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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Barred owlets are fairly easy to find if you know where to begin. The group this pair belong to nest in the same stretch of forest every year, which is where I begin. Then, I find them by listening for their distinct, high-pitched screech; a call to let their parents know where they are and, more importantly, that they are hungry! Once they’ve fledged, they hang out low to the ground (sometimes on the ground!) and are active during daylight hours which makes them easy to photograph… as far as wildlife goes.
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  • A small grove of maple trees bursting red with color in fall in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Hadlock Falls seen through the arch of the Waterfall Bridge in fall, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Meetings of natural and human history can be found everywhere in Acadia National Park. These planks are just one of many pre-park remnants that were left to decay into the glacially formed landscape of the Jordan Pond area. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. When photographing I'm always looking for what I think of as an interaction of elements. In this case snow, sand, and water. After a fresh snowfall, which wrapped up just around dawn, the tide began advancing on the beach, forming the freshly fallen snow into lovely ribbons along the shore.
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  • Beach rocks that have found themselves caught in the runoff of a nearby wetland are stained by tannins in Acadia National Park, Isle au Haut, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • A person is silhouetted by the reflection of the moon's light on the ocean, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Lichen drapes the branches of hemlock trees growing from the moss covered forest floor of coastal Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Signs of Acadia's varied geologic history can be found everywhere along the coast or any place with bare, open rock. This intrusion formed after a crack in the bedrock filled with magma. The surf and tides have since smoothed it out. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • The Galactic Center of the Milky Way, surrounded by colorful airglow, seen from the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Arctic Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) perched along the ridge of Sargent Mountain in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • A magma intrusion and polished cobbles formed from the same granite on the coast of Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • A view of Long Pond seen from beech Mountain at sunset in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • High surf batters the shore of Monument Cove in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA.
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  • A close up of a pair of wild Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) interacting with each other on Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine.
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  • Pipewort (Eriocaulon aquaticum) and color from the setting sun are reflected in the still waters of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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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.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. The heads of these plants are frozen in solid ice, their poses preserved for the winter. The illuminated bits of stem are above the surface of the ice, catching the last moments of late afternoon sunlight.
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  • A close up profile of the iconic Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine.
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  • A close up profile of the iconic Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. I always wanted an image of a deer on Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. I knew it was possible, I'd found their tracks in the sand many times. What I never expected was that I'd have that opportunity with a buck with a full, mature set of antlers. The deer held almost perfectly still for just a few moments allowing me to use a long exposure that blurred the ocean behind it, adding interest and an unexpected element to the image.
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  • A portrait of a wild Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) infant of a clean blue background on Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine.
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  • The iconic Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) with a mouth full of fish or sandeels on Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine.
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  • The colorful cobbles found everywhere along Acadia's coast are seen here masked by a thin layer of ice. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee & North Carolina. There were three cubs in this tree. At first, I was trying to make an image that included all three but wasn't having much success. This section of the tree caught my eye, it had a pleasant shape and was clear of obstructions. Rather than trying to force an image that included the three cubs I concentrated on this branch and waited for one of the young bears to climb across it. My patience paid off. A serendipitous moment happened when the bear's pose echoed for a second the shape of the branches. The image, at that point, became about shape and natural design, which the black and white treatment aids.www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Machias Seal Island, Gulf of Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. After photographing the coastal landscape for a while I noticed these unique patterns of bubbles on the surface of the water. The challenge was finding the right settings that would give me enough depth of field (I was above the water looking down but still shooting across it zoomed to over 200mm) while also freezing the movement of the water and without adding too much digital noise. I ended up at 1/1000 sec at f/11, ISO 3200
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. The winter that I photographed this scene was a series temperature fluctuations. Temperatures would rise, rain would fall, snow would melt, low areas would flood, and then the temp would drop again, freezing it all. This happened over and over again. I was exploring an area of forest that had flooded and froze a number of times when I found this leaf, floating in a thin pool of water between two layers of ice.
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  • Polished boulders like the ones seen here are a common sight on Acadia's beaches. They are tumbled around by the surf, grinding them perfectly smooth to the touch. These particular boulders, however, are located at over 200' above sea level inside a shallow cave, an ancient sea cave that during the last ice age sat sea level and took the brunt of the ocean's force.. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. There is a thin line that divides my mood swings. On one side I'm happy, productive, and confident. On the other side, I slip into darkness, drenched with feelings of uselessness and frustration. It can come at any moment, without warning, triggered by the most trivial thing. I feel like I'm at sea with no navigational tools and with no idea when the next storm will arrive.
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  • A dusting of snow covers a beach in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. To show how massive the eddy was I composed it with a wide-angle lens, positioning the cascade that fed it in the background making it appear small and inconsequential compared to the eddy, despite its importance to this phenomenon. This is two images blended for sharpness. The eddy was photographed at f/22 to extend the shutter speed allowing the maximum amount of movement in the slowly spinning pool. The background was photographed at f/11 for sharpness.
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  • Big surf is fairly common along Acadia's coast. It is best on an incoming high tide but that does not always line up with the first light of the day, to have both along with dramatic clouds was a gift. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Machias Seal Island, Gulf of Maine
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  • Machias Seal Island, Gulf of Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. When I found this design I immediately thought of Picasso. Further reflection on the image lead me to the idea of escape (which can be seen both literally and figuratively in the image). All of these ideas combined made me think of my own internal battles with confidence, anxiety, and depression.
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  • Machias Seal Island, Gulf of Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • The Aurora Borealis, along with the Big Dipper, fill the horizon along the shores of Isle au Haut in Acadia National Park, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • A Jonah crab (Cancer borealis), found stranded on one of Acadia National Park's cobbled beaches after high surf, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • The arrangement of the rocks on these beaches changes with every tide. The sculpting of the bedrock happens over centuries in Acadia National Park, Isle au Haut, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • The day’s first light falls on one of the many dramatic coastal beaches of Acadia National Park on Isle au Haut, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • The presence of this round cobble shaped the dampness from the previous tide as it evaporated from the bedrock below in Acadia National Park, Isle au Haut, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Boot Head Preserve, Maine.
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  • Machias Seal Island, Gulf of Maine
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  • Machias Seal Island, Gulf of Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Machias Seal Island, Gulf of Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Predawn light reflects off of sky, land, and sea in Acadia National Park, Isle au Haut, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • The decorative piles of flotsam that lay at the high water mark change with each high tide in Acadia National Park, Isle au Haut, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Lily pads, viewed through a thin layer of ice, in a bog in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Fireflies in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina & Tennessee. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Quoddy Head State Park, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Quoddy Head State Park, Maine.
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  • Quoddy Head State Park, Maine. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Otter Cliffs seen from Boulder Beach at low tide, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Schoodic Peninsula, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Manset, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Boulder Beach, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • The Bowl, a mountain pond, surrounded by fall color with Cadillac Mountain seen in the background in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • A full moon rises on the summer solstice in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • A larch tree backdropped by red berry bushes in fall, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Volcanic and multicolored stones, polished by waves, on a beach in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse under a dramatic sky after a storm in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • The iconic Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse at sunset after a fresh winter snowfall. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • A frog hides under a lilypad in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Boulder Beach, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • A hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus), with a red winterberry in its beak in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Thirteen consecutive frames were focus stacked to create this single image.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Isle au Haut, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Fog, thick as pea soup, as they say, in Little River, near Cutler Harbor in Maine.
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  • Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • With Acadia's extreme tides this colorful tide pool regularly sits well above the water's surface. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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  • Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
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  • Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina & Tennessee. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee & North Carolina. www.jkputnamphotography.com
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