We had a few more inches last night, but today the sun came out and the temperature got high enough to do some melting. I was able to clear most of the ice from the edge of the roof and out of about half of the gutter above my study where I had the ice dams and water entered the house. Fingers crossed that whatever remains of winter will be less dramatic than the last month.
So I’m still in reminisce mode. A few years back I had one day at Acadia after a visit to Millinocket and Baxter State Park. It was a bit stormy, but for a few moments a sliver opened and allowed a little brightness to hit Otter Ledges. F/16 @.6 seconds, ISO 400 was just enough to catch the waves crashing against the rocks.
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We will get back to that nice stuff.
Not much promise for nice stuff in the 8-14 day temperature outlook. Also check out Alaska. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/814day/814temp.new.gif
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If you can see this, it might make you feel better. Owls Head light house. https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1795699_681896735214580_1669980463946787661_n.jpg?oh=f2b0a678522df88435eb7517f6389bd2&oe=5552154A
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I thought that it was going to be the image from Norway, I think, that had a lighthouse and its approach totally coated in ice.
Nice flashback to warmer days. Thanks, Jim.
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If I am reading this correctly, Alaska is melting while we are freezing.
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Like last year, Alaska is warm, we are cold.
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A fine rebuttal to those who look at our colder than normal winter and say “climate change is just a big hoax”. Seems like it is changing for sure. The only debate possible is whether humans are responsible and I think the jury has spoken on that already.
🙂
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Do owls exist? … hmm let’s see.
John did such a great job there. I love it.
Thanks, Steve.
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Wonderful wave action, Steve, though it somehow doesn’t look all that warm…BTW, I’m curious about the name. Having recently been to California and communing with sea otters there, do they frequent the Maine coast as well, or do your river otters venture out to sea, or was this a bit of whimsy on the part of some early explorer?
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It was October, so not sweltering, but it was pleasant and much warmer than now, for sure.
There are no sea otters there, but the various locales which feature the name are referring to river otters although I don’t think they are found in the saltwater.
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Aha! Whimsy after all. The prosecution rests.
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Oh, now that I like quite well. Beautiful, dynamic, shot. Glad you’ve taken time to reach back into the archives. I hope to have some time at the coast this summer … this image reminds me of the possibilities. We had more mild temperatures today … but we’ll be down below zero tonight. Got the plow on the tractor on Saturday because I thought there would be something to plow today … but it wasn’t to be. Just cold. D
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These reminiscences are partly due to winter doldrums and partly to organizing the files to import into Lightroom. I have a lot of sorting, culling and metadata creation to catch up on before getting started with LR.
We had our snow overnight and for a short time in the morning followed by a nice warmish day. The zeros return tonight but minimal if any snow in the week’s forecast. 😀
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great with all that movement in the waves.
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Thanks, Bente. I have a series of these, but I think I like this the better.
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Fabulous! It’s been a tough winter for sure…
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Thanks, Karen. That is an understatement. I think we all complain about the weather, but with much justification this year.
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That’s stunning! You caught that wave action perfectly.
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Thanks, Lyle. It was a fun and exciting experience on the rocks.
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Now your talking. THIS IS EXCELLENT! Have you posted this before? I think this should be in your show/exhibit.
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Thanks, Yvonne!!! Not this one. I have posted another although I have never made a print. Here is a similar image on my website. I think I have done a better job processing this one.
Thanks for the suggestion of including it in the exhibit. If I am accepted, the display will be in the Town Hall and I am trying to keep the images local, but maybe I could sneak a couple in from elsewhere. 🙂
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I like the way the dark clouds set off those bright wave bursts and their backflow into the ocean.
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My other favorite of this shoot has the wave crashing in the foreground, but I think I prefer this with the backflow. Getting the clouds to display neutral and not blue was a pain in WP.
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Such a beautiful photo. I love the coast, but have to look elsewhere for dramatic photos of waves and such. Our Texas coast has its charms, but it tends to be flat, shallow, and subtle. 😉
I had to smile at the coincidence. This is from Acadia, and I was in Acadia Parish last weekend for Mardi Gras. I stayed in Crowley, ate crawfish in Eunice, and celebrated in Church Point — all within the Parish boundaries. But Acadia Parish is prairie, rice, cattle and crawfish. There weren’t any waves like this on the crawfish ponds!
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Thanks, Linda.
I rarely travel, so this place is special enough to me that I will leave home to spend some time there. Coasts like yours are great for making soft, contemplative images that can border on the abstract when composed for that and with the use of a long exposure.
I have heard of Acadia Parish. I believe the pronunciation is just a bit different. In Maine it is uh-kay-dee-uh and I think in your area it is Acca- dee-uh? There is some crawfish but mostly there is lobster and crab. And with that. it is almost lunch time here. No seafood, but I am having something more southwestern….a chicken quesadilla with medium hot salsa.
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Nope. It’s uhKAYdeeuh here, too. Also: uhkaydeeANuh. And uhKaydeeuns. 🙂
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Hmmm….I wonder why I have heard it differently. Maybe in some music. Now I know better. 🙂
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Well, different people, different pronunciations, I suppose. My last name gets four pronunciations. I just smile and accept them all.
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Yep. Mine has a hard G in both spots, but sometimes the first is mistakenly pronounced as if it is a J which caused me to be called “Jingles” in elementary school. As they say, call me anything you wish, just don’t call me late for dinner.
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A common pronunciation of Acadian led to the form Cajun (compare Injun from Indian).
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Now, that makes me smile. I never turned Indian into Injun, but always pronoune “engine” as “injun.” I can’t seem to get it right. It drove my mother crazy. Here’s one of a thousand exchanges between us:
Me: “I’m taking the car over to the shop. The [injun] doesn’t sound right.
Her: What? Are its feathers ruffled?
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Can we assume that your feather sometimes got ruffled from interchanges like that one?
As for turning engine into injun, let’s say you were practicing New Zealand pronunciation.
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This looks like a painting Steve. It looks textured and the spray is wonderful. Perfect timing.
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Thanks, Andrew. I got lucky with the exposures. I was standing next to another photographer (something I rarely do) and the two of us kept ooohing and ahhhing with each wave.
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