MaineSight

I took a short sunset paddle tonight in Frenchman Bay. I’ve never photographed while paddling, but I decided to try to get over my inhibition about mixing salt water with photography. I’m still nervous while attempting to photograph while paddling—even though it was calm when I went out. I’m constantly paranoid I am going to drop the camera or capsize as compose a photo.

Here are a few photos from a day trip to Little Cranberry Island, Maine. On the south shore of the island, there is an amazing 2 km long beach littered with small smoothed stones polished from many tidal cycles.

The view of the bubbles from the south end of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park. A great place to end a hike—they have fantastic tea and popovers, and kids can run around on the lawn and rumpus. This photo was taken with a Canon G10 on a tripod while I stood in the middle of the pond to get this perspective.

At low tide, there are hundreds of these starfish on the barnacle encrusted rocks in Hancock, Maine. I’ve read (in a book by Thorton W. Burgess) that a single arm of a starfish can re-grow an entire new starfish. How does that happen? Wouldn’t that mean that the starfish’s arm has to first grow a new stomach so that it can gather food for what must be a pretty seriously energy intensive re-building process?

I’m a little delinquent on updates, even though I’ve been shooting almost every day for the last few weeks. This photo is from inside Fort Knox in Prospect, Maine. Since I didn’t have much time (the “three F’s” again!), I handheld this at ISO 1600. I could spend hours back here with a tripod making photos someday…