"The Floating Rock, Schoodic Head Beach"
"Floating Rock, Schoodic Point, Maine" The last evening of my residency at Acadia National Park I was walking up a very rugged beach in Acadia when I came to this. A regret of my life is that a few moments before I came to this spot there was a Barbie Doll with only her legs and rear end coming out of the sand. I like funny photographs that sort of tell a story, and I wish I had made the photograph. Anyway, this rock appeared to almost be levitating off the granite beach it was resting on. The rocks there are a very dark tonality, but this Volkswagen Beetle size rock was lighter and seemed to almost be floating. I used a Toyo 45A camera with a 90mm Sinaron lens, no filter, Kodak T-Max 100 film rated at ASA 50.
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The name is very apropos. I never would have guess the subject was the size of a German manufactured Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola. AKA: Volkswagen I.
A thing I like about this kind of photography is that there is nothing to judge scale by. BTW, when I printed it I made a very thin film mask, I call it a dodge mask, and print it in register with the main negative so it raises density of the big rock by about 1 stop. I don't remember for sure but I might have used a light yellow filter.
Think Globally, Edit Locally.
Wow, I never would have known the rock was that large if you hadn't mentioned the VW bug-size. I like how the other, darker rocks kind of form a protective guard around it as if it's their treasure.
To give context, I was maybe 15-20 ft away. The lens used is a moderate wide angle on a 4x5 camera. I used a slight back tilt on the camera back to give more presence to the rocks and forms in the foreground.