Maine is a beautiful place, especially around autumn.

Even busy places, like a pier used as a headquarter lobster fishing is a beautiful and relaxing place when it’s not during the chaos of boats coming and going, fishermen loading and offloading.

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I have a couple of crazy/fun/artsy images from Maine’s Pemaquid Point Lighthouse on this website  (one of my favorite images is in my Portfolio Gallery), but no simple picture that just show the lighthouse.

So, here it is.

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This is Jim Ostergard and he is a super-nice guy.  He’s was a fan of doing things the traditional way, so he chopped wood with an axe and carried it up to his house via horse.

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Out in Maine for a week, we went to Fort Knox in the town of Prospect to take some pictures.

It was getting close to Halloween, so they were setting up the facility as a major haunted house.  As I weaved in and out of scary things getting ready to jump out at some unsuspecting fright-seeker, I passed this broken light.

The fact that someone broke it and left it (perhaps to go get a broom and dust-pan) was amusing to me, and the simplicity of it was appealing, too.

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I didn’t post any images the past few days because I was thrashing behind the scenes on my website.

If you’ve been here before, you know that my site looks a little bit different now.  (I’ve tried to kick it up a notch.) With the new website, I also changed web hosting companies.  All of the changes take a bit to matriculate through the internet, and there are still a few bugs to work out. In addition to the aforementioned technical issues, I have a couple of design issues I really need to work on (like the About Page).  But, for the most part, the new look is up and running.

So for today’s image, it’s a dramatic sunrise in Rockport, Maine.

A few years back my brother and I went to Maine for an über-photography class.  One particular day we woke up to catch sunrise.  We asked our instructor, who was from the area, a good place to start.  He gave us a fantastic recommendation overlooking the Rockport Harbor and the next morning we were up for sunrise.  It turned out to be an awesome sunrise, full of crazily intense colors.  (It was such a good sunrise, as a matter of fact, our instructor encouraged the rest of the class to do the same the next morning.)

My brother and I both have several fantastic images from that morning, and we somehow managed to stay up for the entire day to go out to shoot sunset, as well.  The next morning we were up for sunrise again, and the third morning we were ecstatic it was pouring rain, so we could finally sleep in.

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I’ve been working hard getting through my pictures from South Africa and Namibia, but had to make a pit-stop in my pictures from Maine for something else. While I was quickly scouring through images from the week I spent there, I passed this one and said, “Hey, I like that.”

While in Maine, a friend and I wandered down to the break water to watch the sunset.  He let me borrow his 80-200mm f/2.8 and it was pretty sexy.  Heavy, but sexy.  I’ve since purchased my own long lens, the f/4 300mm.  It’s heavy also, but I can shoot a nice, fast shutter speed … even in low light.

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I have a boatload of pictures from Maine.  In October of 2009 I went to the Maine Media Workshop and engrossed myself with other photographers crafting our skills.  Coming home, I had a few pictures I’m really proud of (which can be found on the Maine Travel Photography page) and then a handful of additional photos that I really, really like.

In this image, the tide goes in and out, and creates little pools of water on the rocks.  This is Maine’s Pemaquid Point Lighthouse reflected in that pool.

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Taken from Mt. Battie, overlooking Rockport, Maine, this is another picture I took, completely forgot about, then stumbled upon some time later.

It’s nice because currently, in Chicago, there is no color. At all. We’re smack-dab in the heart of winter, so even the sun poking out for fifteen minutes becomes a story on the news. Seeing this picture reminds me that spring and summer are around the corner and the weather will get better.

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