Monthly Archives: August 2008

AFF 2008: Dance if we want to

Here’s a not-very-well-kept secret: I love to photograph dance.

I must’ve walked back and forth across the Railroad Stage field at least forty or fifty times over the span of the weekend. While Junk Yard Band was doing one of their sets, I saw the young girl above totally rocking out. Looked like fun.

Complimenting Hector [...]

AFF 2008: Reporting from the scene

Believe it or not, I was not the only person with a camera at the Folk Festival. In fact, I caught two of my favorite photojournalists (Kevin Bennett and Bridget Brown of the Bangor Daily News) in the act:

They, of course, managed to take some wonderful shots. I wouldn’t expect anything less from them.
I have [...]

AFF 2008: Look at all the people

As many of you already know (especially if you follow my Flickr account… sorry about that), the American Folk Festival took place last weekend in Bangor. Being the music lover and photographer I am, I took well over a thousand pictures. The next few posts are a short recap of the weekend.
The first rule of [...]

It’s almost here…

It’s August in Bangor, Maine. You should know what that means by now…

That’s right! It’s almost time for the American Folk Festival. A week from tonight, I’ll join a five-digit number’s worth of other people cramming along the Bangor waterfront to see a ton of great music in three-day festival form. And preparations are already [...]

Wedding season 2008, part 2

Wedding photography really isn’t my thing; I’ll usually help out friends, family, and other people who are close to me if I’m asked, but I don’t really like the pressure of it all.  Fortunately, though, I think I’ve started to get a bit better at it.  Last weekend (August 2) I once again put on [...]

8.8.8

Today was Flickr’s latest semi-every-once-in-a-while “24 hours of Flickr” experiment, creatively titled Flickr 888. The basic idea: photographers around the world post one photo taken today - August 8 - to a group to create a fairly comprehensive record of the day that was August 8, 2008.
Here’s my entry:

I know what you’re saying. Flowers? Aren’t [...]

Weird weather

We here in Maine pride ourselves on our weird weather. Oft is spoken the famous phrase, “If you don’t like the weather in Maine, wait a few minutes.”
The weather lately has been unusual here… even by Maine standards. Strong thunderstorms, sudden heavy downpours, and skies that just can’t decide what they want. I, [...]

Moooooooooooose

The moose at the Litchfield Sportsman’s Club in Litchfield, Maine, says… well, nothing, really.

If it were still roaming the forests of Maine, it would most likely be letting out that famous cry of the moose; you know, the, um, “mooooooooose” sound, I guess.