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Lupine Love<\/h4>\n

Happy Sunday! Again this year on my way up to Acadia I could not miss the masses of Lupine growing on banks along the interstate, and again, I determined to find a good stand in Acadia to photograph. The trick is not fining them\u2026they are all over Mount Desert Island\u2026the trick is finding them when they are not obliviously in someone\u2019s yard, where it would be awkward at best to get out of the car to spend any time photographing them. Of course I need a good background too.  Last year\u2019s stand<\/a>, near Southwest Harbor, was pretty sparse (I checked), but I found this field of them just off Route 3, near my motel. Good enough!<\/p>\n

Of course, Lupine is not native to New England, or even to the Americas.<\/strike> [Note: further research, prompted by some viewer comments, yields the fact that while the Lupines most common in New England are not native to New England, they are<\/em> native to North America. The Blue-pod Lupine, which is what you see in these tall mass stands generally, was introduced from the Northwest. Other cultivars have escaped from gardens, and there has been some inevitable cross-breeding. There is also a Wild Lupine, considerably shorter on the average, which is<\/em> native to New England.] There is a children\u2019s book about the lady who actually, like Johnny Appleseed, is responsible for their proliferation in Maine and adjoining states. IMHO we owe her a debt of gratitude. They are strikingly beautiful in the spring.<\/p>\n

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Subdued afternoon light on an overcast day. Hence the white sky, but otherwise perfect for photographing the color and the details of this striking plant.<\/p>\n

Canon SX20IS. 1) 28mm equivalent @ f5.6 @ 1\/320th @ ISO 160, 2) 215 mm @ f5.6 @ 1\/250 @ ISO 125, 3) 28mm and Super-macro @ f5.6 @ 1\/800 @ ISO 160. I was experimenting with aperture preferred. <\/p>\n

Similar treatment for all in Lightroom. Recovery for the sky (though it did not help much), Fill Light and Blackpoint just barely right, added Clarity and a touch of Vibrance. Sharpen narrow edges preset.<\/p>\n

From Acadia 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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