Cabbage Island Tending the Lobster Bake

American lobsters (Homarus americanus) emerge bright red-orange after steaming, tangled among strands of golden-brown rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) in a traditional shore clambake. A hand in a blue rubber glove reaches into the steaming pile, lifting seaweed and shellfish from beneath a heavy canvas tarp folded back at the edges. Wisps of white steam rise against a softly blurred background of gray water, catching diffuse natural daylight that highlights the wet, glistening textures of the catch. The composition is horizontal with the worker's arm entering from the left, drawing the eye toward the vivid clustered lobsters and layered seaweed dominating the right two-thirds of the frame.

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BoothbayCity MaineRegion United StatesCountry

Cabbage Island

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