Schoodic Point is the Atlantic with the volume turned up. Granite ledges step into deep water, so even on calm days the swell rolls in heavy and deliberate; on storm swells the ocean booms, breathing mist across the rocks. It feels remote not because it’s far, but because there’s so little here to filter the elements—just spruce, granite, and the sound of water.
Give the place time. Watch two or three full wave sets before you pick a composition. appear: a rebound wave that fans into lace, a pocket where spray lifts in the wind, a seam of black basalt that takes on a mirror finish at low tide. Work those micro–moments and you’ll leave with photographs that feel like Schoodic, not just of it.
When fog slides in from the bay, don’t bail. Switch to long exposures, shoot silhouettes against the white, and let the horizon disappear. If the fog breaks near dusk, the last light across Frenchman Bay can be soft and metallic—perfect for low-contrast, moody frames.
