A stunning autumn sunset fills the skies above Jordan Pond and the Bubble Mountains.

After a mixed bag of results photographing the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, I took my workshop group by Bubble Pond to see what the conditions were like. In all my years of photographing there, I’d never seen the surface of the pond so still and beautiful. And with the combination of some bright autumn foliage on the far shore, we were able to create some sublime images.

Although it’s not part of the national park, I photographed this marsh on Mount Desert Island three times over two days last October. The colors were spectacular every time.

I had looked for a long time for a wall of color behind some birch trunks like this and was pleased to find this grove of trees right alongside the road, giving me a good vantage point to shoot from further back with a telephoto lens, which compresses the distance between the trunks and the golden foliage in the background.

I like to look at the landscape with fresh eyes, and that often means unusual angles. This image was taken low to the ground, looking directly up at the aspens leaves as they dotted the blue skies. I was hoping for a completely blue sky and waited 30 minutes for the clouds to clear but they never did. Next time…

White Birch Trunk Beside the Great Meadow

Autumn along the Kane Path, created using a special technique to turn a straight image into a more abstract image by using camera movevent during the exposure. No additional filters were added using a computer.

One of the most beautiful, but still not heavily traveled, paths in Acadia is the Hemlock Road, near Sieur de Monts. I’ve photographed it on many occasions, but still find the most beautiful time is in the autumn, when the white birch trunks contrast with the yellows, reds, browns and greens of autumn and the path is carpeted with fallen leaves.

This square image will print as 10x10 inches.

A perfect sunrise lights up an autumn sky on the quiet west side of Mount Desert Island, located just outside Acadia National Park.

On a normal day, Hadlock Falls is barely a trickle, as I found out to my disappointment several years ago. But after a heavy downpour, the Falls comes alive with a torrent of water gushing down into Hadlock Brook and flowing under Waterfall Bridge. Acadia is not known for its waterfalls, but Hadlock Falls is its most impressive one by far.