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George Steffanos
@GSteffanos@mstdn.social
3 settimane fa

Not a beach day at Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. From April 1981. Sand Beach and the Beehive viewed from atop Great Head.

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Not a beach day at Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. From April 1981. Sand Beach and the Beehive viewed from atop Great Head.

On a gray rainy day we are standing atop the rocky cliffs of a high headland on the Atlantic Ocean with a few leafless shrubs atop and two battered small pines poking up from the cliff side. Waves are breaking on a large beach of beige sand backed by a band of pine trees on the far side and some wetlands and then a small lagoon to our right. A steep rocky prominence with sparse tree cover known as the Beehive rises above the lagoon. Beyond the pines is an empty parking lot for the beach and a glimpse of the park road. Everything else is forests. Other than another pine forest on our left and scattered pines on and around the Beehive the trees are mostly leafless hardwoods.

#hiking #photography #nature #landscapephotography #nationalpark #ocean #mountains #springtime #seacoast #maine

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George Steffanos
@GSteffanos@mstdn.social
1 mese fa

Fossilized coral seacliff, late afternoon, Atiu coastline, Cook Islands, South Pacific. May 1990. Atiu's coral reef grows directly from the shoreline

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Fossilized coral seacliff, late afternoon, Atiu coastline, Cook Islands, South Pacific. May 1990. Atiu's coral reef grows directly from the shoreline and encircles the island. Eruptions from an undersea volcano have raised the inner portion to form these fossilized coral cliffs.

It is very late in the afternoon. The partly cloudy sky has patches of light blue, with low clouds and fog along the horizon. To the right is the blue green ocean, graying in the fading light. A low point of land is just visible through that low cloud. To the left are rugged naked brown fossilized coral sea cliffs, almost vertical, dozens of feet (20-30 meters) high. A rock of the same material is just offshore. Although the cliff faces are barren, there is lush green ground cover growing right up to the edge at the top, with green shrubs and trees growing from it starting a few feet (1-2 meters) in. The tall, slender trees are swaying gracefully in an onshore breeze.

#photography #nature #landscapephotography #ocean #tropics #tropical #seacoast #islands #outhpacific #seacliff

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George Steffanos
@GSteffanos@mstdn.social
1 mese fa

A tropical Beach with a small pandanus tree. Aitutaki, Cook Islands, South Pacific. May 1990.

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A tropical Beach with a small pandanus tree. Aitutaki, Cook Islands, South Pacific. May 1990.

Beneath a deep blue sky with streaky white clouds. A pale sand beach on an aqua ocean. Some small green sprouts are growing beside a small tropical tree with long, pointed leaves.

#photography #nature #landscapephotography #beach #ocean #tropics #seacoast #outhpacific #tropicalislands

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Paul Houle
@UP8@mastodon.social
1 mese fa

Some granite boulders resist weathering but others get etched by the action of waves and winds like the big one here on the New Hampshire store and ot

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Some granite boulders resist weathering but others get etched by the action of waves and winds like the big one here on the New Hampshire store and others, in the background are chunks of fill that were blasted and transported by truck!

Some granite boulders resist weathering but others get etched by the action of waves and winds like the big one here on the New Hampshire store and others, in the background are chunks of fill that were blasted and transported by truck!

#photography #photo #geology #ocean #rocks #newhampshire #granite #nh #seacoast #littoral #anthropocene

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