bone-chilling cold we experienced here whenever we are getting ready for a sunrise shot.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Morning stretches across Acadia, Maine. Such a beautiful location for sunrise. Will return (hopefully sooner than later ...)
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,...
Acadia National Park, Maine, view from the top of Gorham Mountain, a midget of a peak at 160m. altitude, reached by a 20 minute hike up, looking...
Sunrise in Acadia National Park, Maine.
Trip to Acadia is incomplete without visiting Bass Harbor Head Light. It is relatively a small light house but offers great view of the harbor side....
Sunrise at Bar Harbor. During the day tons of people who visit this small town, but at sunrise hardly anyone there. Many people missed another...
Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.
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Posting two panoramic stitched shots taken the same morning at Acadia National Park. The blue hour photo was taken about 30 minutes prior to the red...
A view of Winter Harbor, Mt Desert Narrows seen from the vantage point of Raven's Nest on the Schoodic Peninsula. Fog ever present on the day :) -...
A pretty morning to be out on the rocks in this pretty part of Maine.
Always a pleasure to spend time in this place while watching the sunset happen !
Parked in Bass Harbour
Looking at Behive Mountain from Sand Beach in Acadia Maine
jenn and i spent some really fun time shooting the starry sky , here's a shot of Jenn posing with the beautiful night sky.
- Chinese Proverb.
-Khalil Gibran.
Waterfall Bridge, Acadia National Park, ME
I took this shot while I visited Acadia National Park last October. I was hoping to catch the great fall colors Maine is famous for but the leaves hadn’t turned yet and it was a bit disappointing. On the second day there we took a walk among the carriage paths of Acadia and came across this beautiful waterfall.
There are two bridges very close to each other which act as a vantage point for a small and a large waterfall. The small waterfall was way too dry to get a shot of but this one didn’t disappoint. The water quantity was just right and the fall was indeed pretty tall. I got of the vantage point and went to the bottom of the falls for this shot used a polarizer and a 0.9 ND filter to slow the shutterspeed.
Missing Maine a little, so I figured I go back and post a shot from this past summer's trip to New England. This was taken in the morning along the...
Acadia National Park, Maine, view from the top of Gorham Mountain, a midget of a peak at 160m. altitude, reached by a 20 minute hike up, 180° view...
Jordan Pond and The Bubbles during sunset at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.
Tonemapped HDR, obviously :-)
Boulder Beach during Sunrise at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.
This composition taken early morning in Acadia National Park, Maine is a lower perspective that is down in the rocks there along the Atlantic Ocean....
This is a particularly pleasing view from Raven's Nest. The Sun was able to peek through every now and then through the mist and clouds. The tide...
Another from my weekend with Moe in Acadia National Park. Interesting sunrise; thought it was going to be a complete bust. Those low-lying clouds...
Acadia National Park, Maine, view from the top of Gorham Mountain, a midget of a peak at 160m. altitude, reached by a 20 minute hike up, looking...
There isn't a better place to be while witnessing a beautiful moment, whether big or small, dramatic or subtle. While dinner was being consumed the...
Overlooking Jordan Pond in autumn colours in Acadia National Park. The water in the pond is very clean - so much so that it is used as the water...
Bass Harbor Headlight at sunset !
The Somesville Bridge, one of the most photographed bridges in Maine is located within the charming Village of Somesville on Mount Desert Island. The...
A view of wooded landscape from under the Cobblestone Bridge during Autumn at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.
- Richard M. Nixon.
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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.
- Jewish Proverb.
Sand Beach, Acadia National park.
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The majority of time we spent camping in Acadia National Park consisted of this weather. I made the best of it and braved the mosquitos one evening...
Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. I seemed to have found it here along the Maine Coast in Acadia National Park :))
First time I've ever been to this place and it's not crazy windy in beautiful Acadia National Park
Jordan Pond and The Bubbles during sunset at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.
Acadia National Park, Maine, view from the top of Gorham Mountain, a midget of a peak at 160m. altitude, reached by a 20 minute hike up, looking...
It was a very nice day in Acadia National Park :)
Bass Harbor Lighthouse, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA.
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Sunrise with the Schooner "Margaret Todd" at Bar Harbor. During the day tons of people who visit this small town, but at sunrise hardly anyone there....
While driving away from the Bass Harbor Lighthouse we ran into this place just in time for sunset , it was a very nice surprise !!
At sunset near Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park !
During the day busloads and cruise ships of tourists who visit Bar Harbor, gateway to Acadia National Park, but very early in the morning before...
Possibly the most recognizable feature of Acadia National Park. This was the only sunrise I actually saw of the four days I camped. The rest of the...
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