It's hard to believe that it's been 40 years since The Carpenter's Rainy Days and Mondays went to #2 on the charts. Today brought that song to mind. Our photography workshop group spent the morning shooting in drizzle and fog on Cadillac Mountain and The Wild Gardens of Acadia in Maine. Cloudy days are great for photographing a variety of different subjects. The clouds and fog disperse and soften the light eliminating almost all shadows and giving things a rich color. Today we had blowing drizzle when made shooting a challenge. Most of the time I wasn't wearing my glasses because they were covered with water. I had to trust the camera to get the focus right because I couldn't tell if I was even close to in focus. I had to constantly wipe the front of my lens and then quickly take the shot.
I'm not complaining. These conditions gave me the opportunity to take photos like these.
It has been cold enough that some of the vegetation on Cadillac Mountain has started to turn red. Add some evergreens, the pink granite, and some fog and you get a decent photograph.
The granite was worn smooth by glaciers long ago and has since cracked, which make great leading lines in the photo.
This bunch of grass had turned golden.
After stomping around on the mountain we went down to the Wild Gardens of Acadia. There was not much blooming in the gardens but many of the ferns had turned golden.
I was able to move around to get a green background behind the golden ferns making a nice color contrast shot.
Tomorrow promises to be a nice sunny day. We'll get out and shoot but it will be different from today. I'm looking forward to it.
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