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Deer Isle View
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Tom O'Donnell (gunbud)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 4477 W: 4 N: 3997]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (18137) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-06-20 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-07-15 3:19 |
| Viewed: 306 |
| Points: 16 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The mainstay of Deer Isle, and any number of Down East towns, the lobster fishery today is as
regulated as it is ubiquitous. Every other house on the island seems to have a neatly stacked
wall of lobster traps in the backyard. Clusters of lobster-trap buoys hang like bunches of
enormous bright orange or yellow or chartreuse grapes from the sides of barns and houses and
from the limbs of trees. Lobster boats float at anchor in every harbor, and the sight of one
slowly cruising across the bay, or its lone captain pulling up a trap in heavy fog, suggests the
essence of Deer Isle.
For visitors, the main attraction is the scenery. Over the course of an hour viewing conditions
can change from opaque to crystalline, from a fog so thick you can't see your feet to a blinding
dazzle of sunlight on water. White spruce dominates the rocky shoreline, which gives way
inland to areas wooded with increasingly larger stands of aspen and white birch, sprinkled with
tamarack. Very few structures impose themselves on the scenery, for the better part of the out
islands, as well as Deer Isle itself, remains uninhabited. From just about anyplace you're likely
to see a seal pop its inquisitive, whiskered face out of the water. Harbor porpoises, their blackYou can walk for miles along the shoreline here, especially during low water, when the beaches
along the island seem to quadruple in size, and to get from here to there you needn't stroll
across somebody's lawn or scale a sheer rock face. From the Haystack Mountain School of
Crafts campus in Sunshine, on the east side of the island, one can walk for a mile across pink
granite boulders the size of small buildings. Bordered on one side by the dark green of spruce
and on the other by the pale jade green of Jericho Bay, every turn of the pink granite coast at
Haystack seems to open to a different vista. Black guillemot and eider families patrol the coast,
and herring gulls try opening mussels by dropping them from a height onto the rocks. Now and
again there appears a casual sculpture of natural materials -- objets trouves, arranged by
Haystack students. Just in from the coast not long ago, hikers chanced upon an automobile-size
boulder wrapped, a la Cristo, in a green, cellophane-like material. From the pink granite trail
several others lead into the woods and, eventually, back to the Haystack campus.
On the west side of the island, at Goose Cove, a series of seven trails radiate from the 70-acre
grounds of Goose Cove Lodge. The lodge's owner, Elli Pavloff, welcomes all -- not only lodge
guests -- on the land, saying ''You can't really own Goose Cove.'' One of the trails follows the
shore, another passes over a cliff and runs down to the beach. Wolffe Trail winds through a
spruce forest, and Wilderness Trail passes by a bog. When the tide is out, hikers at Goose Cove
can walk on a sand bar out to Bard Island, a small pink granite outcrop wooded with spruce and
owned by the Nature Conservancy. |
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Hi Tom,
I like the way you framed the scene ... it does lead the viewer's focus to look further. I think it is the bridge ahead that created this subconscious suggestion to the viewer. Well aptured and composed ... I like this technique. Well done! tfs
Cheers,
Renier
Hello Tom,
A very nice composition with good colours and excellent sharpness throughout. Personally, I find the frame rather overbearing and too heavy, but, then I don't like frames ;-)
Bonjour Tom, beau cliché et belle note explicative, toutes ces cages dans un si beau décor, bien vu, :)
Salutations
Jean-Pierre
- jmcl
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(11904) - [2007-07-15 13:42]
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Hi Tom,
I love the background elements .. the dock .. the sea .. I love how the foreground elements .. I love the detailed cages and ropes .. I I was to mess with one thing I think I would like an image from a step or two back with even more of the foreground .. still very nice.
take care,
John
i wouldnt mind having a lobster now... very informative note and a cool shot tom... thanks for sharing the daily life in stonington...
all the best
korkut
Hi Tom,
Yep, thats Maine for sure. Great shot , I like your POV looking towards the bay from the lobster traps. I haven't been to Maine since I moved to Canada, I used to go a couple times a year. I've got to get back there someday! TFS
Donna:o)
Hola Tom,
Una buena toma marinera y bonito encuadre con excelente luz y color.
Saludos cordiales
Ros.
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- plimrn
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Hi Tom,
Wonderful detail and color in the well-framed photo. I really like the way you placed the detail of the lobster traps against the harbor. A++ HLJ, Pat
