Bar Harbor Inn

This one of my favorite images of town, taken on the same pier the 151' four-masted schooner Margaret Todd sails from. The ship's wheel (possibly her old one?) used to be a beautiful natural brown, but looks like it's been painted. That's unfortunate.

Venus Sunrise

You know how sometimes something gets in your head and you just can't get rid of it? Here's another example. This image -- or rather this idea -- of a nude female torso in a surrealistic landscape has been with me almost as long as the original image of the monolith I did a few sessions ago. So, I went to a statue website this morning and grabbed an image of a Venus de Milo torso statue (which, oddly enough, is exactly as I'd drawn it!), jumped into Photoshop with it and my original monolith picture, and here we have it. The overall setting is different than the original drawing I did, but as all my drawings were lost in a disastrous move, I'm having to improvise here. I added the oversized moon in as a visual stimulant to create the surrealistic landscape.

Morning on Long Pond

This is the shot I tried to get last weekend, when I ended up with the Somesville Pond shot. It was a glorious morning, complete with a Piper Super Cruiser floatplane landing and tying up to the dock earlier. Woo hoo! I started to go into Bar Harbor this morning to shoot, then changed my mind suddenly for no apparent reason. Sometimes you gotta listen to the little voice.


Okay, I couldn't let it go without putting in a picture of the floatplane, so here it is taxiing in. I couldn't have timed my arrival any better.


These guys were heading to a floatplane fly-in in central Maine this morning, and it was all I could do not to jump in with them. Not enough room, though -- or power. Damn!


And, of course, I couldn't let it go at that. Here it is taxiing out for takeoff. Nice lighting, don't you think?

Stella

This is Stella, the Arnold's TV & Video mascot. Of the eight pictures I took of her in this episode, this was the clearest one. Such a little wigglebutt.

The Duncan Cairn

Hey, I don't fool around when I build a trail navigation device! Actually, this is a pile of rocks we're going to use to "pave" the eroded runoff area you can see behind it. I put each and every rock in place securely so I could walk on it while unloading other rocks from the highline, an overhead cable transportation system. (The stakes on the silt fence are four feet tall, if that gives you any sense of scale.)

Dinner Time

While preparing for a dinner of soft chicken tacos, my olive oil came up with this image. I like it

Legomaniac

I have this insane need to build things -- especially airplanes -- and Legos fill the bill nicely. I always build the kit as it comes first, then change it around a bit everytime I build it, as I did with this one. I lengthened the upper wing and fuselage, beefed up the landing gear, then added a swiveling gun turret.


Here's a closer view (taken in macro with my new camera) of the gun turret I designed, which actually swivels without knocking the pilot in the head. That would be a bad thing.


Here's a closer view of the cockpit, complete with instrument panel. The macro feature of my new camera amazes me.

Somesville Pond

I decided my new camera needed an official outing this morning, so I headed over to Long Pond to shoot a pier for a poster project, but the wind was kicking up an ruining the water's surface. On the way back, however, I came across this shot in Somesville. No wind here.

The Real Test

Okay, I just couldn't let the new kid on the block strut its stuff with a simple shot of a crossword puzzle and a cup of coffee, so I took it outside to the golf course and shot these moguls at sunrise. Much more effective, I'd say. This shot is not at its highest setting, but I don't have a memory stick for it yet so I cut it back some as I'm utilizing its 64MB internal memory. Once I do get a memory stick, it's no holds barred.

The Day Begins

This was actually just a test shot for my new Sony Cyber-shot camera I just received. Most of the future shots here will be taken with it.

Morning Clouds

I stepped out of the apartment this morning and found these altocumulus clouds in the sky. I just love these guys.

St Croix Island

I'm currently one of the Acadia Youth Conservation Corps leaders (for kids 15-18 years old), and we were all sent to St Croix yesterday on a work detail. Well, we never actually made it to the island, but we could see it from Red Beach where the work was, on the US side of the St Croix waterway. That's St Croix Island -- the first French settlement in the New World -- in the middle of the river, with Canada on the other side.

Anemone Cave

Just in case you were wondering what the shot in Anemone Cave was that I was so hot to get, here it is. This is a contrast nightmare, trying to get the cave entrance itself and the ocean and sky to come out right. Looks like a job for Photoshop.

Tidepool

I went to Anemone Cave this morning to re-shoot an exit shot I thought I really liked, and ended up liking this one even more. I especially love the spectral highlight.

Nursery Stump

The concept of a nursery stump -- where new trees grow out of the remains of the old -- is something has always fascinated me, ever since I first came across them at Mt Rainier. This one really went crazy.

Homan's Path

This is a trail we did some drainage work on today, and one which is made up of many, many steps. Many, many steps. This is one of the more picturesque sections.

Toby

An artist friend of mine back in Marfa, Texas, had a great picture of goats on her website today (http://www.mhughes.com), so I thought I'd put my two cents in. I took this shot a couple of years ago, but it remains one of my favorites to this day. Hi, Martha!

Little Moose Island

Little Moose Island is a small island over in the Schoodic district of Acadia, and is only accessible at low tide via a bar of rocks, unless you have a boat. It wasn't quite low tide yesterday when I visited it, so I waded across in mid-thigh-deep water to get over there and take pictures. This was one of my favorites.

Disaster Strikes

The "Bringer Of Life And All That Is Good" got a little carried away this morning and pulled a Vesuvius. (Actually, I forgot to close the filter basket fully in my haste for goodness.)

Zac's Bogus Adventure

I've been leading Youth Conservations Corps (YCC) kids around doing trail work for the last two weeks. I let one of them pilot what is known as a Grillo dumper on an errand to move unwanted material from the trail to a staging area in the Long Pond parking lot. Along the way, misfortune struck. We were able to extricate the machine from the creek and lo and behold, it was fine. Big day.