MaineSight

As I was walking my dog on this cold February day in Maine, I came across this icy stream. Unfortunately, I brought a monopod instead of a tripod, and was forced to do my best without a true stable platform. I attatched the monopod to my Canon G10 and braced the horizontally oriented camera/monopod against myself while taking this photo (1/4 sec, f/4, ISO 80). Not bad for 1/4 second. But what I’m not showing are the 35 pictures that didn’t make the cut. There’s one distracting element in this picture that bugs me; do you see it?

Taking my dog for a walk, I came across these cedar posts in my neighbor’s field. I liked the patterns of the posts in the snow and the shadow detail around each post in the image below. Another 30-40 cm of snow on the way tonight…

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.

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?