I took these photos around sunset in Harpswell Maine on Friday with my Canon and f2.8 17-55. The panorama above is a eight images stitched together using Hugin. I enjoyed the contrasting texture between the rough plastic and smooth fiberglass of a ship's hull on the photo below. The originals are avaliable on my Picasa page.
Yesterday, I went on a walk in a small town in central Maine looking for things that could as easily be from the 1930's as 2009. Since the 1950's, central Maine has changed little short of the infestations of Walmarts, McDonalds, and Timmy Hortons. Textile factories, logging, shipyards, and paper mills dominated economic landscape of of central Maine until the fifties and sixties when these companies either closed for business all together or moved out west or abroad. Now the largest employers in the area are hospitals and colleges. My friends and I affectionately call central Maine the deep south of the far north.
Here is a panorama I made of the abandoned Lockwood Mills cotton textile plant. The plant has remand relatively untouched since it closed its doors for business in the mid fifties.
I really liked this sign, for Laverdiere's Rexall Drug.
On the drive to Sugarloaf this morning, I noticed an eight door, sky blue Oldsmobile Toronado wagon on the side of the road. A combination of coffee, Iron Maiden, and the excitement of the season's first day of shredding barred me from pulling over. On the way back, we pulled over to snap some photos.
The car reminded me of one of the cars that Isaac Hayes drove in Escape from New York.
The sky blue and rust are a cool contrast.
For the last three days I have been trekking around the backwoods of New England. I saw plenty of interesting things and over the next few days i will be putting up some articles about my journey. Until then, here is a link to the Picasa Album.
I left my job in New York in the summer of 2011 and moved into a camper. Since then, I have driven 100,000 miles around the west, surfing and camping. During the summer of 2014, I set up a home base in the Columbia River Gorge. These are some of my stories and photos.
