Driving back from Machias to Bar Harbor a few weekends ago, doing transport duty for a daughter moving from college to summer job, we took Scenic Route 182 to cut the Schoodic Peninsula loop off Route 1. 182 is an official scenic route, so designated by the state of Maine. It travels up over the mountains (Maine mountains…so not very high by most standards) that make up the backbone of the peninsula, past several beautiful lakes. We stopped to take pictures even though it was a rainy, foggy day. This “lake” actually turned out to be the very head of Frenchman’s Bay, a long arm of the sea that separates Mt. Desert Island from the Schoodic Peninsula, up near Franklin Maine. As near as I can figure from the map and memory it is either Hog Bay or Egypt Bay. It was one of those “quick off the edge of the road on the wrong side because there is just room enough for the car and a great view, hop out and snap, and back in the car” things and I was not paying much attention to where we were on the actual road. Sometimes GPS tagging would be nice. 🙂

This is pulled back, wide angle version, to catch the ambiance of the low cloud rainy day, and the soft, somewhat indistinct, light.

1) 176mm equivalent field of view, f6.3 @ 1/800th @ ISO 160, 2) 23mm, f8 @ 1/1000th @ ISO 160.

Processed for Clarity and Sharpness in Lightroom. 1) is cropped slightly for composition.