When I was a kid I used to pick the leaves on these and chew them instead of gum while I was out deer hunting with my father. The Vermont Country Store still sells Clark's brand TeaBerry gum. It is one of my favourites.
- anothermaine
- I been a professional photographer since I worked for the US Government documenting Test and Evaluation of Research and Development projects for the US Army and US Navy in the later half of the 1980s. I came home to Maine to finish my Marketing Degree at USM and began to work full time in Market Research and Marketing for many years while documenting weddings and occasional photojournalist and commercial jobs on the weekends. In 2001 I again returned to photography as a full time trade and have never been a happier man. I love working with creative individuals, couples, small businesses and select Non-Profits and can’t imagine working in any other trade. In 1987 I was lucky enough to wed my high school sweetheart and we now live in a cozy little solar powered, recycled bungalow a mile deep in our woods in the Western Hills of Maine with our two brilliant home-schooled teenage daughters and our three cats.
20051213
PAW 2005 Wk 50 -Teaberry
When I was a kid I used to pick the leaves on these and chew them instead of gum while I was out deer hunting with my father. The Vermont Country Store still sells Clark's brand TeaBerry gum. It is one of my favourites.
20051212
PAW 2005 - Wk 49 - Beth's Photoshoot
I was commissioned to photograph a family's summer cottage in the freshly fallen snow on one of the local ponds here in Denmark. My youngest daughter Elizabeth asked to come along for the walk in the woods. I asked her to hold onto my tripod and she seemed interested in my work so I let her borrow my small Canon SD300 to shoot along with me. She'd never before touched a real camera.
Now, our eldest daughter Nicole shows fantastic talent with all facets of the graphic arts (at 8 years old she is far better with pen and paper than I am and I'm 30 years her senior). On the other hand, while Beth has had the usual interest in colouring as any 7 year old, she hasn't really expressed much interest or aptitude in 'the arts' other than really enjoying dance class. I was elated to see that she had that same sense of thrill from seeing photographs that she made that I have had since getting my first roll of film back from the lab many many years ago. These are two of the 53 photos that Beth made while we were on site...
Granger Pond...Perfectly framed. I brightened the shadows and saturation a bit in PhotoShop, but otherwise this is Beth's vision of the pond.
A photo of me taking a photo of Beth. I was surprised that she filled the frame with me instead of centering my head as every other novice photographer that I work with seems want to do. The first shot she did shoot horizontal, but when I showed her how much better a portrait looks vertical, she chose vertical for the other portraits without any further prompting. We had a very fun afternoon in what I hope is only the first of a lot of future photo shoots.
Now, our eldest daughter Nicole shows fantastic talent with all facets of the graphic arts (at 8 years old she is far better with pen and paper than I am and I'm 30 years her senior). On the other hand, while Beth has had the usual interest in colouring as any 7 year old, she hasn't really expressed much interest or aptitude in 'the arts' other than really enjoying dance class. I was elated to see that she had that same sense of thrill from seeing photographs that she made that I have had since getting my first roll of film back from the lab many many years ago. These are two of the 53 photos that Beth made while we were on site...
Granger Pond...Perfectly framed. I brightened the shadows and saturation a bit in PhotoShop, but otherwise this is Beth's vision of the pond.
A photo of me taking a photo of Beth. I was surprised that she filled the frame with me instead of centering my head as every other novice photographer that I work with seems want to do. The first shot she did shoot horizontal, but when I showed her how much better a portrait looks vertical, she chose vertical for the other portraits without any further prompting. We had a very fun afternoon in what I hope is only the first of a lot of future photo shoots.
20051203
PAW 2005 Wk 48 - Band Shots
My friend James W Lindenschmidt is the guitarist for the band Freakwitch.
A few weeks ago, Jim emailed me and asked if they could hire me to make some photographs or their promo use.
I hadn't done band promo shots for quite some time. While I'm no Kyle Cassidy, it sounded like a fun project since I was already friends with Jim and Matt (the troubadour in purple with the voice 'up front') and know them to be quite creative. The shoot yielded 70 photographs or so. These are three of my favourites...
(It is hard to find someplace that looks Urban in Portland, Maine. This is the city sanctioned 'grafitti wall' on the Eastern Prom near the Water Treatment Factility. I didn't even know it existed until this shoot.)
Freakwitch demo tracks in (MP3 Format .OR. OGG Format)
(Nikon D2h, Tokina 12-24/4 and Nikkor 10.5/2.8 heavily stylised in PhotoShop.)
A few weeks ago, Jim emailed me and asked if they could hire me to make some photographs or their promo use.
I hadn't done band promo shots for quite some time. While I'm no Kyle Cassidy, it sounded like a fun project since I was already friends with Jim and Matt (the troubadour in purple with the voice 'up front') and know them to be quite creative. The shoot yielded 70 photographs or so. These are three of my favourites...
(It is hard to find someplace that looks Urban in Portland, Maine. This is the city sanctioned 'grafitti wall' on the Eastern Prom near the Water Treatment Factility. I didn't even know it existed until this shoot.)
Freakwitch demo tracks in (MP3 Format .OR. OGG Format)
(Nikon D2h, Tokina 12-24/4 and Nikkor 10.5/2.8 heavily stylised in PhotoShop.)
20051129
PAW 2005 - Wk 47 - Chains
Tried out a Fuji GW670III this afternoon at lunch in Portland's Old Port.
I like the camera. Maybe even better than the Hasselblad that I just got.
(Fuji GW670III with fixed 90/3.5 and Fuji's new Pro160s film.)
20051117
PAW 2005 - Wk 46 - Fall Turkeys
Wild Maine Turkeys pitching woo in the field at the top of our mountain in the early morning light.
Inspired a Haiku...
plumage on display
Wild Turkeys are noble birds
love is in their air
(Nikon D70 with 24-120 VR Nikkor)
20051111
Nicole's November Walk
Nicole and her dad went out for a walk while her mom and little sister went out to dance class...
It is November in the Maine woods and this means it is hunting season. Especially because it is nearing sunset and hard to see in the woods, they both make sure that they dress with articles of blaze orange so as not to look like a tasty deer to any hunters who may not be so good at following the rules of being sure of their target and beyond. Nicole is very eager to enjoy hunting herself with her dad and her Pepere in just a few seasons so this is fashion clash with her signature pink is a small imposition to enjoy the woods of Maine safely at this favourite time of year.
As they leave the house they notice that the Jack-O-Lanterns that Nicole and her sister Beth very skillfully carved with their Nanna are starting to return to the Earth already in the composte pile among the year's first fallen snow.
Down the road a bit, they stop to admire how deep the pools on the side of the road have gotten after the latest storm. Her dad apprecieates the reflections of the woods beyond.
Further down the road on their walk, the wind has come up as they stop to enjoy how the fading light is pretty on the forest on quickly melting first new snow.
Looking down as they are about to move on, Nicole spots a brightly coloured fungi on a broken branch. Her dad makes a photograph of it so that they can even better remember it and the rest of their walk together.
(Nikon D70, 24-120 VR at very slow speeds hand held)
It is November in the Maine woods and this means it is hunting season. Especially because it is nearing sunset and hard to see in the woods, they both make sure that they dress with articles of blaze orange so as not to look like a tasty deer to any hunters who may not be so good at following the rules of being sure of their target and beyond. Nicole is very eager to enjoy hunting herself with her dad and her Pepere in just a few seasons so this is fashion clash with her signature pink is a small imposition to enjoy the woods of Maine safely at this favourite time of year.
As they leave the house they notice that the Jack-O-Lanterns that Nicole and her sister Beth very skillfully carved with their Nanna are starting to return to the Earth already in the composte pile among the year's first fallen snow.
Down the road a bit, they stop to admire how deep the pools on the side of the road have gotten after the latest storm. Her dad apprecieates the reflections of the woods beyond.
Further down the road on their walk, the wind has come up as they stop to enjoy how the fading light is pretty on the forest on quickly melting first new snow.
Looking down as they are about to move on, Nicole spots a brightly coloured fungi on a broken branch. Her dad makes a photograph of it so that they can even better remember it and the rest of their walk together.
(Nikon D70, 24-120 VR at very slow speeds hand held)
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