LOCATION: Bear Pond, Waterford Date: October 10 Time: 3:45 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens ” I feel as though there are two sides of autumn. There’s the active autumn, where there’s lots of energy involved: fairs, festivals, pumpkin stands, apple picking, leaf peeping. And then there’s the quiet autumn, like a lake with colors on the […]
LOCATION: Pine Point (northeast of Old Orchard Beach) Date: October 4 Time: 5:05 p.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I was driving and suddenly saw the slash of red on the grass of the marsh, and then I noticed the piece of wood.”
LOCATION: Scarborough Marsh Date: October 4 Time: 4:00 p.m. Equipment: 150mm lens “I love the golden yellow of marsh grasses. I switched to a longer 150mm lens to get more color. I wanted to be sure I got the bridge in the photo; it sets up the expansiveness of the marsh.”
My sense of fair play tells me it is way too soon to return to the Center for Maine Contemporary Art for a review even though the July 20 post about Steve Mumford’s drawings and paintings of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the most popular and controversial Just Looking post ever. But, […]
If you picked up the July/August issue of Yankee Magazine, I hope you took time to peruse the photo essay, “Summer on the Lake,” in which Richard Schultz captured the essence of lakeside living in a stunning array of photographs. I certainly did and was intrigued not only by the images, but also the description […]
LOCATION: Biddeford Pool Date: October 19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I’d come here the day before in the late afternoon to do some scouting and noticed that the marsh shot would be better in the morning. I came back then for sunrise on the water … Autumn is the most challenging season to […]
LOCATION: Parsonsfield Date: October 13 Time: 5 p.m. Equipment: 150mm lens “Reverent is how I feel in graveyards. Respectful, seeing gravestones in a row, families still held together by stone walls and wrought-iron fencing. First I framed the image with the gravestones and mountains, but the fencing seemed so important–families being protected from … what […]
LOCATION: Biddeford Pool Date: October 18 Time: 6:35 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “I was just losing the sun, and I just happened to see the yellowing leaves and rose hips on the bushes. There’s so much more to capture in autumn than colorful leaves alone.”
LOCATION: Parsonsfield Date: October 13 Time: 11:30 a.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “The leaves falling, the rocking chairs on the porch, the white New England house, the colors with the sun poking in and out, were too good to pass up.”
LOCATION: Keoka Lake, Waterford Date: October 11 Time: 8:00 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “After shooting sunrise at Bear Pond, I returned to the lake in Waterford where I’d scouted some colorful leaves earlier, and I captured one of my favorite shots yet: a canopy of yellow leaves hanging down over the beach, with lake and […]
LOCATION: Cornish Date: October 13 Time: 1:00 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “This was a quick shot. I wanted to get so many views, but I had to pick my daughter up at the school bus. When my film is processed, every time I receive it it’s like receiving a Christmas gift. I may have an […]
LOCATION: Paradise Hill, Bethel Date: October 10 Time: 6:40 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I went to where I knew there would be color, on the east side of the mountain. I like the whimsy of the trees, almost Dr.Seuss-like, with slender trunks and bushy tops.”
