Over and Out

Sitting here at the lobby of the Days-Inn at a town near Boston, where we arrived today after noon (another sunrise shoot for me, as Gilad decided to sleep it out this time, wasn't as good or cold as yesterday). We drove 280 miles and walked a bit at the Downtown Crossing. After that we when to one of the only kosher deli restaurant in the area "Rubin's Kosher Delicatessen" and had a pretty good meal. By afternoon tomorrow and after another 230 miles we'll be home.
I hope you've enjoyed this small blog, still don't what will be next, but I guess I'll do the same with the the longer west coast trip I'm planning, which is still dateless at the moment.

See you later,

Itai

Dogs Cold

Wind and rain ruled the day, so not much photography today. Yesterday's sunrise at Mount Cadillac was a delight summer breeze in comparison to today's gushing winds (luckally it started raining only at around 9). On the other hand, we we're rewarded in an absolutely stunning sunrise. The wind almost knocked down my tripod and camera, had to hold it down during the exposure.

Later we headed to boulder beach as the weather declined. Got myself and my gear wet (and salty...) shooting too close to the water. We hoped that the sun will give us another appearance, but there was no sunshine till the end of the day. Guess we had to have at least one day like this..

At the end on the day we found ourselves at Schoodic Point, which is the only part of the park that isn't on the island.

'Building tall' crashing waves and our trusty GPS (a.k.a the incredible time saver) ...





Tomorrow, all the way to Boston.

Waves and Faces

Another predawn morning for us, making it possible to shoot the sunrise from mount Cadillac. The first place the sun is visible in the usa.

Bubble pond and Jordan Pond were next, followed by the Park Loop Road (two one way lanes) that runs along the coast making it very easy to just stop anywhere and photograph. Thunder Hole, Otter Point and Sand Beach as well. Then we turned to the villages of Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Seawall and Bass Harbor. All nice looking fishing villages that smell like fish everywhere. Our Last stop of the day was sunset at the Bass Harbor Head-Light, one of the most popular lighthouses of Maine. The streets are completely dark at around 17:10, crazy..




Along Ocean Drive.

By popular demand, a picture of a person. Don't know if it has the 'localisem' that you all imagine but this is Arthur, he owns the "Little-Notch -Bread" bakery at Somesville. And as he saw my camera he laid out his history with Seven Canon cameras he once had, and why he didn't want to sell postcards for a buck and a half. He was also very thrilled to tell me that his new camera has this amazing little thing that can remove the red-eye when the image is taken. "At least I have my bakery", he ended.

Maine Street

What, no input on the previous post?

Anyway,
A lot of driving has been done today. Around 250 miles from northern New Hampshire to East of Maine. To Acadia National Park, Our last major stop, we arrived at about 15:00 after gaining an hour of sleep last night (back to seven hours, Israel..).

Finding a motel here was more difficult than expected, almost 90% of the lodging here is closed for the season. Good thing we called in advance.

We did manage to go up to Mount Cadillac for a quick sunset viewing and taking a few pictures.

Tomorrow and the day after, we will explore the island and the park, and on Wednesday we will start our two day returning drive.




Taken with Singh-Ray 3 stop hard edge, GND, and car head lights to lit the rocky foreground.

Thoughts and Pictures

In every city, town or village, there is the the local gift store. We had a chance to visit many of these during this trip. In every one the is usually the section of the local book describing why this place is the best place. There are also these photo books, with glorious images (mostly nature) of the given state usually. In most cases this is the highest level of nature photography, though usually under estimated. In every place I visit, naturally I want to capture things the best I can, being inspired and guided by these books and photographers quite a lot. The more land I cover here, the more I see it's impossible. Not because of my skills (though probably too) but because I don't live here. All of the photographers that specialise in a specific place, is in most cases a resided of that area, so they have all year long, with all four seasons. If it's Darwin Wigget photographing the Canadian Rockies living in Alberta, or David Middelton living in Vermont (no room for comparison), and the list goes on (even those who don't live near by, usually have periodically access to their certain area). So is it possible to be this kind of photographer from two weeks (or three months) of travelling? no matter how photo oriented the trip is. Am I waisting my time (obviously I'm not moving here, and in the moment Israel doesn't have the kind of scenes you see here)? As you can see, this chain of thoughts consists of much (much) more variables, and is written here pretty raw, but in essence this is it.

I will leave you with some views of North Conway, New Hampshire.


Have a great week.


Itai

Cross Country

Today we crossed from Vermont to New Hampshire. Not much visual difference between the two, but in seems that the New-Hampshire's are a bit more organized. At least in their tourism section. In the Morning we were lucky (yes, lucky) enough to come to Moss Glen Falls after the rain (and a bit during). Rain changes a lot of colors in the landscape and brings out all the birds after it.

Our first photography stop in NH was the Franconia Notch Basin (thanks Arnie for the recommendation). A great rock shaped waterfall.

Now we're in the not so little town of Littleton. Where we will probably stay for the weekend.




Pemigewasset River near the Basin, Franconia Notch SP, NH. (Infrared)




SHBTSHLM,

Itai

From Urban to Nature

For all of you that are still here, today began at the Shelburne Farm. Since 1886 they are operate as a high end (1400 acres) dairy farm for the greater area, and since 1972 they are also a non-profit environmental education center. We could have come here yesterday evening, but the sun was in the wrong place, so this morning it was well situated (for the most part, it's hard to anticipate a location you haven't been in before).


The Farm Barn. A Ten vertical shot stitched panorama.




After that we took some time at the Burlington downtown, just to find some more Israelis at Starbucks and people all dressed up for Halloween eve.


This guy was giving a private concert to a toddler and here father, playing "Old MacDonald" Bob Dylan Style.




The Drive to Bingham Falls wasn't to long passing by yesterday's notch again (which looked different that time of day). Bingham Falls is a series of cascades in a narrow gorge, with lots of rocks and boulders, so it's a different scape for the usual waterfall.






Evening came and on our way to the second Moss Glen Falls, we spotted this ranch in front of the soon to become a sunset view. Now we're in the snowless sky town Stowe, and it's empty and cheap motels. Moss Glen will be tomorrow morning and New Hampshire right after that.



My first try with a graduated neutral density filter (Singh-ray 3 stop hard-edge, to be exact).