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In 2019 I produced a photo-essay for Chebacco (the annual journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society) about stained glass windows on Mount Desert Island. I photographed the windows in ten buildings, and was astonished at their quality and…

Looking at the tide charts I saw that the lowest tides of the year would be happening around the middle of February, so I made sure to get out on the shore. Unfortunately for beachcombing, low tide coincided with sunset,…

On January 29, 2019 I drove across the island to the Asticou Landing in Northeast Harbor. If you follow my Coast Walk project, you might remember visiting the Landing back in the fall of 2017. It looks a little different…

From left to right, top to bottom: Rockweed (Fucus distichus), Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis), Common Periwinkles (Littorina littorea), American Lobster claw (Homarus americanus), plastic ring from bottle cap, broken glass, lobster claw, periwinkles, Blue Mussel, Rock Crab (Cancer irroratus), rope,…

On January 15 I walked down to the Bar – the thermometer at the house said 21ºF (-6ºC) but with the strong wind it felt much colder. There are always a lot of seagulls there, and they usually follow me…

I have this problem where I start writing a post about an outing and have to do research to answer questions about stuff I find, and sometimes I can’t find anything so the research ends up being me posting “what…

  I’m still working with the floating-seaweed-in-a-baking-dish method, and getting some of the kinks worked out. It is still a very damp method, and there is always a trail of water between the studio and the kitchen when I work…

  Left to Right, top to bottom: Row 1: Egg cases of the Knobbed Whelk (Busycon carica), Jingle Shells (Anomia simplex), part of a Horseshoe Crab shell (Limulus polyphemus), Slipper Shell Crepidula fornicata), beach stones. Row 2: Portly Spider Crab…

A lot of the seaweeds I find are filamentous and clump up into soggy wads when out of the water, so I’m experimenting with a technique for photographing them floating in a glass baking dish: Works pretty well! I haven’t…

All of these came from Seal Harbor beach on February 5, 2018. I haven’t been able to ID any of the red ones, although I suspect these feathery ones might be Heterosiphonia, which is invasive in Maine. This one might…