Sand Beach & Old Soaker

Sand Beach is one of just a few cold water, shell-based sand beaches in the world. Typically, shells completely dissolve in cold water, but Old Soaker, the island on the horizon of this image, creates a current that collects tiny particles of shell that haven’t had the chance to fully dissolve and diverts them into the glacially carved cove, Sand Beach, where they become trapped. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Three consecutive frames were focus stacked to create this single image in order to achieve sharpness from foreground to background.

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Copyright: John K. Putnam
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Sand Beach is one of just a few cold water, shell-based sand beaches in the world. Typically, shells completely dissolve in cold water, but Old Soaker, the island on the horizon of this image, creates a current that collects tiny particles of shell that haven’t had the chance to fully dissolve and diverts them into the glacially carved cove, Sand Beach, where they become trapped. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Three consecutive frames were focus stacked to create this single image in order to achieve sharpness from foreground to background.