Last week I was able to travel to Mississippi and Louisiana and witness firsthand the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Though I grew up on the Alabama Gulf Coast, and visited Mississippi numerous times after Hurricane Camille struck there in 1969, I still wasn’t prepared for how widespread and intense Katrina’s destruction would be. At […]
Bowdoin College’s advance through the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament came to an end Saturday at the hands of cross-state rival University of Southern Maine. The Polar Bears were eliminated 56-53 when a last-second desperation three-point shot failed.It was the second Polar Bear loss this season against the Huskies, both on the Huskie’s home […]
The Bowdoin College women’s basketball team inched its way into the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament with a hard-fought win Friday night over the University of Mary Washington of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Polar Bear women came out on top 62-54 in a back-and-forth battle; the Polar Bears started slow and […]
Congratulations to the Bowdoin College women’s basketball team, which advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament with two wins this weekend. This will be the sixth consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearance for the Polar Bears, coached by Stefanie Pemper. Pemper, who is in her eighth year at the […]
Where else but in a blog can you do something totally self-serving like posting about your dog’s birthday? So, here is a big Happy Birthday to Scout, a fellow February baby, who will be eight on Saturday. Thank-you to Scout’s friend and my talented assistant Hannah for surprising us with a yummy cake for a […]
One of my favorite Maine web sites is Maine Harbors. With just a few clicks, I can find out when the tide will be high at the Bass Harbor Headlight or when the sun will set at Popham Beach. It’s an invaluable planning tool for the Maine photographer. Now I’m fairly certain that John Standish […]
Okay, so we will probably never compete with Hawaii, but we do have our own surfers in Maine. And, we’re not talking the kind that navigate a keyboard with ten fingers. We’re talking ten toes on an honest-to-goodness surfboard. My assignment yesterday was to accompany a trio of Bowdoin College students who would make their college […]
Even though I’ve been shooting pictures for publications since 1988 (newspapers for the first ten years, and magazines since 1998), there is still something special about that first time I see each of my photos in print. Perhaps it’s being able to let go of a bit of anxiety over crops or color reproduction as […]