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19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Heart. Broken. A Heart of Stone Nestles among Granite Cliffs and Sunburst Lichen.

Maine’s Bold Coast is a story of natural forces, written in stone. Waves polish smooth cobbles. Lichens soften hard granite. Wind and tide and sun and storm shift and shape and leave their marks. Geology, it seems, is not without a heart.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Pembroke, Maine, United States of America
Copyright: © Sydney Michalski