Winter Storm in Acadia National Park
This morning brought the first winter storm of the season to Mount Desert Island. Around noon we drove to the Seawall entrance of Acadia National Park (about 10 minutes by car from our house in Southwest Harbor). I wish we had gone out a few hours earlier when the tide was high to see the waves depositing rocks and a lobster trap up onto Route 102A. The temperature was just around freezing …
Swan’s Island Maine in December
Swan’s Island, Maine in December is a cold place. How cold? When we left Bass Harbor to get on the ferry the temperature was 1°F. That’s pretty cold. And you have to be pretty crazy to go out on a boat in the ocean in that kind of weather. But my friend Howie was on a mission to scout out locations for a photo project he is working on and he asked Janice and I, along with his …
Acadia from Dusk to Dawn
Since moving to Mount Desert Island in September, I have seen some spectacular sunrises and sunsets. Last Saturday November 2, Janice and I went out on one last kayak trip for the season. We chose Seal Cove Pond and what a lucky choice it was. We got on the water about 4:30 PM and an hour later the sky started changing colors and patterns every few minutes. And then it was dark. The …
Fall on Mount Desert Island
Our first fall on Mount Desert Island has been beautiful. The autumn color has lasted for weeks, and there’s still plenty to enjoy. On Friday and Saturday we toured the island and I captured the images on this page using the Canon 5D3 with 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. My new iPhone 5S has served well as an always-at-hand camera, but it can’t compete with the big (and very heavy) full-frame Canon …
Moose Island
Today we had a rare opportunity to visit a private island.The MDI Photo Club arranged the trip by getting permission from the land owners who were kind enough to let us photograph their property. Janice and I, along with our daughter Emma who was home for the long Columbus Day weekend, met the club on the western shore of Mount Desert Island (MDI) about two hours before low tide and waited …
The New Home of George Soules Photography
See that little yellow arrow in the wide image below? That’s where we live now! I snapped this panorama with my iPhone 5S near the peak of Mansell Mountain. I can see this area of open granite from my home office window, and it can see our house in Southwest Harbor. The body of water in the foreground is the southern end of Long Pond. The other images (all shot with iPhones except for Janice …
Church Street, Burlington Vermont
Yesterday I went to Burlington, Vermont and hung out on Church Street. The purpose of the visit was to try the Fuji X-E1 camera that my friend Werner and I rented. I wanted to see how well it would work for street photography. Below are some of the images I shot to test out the camera, see what it was like to use, and find out what kind of images I could get from it.
Walk Around Lens for New York City
New York is so nice they had to name it twice (so says Nina Hagen). I love walking around in New York City. Everywhere you go there’s something interesting to see. And photograph. For a trip to Manhattan last month, I took just one walk around lens. The large image below and the other interior shots are of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). I like to imagine that the women with red hair is …
Golden Hour in New York City
In photography, the golden hour (sometimes known as magic hour) is the first and last hour of sunlight during the day when a specific photographic effect is achieved due to the quality of the light [wikipedia]. Last month I had opportunities to shoot at both dusk and dawn in New York City. Most of us are already awake at dusk, but getting those early morning shots of the first light requires …