North Atlantic Blues Festival 2008 - Saturday

Some images from the first day of the
2008 North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine.

More to come (both here and on flickr).

Lil Dave Thompson

Andrew Jr. Boy Jones

Sugar Blue

Lurrie Bell

The Festival Site

Ruthie Foster

Roger "Hurricane" Wilson

Walter Trout



Guest photography (I'm pretty sure it's just the Trout shot) by Jenny Why_me.

Swish!

Submitted to Unique's challenge for Lunar Moon.

Dogs like to play at the beach, too

This playful dog got loose briefly at Popham Beach. He didn't seem inclined to just run off, but he had a lot of fun teasing his humans by playing a game of "Catch Me If You Can".

They eventually did, but, well... you can see what happened when dog, muddy sand, ocean and human got together.

July 4th Sunset at Fort Popham and Popham Beach

July 4th Parade in Bath, Maine

A few images from Bath's Fourth of July Parade.

Watershack moment

Floating (off the) point entry for Shutterday's Shack challenge.

Have tripod, will photograph Bangor at night in the fog

As I drove home last night I almost missed all this. I'd noticed a bit of fog on the drive through the east side of Bangor, but not enough to be interesting. Downtown Bangor was below the fog, so there was no point in parking and walking around. I was almost home when I decided to head for higher ground on the west side. I was rewarded with some glorious fog and interesting lighting. By the time I'd worked my way back close to downtown, the lighting and fog had gotten to be more interesting, so the last few shots above are of Bangor from the Brewer side of the Penobscot River. As I took a few more shots around the Bangor Auditorium my batteries ran out. I could've swapped with the fully charged extras, but I was ready to get to bed and took the drained batteries as a sign to stop and do just that.

It was nice to be able to do this in July. It was much warmer than the foggy nights I was able to capture last November!

More photos from last night's shoot can be found at Whittling Fog on Flickr .