Surf Marbles

I know it's a lame title, what can I say I suck at naming stuff. Thank god my wife thought of cool names for our kids

As mentioned in my previous post, I spent about 5 days last week shooting the Maine coast in Acadia National Park. It was a great trip, although we only had clouds one morning and the days were mostly bright and sunny I managed to produce a number of images that are some of my new favorites. This is from the first morning at one of the more iconic spots in the park. With no clouds and little hope for any kind of drama I went for a long exposure emphasizing the beautiful beach cobbles and the pre-dawn color in the eastern sky.

As for processing, all adjustment (very few really) were done in LR3 with addition of a frame and some web sharpening in CS4. I know some will suggest opening up the shadows but I have to say I quite enjoy the high contrast and deep shadows present in the cobbles. *PS web compression is only helping to boost the already deep blacks

5DII, 16-35, 3 stop grad, waders to get out further than the masses