One of our rainy day activities in Acadia National Park this week was a visit to the Seal Cove Auto Museum. I am not a car guy in the normal sense of the word. I notice fancy cars but I don’t lust after them (or not much anyway :). Still, I can’t imagine anyone with an eye for shape and color and texture and light not finding a lot to interest them in a world class collection of antique automobiles. What men made right there at the moment when the hand crafted carriage era and the beginnings of the industrial revolution overlapped are nothing less than works of art. At Seal Cove you can see examples of some of the most ornate restored to original glory. They even have bicycles and motorcycles too. What a feast of color and form and function!

Of course, to do any of these machines justice, you would have to get them out of the museum to a place with better light and space to frame them. These are just snapshots…using the ambient lighting, no flash…where something caught my eye as we toured the collection. Just to give you a flavor of the place.

Nikon Coolpix P500 at various settings from 23mm wide angle equivalent field of view to moderate tele at 76mm. Program with Active D-Lighting and Vivid Image Optimization. Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.