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Category Archives: General
Making Guitars
A few months ago I was asked to photograph a guitar-building class in Post Mills Vermont for Upper Valley Life, an excellent regional magazine. Three students from three New England states worked with two instructors in a nicely equipped workspace. One day I was there photographing I was treated to a live concert by a guitar duo.
I greatly enjoy making environmental portraits–photos of people in their work or play environments. My goal is to not only make a portrait but to show the individual’s relationship to their career, hobby, or lifestyle. The students at the school where not in their normal environment but were working with instruments they love so that is what I tried to show.
You can see some of the photos I took at the Vermont Instruments School by clicking the image below. You can read the accompanying article by Sonja Hakala HERE.
Also posted in Photography Tips
Tagged guitar, portraits, Post Mills, Upper Valley Life
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Baker Bush Maple Sugaring
The Upper Valley Land Trust hosted a hike and maple syrup tasting event at the Baker Bush property in Strafford Vermont today. Susan Baker conserved the parcel in honor and memory of her late husband, Chas Baker, who invested his time and energy in developing and maintaining a sugarbush and sugarhouse on the property. Tig and Elise Tillinghast now run an wonderful maple sugaring operation on this site. Here is Elsie in the sugar house.
We hiked the hill up back and saw the extent of the sugar bush. Four energetic Brittany Spaniels accompanied us.
Here Tig explains us how gravity, with an assist from a vacuum system, gets the sap to the sugar house.
From up top the view to the east toward NH was beautiful, even though the day was a bit gray. If you click either of the two images below you will magically be transported to a page where you can zoom into either picture and examine it in considerable detail. But please return to this page to view the remaining images from the day.
We returned to the sugar house where Tig boiled some syrup. The taste of the sweet warm maple syrup was wonderful. I just wish there was some to purchase to take home. They sell their syrup online like high quality wines.
Tagged Brittany Spaniels, maple sugar, sugar house
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Still going forward
If you visit these pages today or in the near future you will see many empty pages and galleries with temporary filler images. I am trying to establish a structure and layout that will be easy to navigate. Over the nest month I will be populatting the site with many more images. Currently you can enjoy several slide shows under Nepal and one under Sunapee that I had prepared previously for another application.
Progress continues
Some torrential rain Monday has kept me from xc-skiing so I’ve had a chance to make progress on the web site. Starting to populate it with images and text, mostly items already prepared for other purposes. Soon I’ll attempt to add “new” images–images that have not been on the web in any form.
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