MaineSight

Just when I fell into the trap of thinking winter might be fading, we get another 50 cm of snow—this time heavy, wet snow that snapped tree limbs and knocked out power. Here are some of our neighborhood children on top of a 2 meter high snow pile that has accumulated this winter.

In January, I started working my way through Betty Edwards’ book Drawing on the right side of the brain. Aside from helping me pay even closer attention to what I see, it’s turned out to be deeply satisfying to finally be able to draw a reasonable facsimile of a face-such as this attempt to copy a sketch Henri Fuseli (1741-1825) made of himself:

Had a brief opportunity to make a few pictures this weekend in the Great Gulf:

Winter Bog, Presidential Range, NH

Garry Winnogrand said that “photographs do not tell stories; they tell you what something looks like to a camera”. While I think that many times he is correct on this statement (at least in its most literal interpretation) I think the following picture DOES tell a story:

End or Beginning?, Brunswick, ME

The question is: what is the story?

I’ve finally bit the bullet and am starting to learn how to use WordPress. So, this is my first entry, and I will slowly return return previous content and add new contact as time allows. Right now, things will change somewhat sporadically while I learn css and other features of WordPress.