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Check the September issue of Maine Magazine for a feature by Chelsea Holden Baker with photos by yours truly about the oil trade in Portland Harbor.  It was a great assignment - the most fun photography job I’ve had so far.  Here are some of my favorite images which didn’t make the edit…

I just got back to work after six glorious (but non consecutive) days off.  We took two mini vacations in state and had some really good times.   The first was at a camp on Randall Pond in Parsonsfield near the NH border and the second was in the Pemaquid Point area.
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I just got back from what, depending on how you look at it, could be seen as the most efficient or the most asinine road trip to NYC ever.  I left my house in South Portland at 4:00 AM Sunday morning and got back at 7:00 AM Monday morning.  The only sleep I got in […]

Just felt like posting some pics of Old Orchard Beach that I shot this fall…

Let’s call this an ongoing project.  I’ve been wanting to shoot more but haven’t found myself in the area too much lately.  It’s not going anywhere though.  A few big projects have been completed over the last few years - like […]

Last weekend was our annual road trip to New York to visit family for the holidays.  In typical whirlwind fashion we left Maine Saturday morning arriving at my dad’s house in Northern Westchester County late in the afternoon.  Then spent Sunday afternoon at my wife’s brother’s apartment in Queens, leaving after dinner and arriving home […]

This past Saturday was beautiful.  It was the kind of fall day that makes you forget all about the approaching winter.  Each grandmother took a granddaughter which gave me some free time to work in the yard.  And I took the long way between drop offs and pick ups in order to snap some pics.  […]

It isn’t easy for me to think seriously about image making in the digital format.  I have shot thousands of snapshots with our digital point & shoot, so making the switch to the SLR and trying to make pictures that are more considered/composed is a big adjustment.  Here are a few of my recent attempts…

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In the spring of 2008 I decided it was finally time to pick up a digital slr.  After using a borrowed Nikon D70 a few times and doing a little online research I settled on a used D80.  I liked the idea of being able to mount old lenses, and I found that the cropped […]