Jennifer Steen Booher

photography

The Bluffs, Father’s Day 2011 (Beachcombing series No.36)

The Bar Harbor Yacht Club is a small, uninsulated cabin perched precariously on a rocky outcrop over a substantial dock. There is no sign marking the steep, unpaved drive. It is frequented by people in practical clothes and sensible shoes…

By Jenn | July 20, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, photography, sea glass | No Comments |

Vintage Thread Labels (available in my etsy shop) My mother’s mother, Grandma Magda, was a wonderful seamstress. She made a lot of my clothes when I was growing up. Grandma tried to teach me to sew, and when I was…

By Jenn | July 19, 2011 | collections, photography, vintage | No Comments |

The Bluffs, May 29, 2011 (Beachcombing series No. 34)

The Bluffs, May 29, 2010 (Beachcombing series No.34) A typical day of beachcombing: three rock crab shells, a green crab shell, blue mussels, sea urchins, bits of nylon rope, birch bark, sea glass, periwinkle shells, a sprig of rockweed, and…

By Jenn | July 18, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, photography, sea glass | 3 Comments |

Swans Island, June 3, 2011 (Available here) At the end of each school year, all the fourth-graders on Mount Desert Island (about 70 kids) ride the ferry to visit the fourth graders on Swan’s Island (all 4 of them). There’s…

By Jenn | July 2, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, photography | No Comments |

Bar Island, May 28, 2011 (available here) It was my mother-in-law’s 70th birthday, and a huge crowd of relatives had gathered for a week of feasting and talking. The day was cold and wet, with a low gray sky that…

By Jenn | June 18, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, natural history, photography, sea glass | 2 Comments |

Eddie’s Brook, May 28, 2011 (available in my etsy shop) Eddie’s Brook is an unpretentious little stream that winds through the neighborhoods to the northeast of the Bar Harbor village. It starts somewhere near the top of Great Hill and…

By Jenn | June 15, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, photography | 1 Comment |

The Shore Path, Mother’s Day 2011 I have a month’s worth of photos piled up to share with you, and we’ll start with Mother’s Day. The whole family went for a walk on the Shore Path at sunset. The kids…

By Jenn | June 14, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, photography | No Comments |

Brown Sea Glass & Beach China Sea glass bottle bits, a sea glass mug handle and an assortment of random shards; sea brick in several colors; very old pottery water-pipeline fragments; bits of china plates and stoneware mug handles; an…

By Jenn | May 13, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, photography, sea glass | 3 Comments |

Sargent Head, April 12, 2011 These black stones are so smooth your fingers glide right over them. I think they are basalt, which is a very fine-grained igneous rock. Apparently it forms much of the ocean floor, and is also…

By Jenn | May 4, 2011 | beachcombing, collections, Maine, natural history, photography, sea glass | 4 Comments |

Crab No.1 Crab No.2 Crab No.3 Crab No.4 Crab No.5 When you get really close, there’s no way you could mistake one crab for another. I really want to try this series again with a macro lens, especially the first…

By Jenn | April 22, 2011 | beachcombing, Maine, photography | 1 Comment |

Jennifer Steen Booher

photography

The Bluffs, Father’s Day 2011 (Beachcombing series No.36)

My thread collection

The Bluffs, May 29, 2011 (Beachcombing series No. 34)

Swans Island, June 3, 2011

Bar Island, May 28, 2011

Eddie’s Brook, May 28, 2011

Mother’s Day 2011

Brown Sea Glass & Beach China

Sargent Head, April 12, 2011

Crab Personalities