First Light at Acadia National Park
Acadia is the only national park in the northeastern United States, and it occupies a landscape unlike anything else in the park system — granite peaks rising directly from the Atlantic Ocean, pink granite shoreline meeting cold surf, spruce and fir forest covering the hillsides in a dense dark green that the western parks cannot match. The light here is an Atlantic light. Coastal, variable, frequently dramatic, capable of turning a gray morning into something extraordinary with almost no warning. For photographers trained on the warm reds of the desert Southwest or the granite gold of the Sierra Nevada, Acadia is a recalibration.
