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Balance Rock at Shore Path in Bar Harbor, Maine

I made this shot one early morning, just before sunrise at the Shore Path of Bar Harbor in Maine.

The picture shows Frenchman Bay in the Mt Desert Narrows (which is how this stretch of the Atlantic Ocean way up north east of continental US is referred to).

The huge rock dominating the scene is called Balance Rock. It is a massive rock, which presumably moved downhill from the close-by Cadillac Mountain in the past ice age. Luckily the rock paused its journey at the beach – not shy at all right at the top of a “stone podium”. So we all can enjoy this impressive view even better...

Here you’ll find a black & white version of the photo.

Here you have a ’panorama view’ of the Balance Rock, composed by 8 individual shots stitched into a photo with a resolution of more than 14K x 5K pixels.

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