Projects

Today I was going through photos to put in a collage for Melissa'a new office. Mostly landscapes for the collage but going through a major box of cd,dvds of collected images can be tough. I ran across some images that I scanned a couple of years ago for a family project I was working on. I thought it would be good to get these older images into a digital format before they were gone forever. Some of the images already suffer from decay.

This is an image of me from the 4th grade. You can see that over the years it has had something spilled on it and had a chemical reaction. I have a fair amount of pictures of my family over the years that have been scanned. As a photographer, I felt compelled to sit down and do it. It did not take long and was fun to do.

Time

I'm collecting things for my future dark room. A couple of days ago I picked up some darkroom equipment at a estate sale. It was 25 bucks for a box of stuff. I got it for 20. I got it home and there was a durst 30om enlarger in the box. I have never seen one so small. it needs to the foam that holds one of lenses replaced. The foam just disintegrates when you touch it. Other than that it seems to work fine. I look forward to using it soon. This timer was in the box as well along with an easel,trays thermometer, and a gra-lab timer.

Love Lasts

Melissa and I ventured out to the Orono Farmer's market yesterday. A handful of vendors with plenty of agricultural goodies. Maine Lobster 6.50 a lb. Fresh pork at one tent. Beef, herbs, bread, and berries at the next. So much to choose from.

Melissa picked out some squash, cucumbers, and lettuce. Then as we strolled over towards a vendor selling tomatoes, I saw them! There! About 100 yards away, close to the river bank just sitting there for all to see.

As Melissa spoke to the vendor about the value of a good red ripe tomato. I was already framing in my head. I didn't want to miss it. I had tried to get a similar image about 4 years ago but I hesitated and the moment passed. Gone until today.

After our purchase, we headed towards the truck. I told Melissa I would be right back that I wanted to get a picture of something. I quickly but quietly started across the parking lot to get behind them. There was a guy sitting in his car near them. I put my finger to my lips motioning to the man not to talk. He nodded in agreement, as I kneeled down. A few quick releases of the shutter and I walked away.


Like I mentioned, I don't see this very often which is sad. This is an older couple sitting together, really sitting together. I bet you could not get a piece of paper between them. They are fortunate and I am lucky to be in the right place at the right time. Not just to steal their moment but to learn from it. Love lasts.

The Fight. Sodium Vapor or Natural

It's easy to figure this one out. I will pick natural every time. The problem is it comes so damn early. I may never get used to this time change. The street light outside our window is pollution if ever seen it. It invades our bedroom with its orange glow. For the most part however, we had stopped its wavelengths by putting up light blocking material over our windows. Call us spoiled but Melissa and I like to sleep in the dark. Really dark. We had this problem licked until the normal daylight comes creeping in showing our imperfections in our work.

This Image taken at 4:51 a.m. shows our delima.

A Second Look

As I ponder re-doing my website. I thought, I have so many images why would I want to post more. Well, there could possibly be images that I overlooked or not considered before that bear a second look. I narrowed it down. The pictures needed to be at least three years old. About the time we moved to Montana.

Will these images make to the site? Maybe, maybe not. Are they worth sharing? You bet they are.

Why post them now? We aren't homesick, but we do miss our friends.

Bog Walk

I went out his morning to the Orono Bog walk. Just a couple of miles from the Bangor Mall is a well maintained boardwalk trail that goes out into a lush carpeted bog. I found all kinds of things to take pictures of.

This is Bog Rosemary. I hear it is pretty common and grows in a lot of states.

I never knew. So, I did learn something today.

Flower Pitcher

It was pretty cloudy today and has been threatening rain all day. A great day to make images.

A Day At The Beach

With Ethan leaving next week to return to Montana, I thought we should hit the beach one last time. We loaded up the truck and headed out for Acadia. We had it all chairs, cooler,fiction, I-pods, grill, etc...

The sign at the walkway to the beach said the water temp was a comfortable 54 degrees. Ethan went for total immersion several times. I on the other hand only went chest deep, with Melissa only going toe deep. I saw people out there that had come out of the water and they were red from being in the cold water. It would have to be pretty hot for me to go in all the way into 54 degree water or stay out there longer than 5 minutes. It was in the high 70s low 80s. I'm thinking at least middle to upper 90s.

Acadia park loop road needs more picnic areas. We ended up with a pleasant tailgate lunch at the Blue Hill overlook near the summit of Cadillac Mountain.

Over the last couple of months my camera has become more temperamental. Maybe its the altitude change? It could just be me. Some images I take are terrible from a technical standpoint. Others images have a slide feel to them.Which I prefer.

It could also be a certain time of the day and the conditions might have been just right. As I recall it was just slightly overcast and close to high noon. Either way, the camera gods were smiling on me yesterday. Yesterday was a slide day for some of my images.

Seal Harbor

No photoshop on this one. Straight out of the box. The image above is what I'm talking about. Maybe you think it is boring? It is Beautiful.