Imaging the Natural World

Baxter Park Revisited

I promised to add more images from this fall’s adventure to Baxter Stake Park to photograph the moose. As I mentioned in the last installment, the morning of the 8th was pretty dismal at Sandy Stream Pond . No moose were sighted. But as always, the pond lends itself to some nice early morning photography.

Early Morning at Sandy Stream Pond

After several hours at Sandy Stream we spent much of the rest of the day checking out Stump Pond and traveling the Golden Road in search of moose. Instead of moose, I contented myself with photographing the foliage which was near its peak.

Fall Reflections

The morning of the 9th was to prove to be much more productive. Again we hiked the short path to Sandy Stream Pond before daybreak. The emerging sunrise allowed another capture of the pond, this one processed from 7 RAW images using high dynamic range (HDR) processing

Sandy Stream Pond Rendered in HDR

Not only were we rewarded with a very placid lake -side scene, but a bull moose too!

Our first bull moose sighting this fall

The next and final installment from this years trip will provide a gallery of images.

Baxter Moose

I will be heading to Baxter State Park in northern Maine on Tuesday. This annual trip is to photograph the moose during the rut which normally occurs between mid-September and Mid- October. A good friend and fellow nature photographer will be accompanying me on the 7-1/2 hour trip. We have  a lean-to reservation at the Roaring Brook campground which puts us within a short walk of  Sandy Stream Pond pictured below.

Baxter's Sandy Stream Pond at Sunrise

We will be spending several days in hopes of photographing the magnificent bull moose that often visit the pond and can be found in many locations in the park.

Baxter State Park Bull Moose

I will be posting a description of our 2009 trip along with some images upon our retrun