Tag: acadia national park

A couple of weeks ago I posted about my experience of seeing the very early sunrise from Cadillac Mountain in Maine (The Sun Shall Rise). I’ve never taken so many photos of a single sunrise, so there are lots more to share! We were lucky enough to get a gorgeous day for this event, which provided plenty of opportunities.

Here’s an image that I took a little later than the one in the other post…

As the sun was getting higher into the sky, I noticed this couple admiring the amazing view over the water. This immediately gave me the idea for this shot, so I took my tripod and camera to find the right spot. Lucky for me, they were mesmerized and didn’t move!

If I could have posed them, I would prefer them to be a bit close to each other, but beggars…

What I enjoy most about getting shots like this is the sense of scale that we can provide as humans. We’re wanderers within a vast universe. I’m always filled with awe about how much there is to discover and learn about our cosmos, so let’s keep exploring and learning!

During the long winter time, we might feel that there is just not enough sun to offset the darkness. For a bit of balance, today’s post is all about sunrise, and a very early one at that. During the summer of 2021, I joined John Slonina for a short tour of Acadia National Park in the great state of Maine. The park is situated on Mount Desert Island, which is the largest island off the coast of Maine. It is an amazing place to visit any time of year. Among the many sights, there is the sunrise view from Cadillac Mountain, which is the earliest sunrise in the country from October 7 to March 6.

Let’s take a look at a sunrise in June…

You have to get up really early for the sunrise in June. Getting up at 2:30am, we found our spot on the mountain before 4:00am. I took close to 200 exposures of different phases of the sunrise, ranging from pre-dawn to well past sunrise.

This particular image was captured at 5:50am, as the cloud cover started getting more definition. I will definitely feature more images from this series.