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 the Folk Festival: if you don’t like crowds, go on Sunday. If you do, well…
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 underway!
New this year: a moved Kenduskeag Dance Pavilion, a (finally) repaired wood fence along the railroad line, and a mysterious fenced area near the Heritage Stage. Want to see more? Check out some other pictures I took. If you’re going to the festival, don’t forget to add your photos to the AFF group on Flickr!
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 underway!
New this year: a moved Kenduskeag Dance Pavilion, a (finally) repaired wood fence along the railroad line, and a mysterious fenced area near the Heritage Stage. Want to see more? Check out some other pictures I took. If you’re going to the festival, don’t forget to add your photos to the AFF group on Flickr!
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 the good clothes and headed to Sam and Scott’s wedding in Litchfield.
The best parts of wedding photography: without fail, there are a couple of very cute kids, people in really beautiful outfits, and an opportunity to have lots of fun with posed pictures of the bride and groom. If it wasn’t for that pesky ceremony part…
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 flowers, y’know, overdone in just about every single possible way?
Well, yes. See, it was a pretty crappy day here in Bangor. It rained for a good portion of the day, and frankly I wasn’t prepared for it. I was hoping to catch a couple shots of the Penobscot Theatre’s outdoor production of “Guys & Dolls” this evening, but alas, it was moved inside. While I feel completely comfortable lugging my dSLR into, say, Hauck Auditorium at the University of Maine, I’ve always felt a bit uneasy about bringing it into the Bangor Opera House. (There would have been some great shots during and after the production that I at least should’ve captured with my point and shoot, but…)
So yes, flowers. I’m new to these photo project things. It’s something.
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, of course, had to take a couple pictures:
The skies tonight gave me a wonderful opportunity to try out my new Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS that I received after helping out Sara and Greg with their wedding. Thanks, guys! I’m loving the lens so far.
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.
While I drown myself in wedding photo enhancements, I thought I’d post a couple photos I took at the meetup this weekend.
We started our lighthouse tour at Pemaquid Point Light. While it’s not my favorite light on the coast, the rock formations leading to the light are amazing. It’s well worth the trip to see for yourself.
It has its drawbacks, though; the rocks at Pemaquid are one of the few places I can really see myself using an ultra-wide angle lens. Alas, there are other items on the list above it.
photo by brentdanley
Why a photo blog, you ask?
As I was darting over Pemaquid Point and Marshall Point rocks this weekend at my first-ever Flickr meetup, I realized that a lot of the photos trapped on my computer at home had stories to tell. And doggone it, I was a pretty good person to tell those stories.
Welcome to my stories.
