A bright and sunny day ... damnit!
Photographers are seldom happy and it’s all about the light.
Today dawns fine and clear so there are no nice misty harbour shots first thing in the morning.
We decide to go back up Cadillac Mountain to see if there are some nice views. There was so much fog and rain yesterday that I couldn’t even see the small island only 200 metres offshore much less the views from the drive up the mountain.
Today there is no such problem and the smog which blows up from the south doesn’t seem to be a worry either. Apparently 85% of the smog in Maine is created outside the state ...
There a couple of cruise ships in harbour, one big one and one little one. In summer there are as many as three a day and the island makes most of its’ money in about 8 months or less during the tourist season.
Some people move south and have a second job for that time but others just have four months off.
Yesterday we were talking to another professional photographer who was also out getting coloured foliage photos and he was concerned as to whether the colour was even going to last another 24 hours. Apparently it turns very quickly.
I don’t know whether it’s my imagination or not, and there are still individual trees which are bright red and yellow, but the overall feeling is that generally the colours are now more brown.
The colour phenomenon is quite interesting ... apparently it is diminishing over time and is expected to slowly disappear in the next couple of hundred years or so. The trees with yellow colouring are the first to colonize an area and have the yellow colour in their leaves all year, it’s just hidden by the green, which is chlorophyll. The chlorophyll is a nutrient that the tree moves from the leaves to the roots to store over winter so the green goes away and the yellow remains. The red trees need more shelter and develop after the yellow ones have taken over an area. The red is not present all year but as the trees move the green chlorophyll to their roots they need to protect the leaves so they generate a red “sunscreen”.
We are doing a circumnavigation of the island today and on our way we are able to see some of the coastline up close.
There is one bay called “Sandy Beach” as it is the only sandy beach in this part of the world but it doesn’t even come close to Oz.
We also pass by the really nice garden we stopped at in the rain yesterday. It is based on a Japanese design and is apparently the monied corner of the island.
The colours and the reflections are certainly clearer today
But there was something about the mistiness that I quite liked.
So I take all same photos just to make sure I have covered all the bases. There are a few more detail shots I like as well.
The colours do seem to be washing out a little
We have one more day here and then cross back to the mainland.
I hope it hangs on just a little longer...
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