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Birch trunks and red maple leaves. Canham KBC 5x7, Fuji Velvia, Fuji C 450mm, f/64 2s
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Acadia National Park packs a great variety of scenery in a small (only  40,000 acres, 5th smallest US National Park) and easily accessible area .  The shoreline includes beaches, headlands, boulders, and slabs with a range of orientations. Large and small freshwater bodies are surrounded by two major forest types (eastern deciduous and coniferous north woods) meet. Capping them is the highest point on the east coast of the Americas from the Arctic to Rio de Janeiro.
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Spring is quiet, with the benefit of wildflowers and budding trees. Summer visitation can be overwhelming, as...

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QT Luong is a full-time photographer from California, known for being the first to photograph all 59 US National Parks - in large format. Ken Burns featured him in "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" (2009). His photographs, published in dozens of countries around the world, have been the subject several magazine profiles, solo gallery and museum exhibits. He the author and photographer of "Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey through America's National Parks" (treasuredlandsbook.com), a large format book where photographs of the 59 US National Parks are augmented with detailed photography locations notes from which this series of articles is drawn.
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