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SLIDE SHOW | Moose

Yankee Magazine — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:33:00 +0000

Moose seem to fascinate folks in these parts, and many of us are willing to go out of our way to spot one. Some folks even plan trips to catch a glimpse of the elusive mammal. Our readers shared their best shots with us in this slide show of moose found around New England.

Tell us where you go to see a moose on the loose.

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SLIDE SHOW: Long Island Sound in Spring

Yankee Magazine — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:32:00 +0000

The towns that dot the Connecticut shoreline along the Long Island Sound were coming to life as photographer Lisa Sacco traveled through that region to capture the awakening of spring. Join her on this photographic tour as she wanders through the charming small town of Madison, explores the expansive town green of Guilford, and strolls along the beaches in Old Saybrook, where the Connecticut river feeds into the Sound.

To see more of Lisa’s work, please visit her photography website: lisasacco.com.

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SLIDE SHOW: Early Spring in Ipswich, Massachusetts by David Stone

Yankee Magazine — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:16:00 +0000

David Stone has been interested in photography since childhood when his father gave him a Sears Tower twin lens reflex camera with the admonishment not to lose it. After attending college and serving in the Army, he graduated from the New England School of Photography and has been working in the photography industry ever since. He feels privileged to be on the staff of the Digital Imaging Services department at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts working alongside a group of outstanding photographers, and surrounded by one of the world’s finest art collections. Talk about inspiration!

A recent move back to Ipswich, Massachusetts, was the spark that reignited his keen interest in his personal photography, and he has discovered an abundance of photographic possibilities there. Appleton Farm, The Crane Estate and Reservation, Plum Island, Ipswich Bay, the Ipswich River and the Great Marsh are all waiting to be photographed. The changing light and tides assure that they reveal something different each day. Early one morning as he was walking back to his car from a photo excursion at Appleton Farm, a woman he passed asked if he had taken any good pictures. His automatic response was “Yes, but there are plenty left!”

As a regular contributor to Yankee Magazine‘s New England Photography page on Facebook, David enjoys the opportunity to share his images with other talented photographers. He primarily shoots with Nikon DSLRs, (almost) always uses a tripod, and thoroughly enjoys the time spent post-processing his images. His favorite camera setting is f8 and being there!

David’s photo of the Iced-in Canoe was the winner of Yankee Magazine’s 2011 Winter Photo Contest!

You can learn more about David on his Web site: www.stoneystonephoto.com

Slide Show Instructions:

Hover over photo and click on arrow to advance the slide show.
Click the “i” in the upper left corner of the photo for photograph information.

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SLIDE SHOW: Xiomáro’s Weir Farm

Yankee Magazine — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:56:00 +0000

“Weir Was Here—Secret Rooms, Doors and Windows” is the first artistic photographic collection documenting the interiors of the key historical structures at Weir Farm National Historic Site, located in Wilton and Ridgefield, Connecticut, which have never been seen by the general public. The homestead was continuously occupied by artists starting with Julian Alden Weir, one of the founders of American Impressionism, and including Mahonri Young, a sculptor and painter of the Ashcan School.

The photographs reinforce the personal connection of Weir to the spaces, which are unadorned yet stark, rustic and ethereal. This fall the buildings will open to the public with the interiors fully furnished and significantly changed from how they appear now. So the photographs offer a rare peek of what lies within these vacant rooms. Portions of the collection have been exhibited at Brigham Young University in Utah as well as the Washington, DC, offices of Senator Joe Lieberman, the Stamford and Bridgeport offices of Congressman Jim Himes and Mayor Michael Pavia’s Stamford office.

Xiomáro (pronounced SEE-oh-MAH-ro), a New York artist, was tasked by Weir Farm to create this body of work to share with the public. He was accepted by the park’s Weir Farm Art Center to participate in its internationally respected Artist-in-Residence program and continues his relationship with Weir Farm as a Visiting Artist. Xio uses photography to draw attention to historical sites where American figures lived and worked to pursue their vision. Other projects with the National Parks Service include President Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill mansion — to be exhibited at Harvard College next year — and Old Mastic House at Fire Island National Seashore, which is the home of William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Learn more about Weir Farm in the March/April 2013 issue of Yankee Magazine and visit their website
nps.gov/wefa/index.htm.

See more of Xiomáro’s work on his website xiomaro.com

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Poore Farm Historic Homestead Slide Show

Yankee Magazine — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:05:00 +0000

The Poore Farm Historic Homestead and Museum represents one family’s life in Stewartstown, New Hampshire, from the 1830s to the 1980s. Located in northern part of the Granite State, it’s a tangible place where caretakers have preserved this important legacy per Kenneth Poore’s wishes. Photographer Joel Laino captured the home and contents showcasing the beauty of a simple life.

Read an article from Yankee Magazine about the Poore Family Farm.

To learn more about Poore Farm, please visit their website: www.poorefamily.net/

To see more of Joel Laino’s work, visit: lainophoto.com

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SLIDE SHOW: Featured Photographer Susan Cole Kelly’s Hancock County, Maine

Yankee Magazine — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:46:00 +0000

Susan Cole Kelly is a published photographer and author. She started her avocation as a New England stock photographer while working in an IT career in Boston. Since taking early retirement she has been able to devote more time to photography, and now travels throughout the region taking photos which are used by publishers of calendars, magazines, and tour guides. One of her recent projects has been to document the beauty of Hancock County in downeast Maine, where she spends time in all four
seasons. Her aspirations include learning to see and capture more
intimate details of the landscapes she loves. You can see more of
Susan’s work at www.kellypix.com

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SLIDE SHOW: Featured Photographer Michael Zide captures black and white images of winter

Yankee Magazine — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:34:00 +0000

In the world of black and white landscape photography, Michael Zide has a most selective eye. He possesses that rare quality of artful seeing, bringing his sensitivity to gesture and mood to every image. Sensual and tactile, his work elicits a visceral response that draws the viewer in, demanding a second look, a more thoughtful response. His personal vision began as a child after the otherworldly experience of waking to find a luminous blanket of snow covering his Southern California home. That first snowfall set in motion both the search for a view of equal enchantment, as well as a visual memory in search of meaning.
Not surprisingly, many of his photographs are inspired by the striking drama of winter ice and snow transforming the New England landscape.

Over the past 30 years, Michael Zide’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries both nationally and internationally. His landscape photography has been featured in magazines such as Silvershotz, Black and White, Today’s Photographer, Fotomagazine and Photo/Design, while manufacturers of the finest digital coffee table books such as Graphistudios and Asukabook continue to use collections of his work to show off the lush tones of their printing processes. His landscape photographs are held in private, corporate, and museum collections.

Selected as a Master of Moab fine art imaging, Michael Zide’s work is printed on Moab fine art printing papers and exhibited at industry shows and galleries. He is sponsored by Manfrotto, (formally Bogen Imaging) and by Canon Pixma Pro-1 digital ink jet printers. His photos have been used to advertise Schneider large format lenses, Sinar Bron large format view cameras, Mitsubishi photographic printing papers, Polaroid Corporation instant imaging, Millers Imaging, and MPix digital printing services. Michael speaks about personal vision at PhotoPlus Expo in New York City, The Event Space (B&H Photo) and other venues.

Michael Zide divides his time between teaching at Hallmark Institute of Photography, Maine Media Workshops and from his studio in Amherst, Massachusetts. As a mentor and teacher, he encourages his students to develop their personal vision and create photographs that speak from the heart as well as the mind. For additional info visit www.michaelzide.com

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Slide Show: Victoria Blewer’s Hand-Colored Photographs

Yankee Magazine — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Victoria Blewer left New York City in 1986 to devote herself full time to
fine art photography in the quiet hills of Vermont. Her photographs
are shot with black and white film — many with infrared black and white
film, printed on a porous photographic paper, and then toned for color and
longevity. She hand-colors her photographs with oil paints–light layers of
paint are applied gently to the photograph until the color application is
smooth and even. This is a time-honored technique that photographers have
used for over a century. Before the invention of color film, hand-coloring
photographs was the one of the few methods of creating color photographs.
The result is an image that is dream-like, elegiac, and (sometimes) surreal.
Her technique nicely compliments her imagery of Vermont and New England.

Blewer’s photographs have been featured in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine,
Readers’ Digest, Vermont Life, Vermont Magazine and Yankee Magazine.
Her work can also be seen on book covers
published by Random House, Simon & Schuster and the University Press of New
England. Her work has won numerous awards. Ms. Blewer’s work has been
displayed throughout New England and can be found in galleries throughout
Vermont and in Wellfleet, MA and at her website www.victoriablewer.com.
She lives with her husband, best selling novelist Chris Bohjalian and their
daughter in Lincoln, Vermont.

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Slide Show: New England Lighthouses in Winter

Yankee Magazine — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:31:00 +0000

View a slide show of winter lighthouse images submitted by our talented readers.

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Slide Show: Classic Covers from Yankee Magazine

Yankee Magazine — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:12:00 +0000

View a sampling of Yankee Magazine covers through the decades and let us know if any of them tug on your nostalgic heart strings.

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Slide Show | The Wayside Inn Historic Landmark

Yankee Magazine — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:59:00 +0000

The Wayside Inn Grist Mill in Sudbury, Massachusetts, served as the inspiration for the Pepperidge Farm logo and is considered one of the most romantic settings in New England. View a slide show of reader-submitted images of this 1929 building and surrounding grounds throughout the seasons.

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SLIDE SHOW: Chris Bennett’s Autumn

Yankee Magazine — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:47:00 +0000

Chris Bennett’s love of photography was sparked from his love for the outdoors. He was raised in rural Maine and spent much of his childhood in the woods behind his house. As he grew older, his weekends were spent driving north to hike on the Appalachian Trail. He was constantly looking for ways to permanently preserve the awe and inspiration that he felt while in the wilderness, and photography provided the medium. On his days off you will find him with his camera in the mountains, pumping out miles on his road bike, or curled up on the couch reading with his beautiful wife and his dog. The photographs in this slide show represent a current series devoted to the season of autumn.

You can see more of his work and inquire about prints on his websites:
www.cbennettphoto.com
www.chris-bennett-photo.com

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Slide Show | Holiday Covers from Yankee Magazine

Yankee Magazine — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Take a trip back through time with this slide show of classic holiday covers from Yankee Magazine. Be sure to tell us which one is your favorite!

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Slide show: Brian Vanden Brink’s Iconic

Yankee Magazine — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:13:00 +0000

Brian Vanden Brink’s ICONIC – a stunning perspective on the built landscape.

Award-winning photographer Brian Vanden Brink is keenly aware of how cultural changes bear out in the structures we build. A striking follow-up to the acclaimed Ruin, his latest book Iconic: Perspectives on the Man-Made World (Down East, August 2012, $65) represents more than 30 years of work. The theme of iconography runs throughout the book, as each structure presented is iconic either for its unique contribution to the field of architecture or for its cultural significance. “He sees the raw bones of human intent and waits for the right moment to capture the format beauty of a building beyond its function.”

Vanden Brink has traveled the country widely, and photographed in places from Coney Island to Cairo, Illinois, and Las Vegas to Limestone, Maine. His subject range includes prison cells, grain silos, churches, hot-dog shacks, and the ubiquitous empty stretch of road vanishing over the horizon. The photographs are paired with short captions explaining both the architectural importance and the image’s personal meaning to Vanden Brink. He is passionately interested in American history and Americana and, while several photographs were taken in other countries, the main thrust of the book is America.

Brian Vanden Brink is one of the most sought after architectural photographers in the country. His work has been widely featured in such publications as Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Metropolitan Home, Coastal Living, Cottage Living, The New York Times Magazine, Old House Journal, Custom Home, Yankee, and Down East. His photographs have also been the subjects of four books, At Home in Maine, At Home by the Sea, Porch, and the monograph Ruin. Iconic represents the very best of his work in stunning color and black-and-white images. He lives in Camden, Maine, with his wife Kathleen.

To see more of brian’s work, please visit his website www.brianvandenbrink.com

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Slide Show: Barns of New England

Yankee Magazine — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:18:00 +0000

What is it about the barns that dot New England’s countryside that captures our imagination? Is it their age, history or aesthetic beauty? Decide for yourself as you take this photo tour of barns around our region that were submitted by our readers.

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SLIDE SHOW: Fair Food at the Big E

Aimee Seavey — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:37:00 +0000

A day at the fair is a day to devour — everything from classics like cotton candy and fried dough to modern marvels like deep fried whoopie pies and tasty plates like stuffed pierogi and pulled pork. Enjoy a slideshow of Fair Food at the Big E, New England’s largest agricultural fair, snapped by Assistant Editor Aimee Seavey on opening day 2012.

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SLIDE SHOW: New Hampshire Lakes Region in Autumn

Yankee Magazine — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:57:00 +0000

See the colors of autumn through the lens of New Hampshire based photographer Rob Bossi. This slide show is a sampling of some of our favorites from this year’s travel feature focused on the lakes region of New Hampshire.

To learn more about Rob’s work, please visit his photography site:

http://robbossi.com

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SLIDE SHOW: Keene Pumpkin Festival

Aimee Seavey — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:22:00 +0000

One of New England’s top festival events for over 20 years! Pumpkin Fest in downtown Keene, NH features thousands of carved jack-o-lanterns, live music, crafts, food, activities, and much more throughout picturesque downtown. Bring a carved pumpkin to contribute to the count and hope for a record-breaking total.

Assistant Editor Aimee Seavey’s slideshow captures candid shots from the annual festivals’s 2010 event.

Read more about the 2012 Keene Pumpkin Festival!

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Slide Show: Vermont Dairy Industry by Skye Chalmers

Yankee Magazine — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:21:00 +0000

Vermont based photographer Skye Chalmers, who has worked as a professional photographer for twenty years, has garnered a reputation for his black and white photography documenting the action and lifestyle of snowboarders. The photographs in the following slide show are from his recent book, Sending Milk. These black and white images, taken between 2009 and 2012, represent a photographic record of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative farm families and the dairy industry in northeastern United States.

Visit http://www.skyechalmers.com to view more of Skye’s work or purchase copies of his book Sending Milk.

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Slide Show: The Emerald Necklace in Massachusetts by Sean Litchfield

Yankee Magazine — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:17:00 +0000

Sean Litchfield is a Boston-based editorial and fine art photographer. A Cape Cod native, Litchfield holds a BS in Photography and works in large and medium format film as well as digital. He produces earnest, beautiful images that evoke the deep sense of uneasiness that marks the contemporary landscape. Ordinary scenes are rendered extraordinary, evocative and memorable through this sense of subtle unease.

The Emerald Necklace — the first comprehensive regional park system in the country — is a diverse chain of parks in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, that stretches from the Boston Common to the Forest Hills Cemetery. The appearance of the parks changes dramatically as you travel from one end to the other, and some are covered in lush, exotic plants while others are overgrown and unkept. While there are places in the parks where the links connecting them become less apparent, there is one element that connects them all — the wonderful emerald color from which the Emerald Necklace gets it’s name.

The photographs in this slide show are a representation of the park’s great diversity. By working in the late summer months, Litchfield was able to photograph each park the way it is meant to be seen. A wonderful landscape study for him and one he hopes will continue to draw more interest to the parks as a whole.

Learn more about the Emerald Necklace: http://www.emeraldnecklace.org/
See more of Sean Litchfield’s photography: http://www.seanlitchfield.com

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Weekend on Nantucket | Photographs from a May Visit

Aimee Seavey — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:50:00 +0000

A visit to the island doesn’t have to break the bank to deliver delicious meals, beautiful scenery, and plenty of Nantucket history. Assistant editor Aimee Seavey captures images from a shoulder season budget weekend on Nantucket in this colorful slide show.

Read more about Budget Weekend on Nantucket.

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Photographs of the 25 Best Beach Towns in New England

Yankee Magazine — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:25:00 +0000

How do you go about choosing the twenty-five best beach towns in New England? It wasn’t easy, but we used 14 criteria, ranging from the availability of beach food to accessibility of town amenities to lodging for all budgets to rank the towns. Whether you’re looking for waves to ride, long sandy stretches or lots of family activities, there’s a beach town for you on our list.

Read more about the 25 Best Beach Towns in our July/August issue of Yankee Magazine.

A special thanks to our contributing photographers. Follow the links below to see more of their New England photography.

Suzanne DeGeorge — sdegphotography.com
Butch Lombardi — eastbayimages.com
David Stone — stoneystonephoto.com
Laura Stone — laurastonephotography.com/
J. Greg Hinson, MD — nantucketstock.com

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SLIDE SHOW: Lighthouses of Martha’s Vineyard by Alison Shaw

Yankee Magazine — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:48:00 +0000

In the spring of 2011, photographer Alison Shaw began shooting the five lighthouses of Martha’s Vineyard on assignment for Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. Though Alison had been a visitor to the Island since childhood and a resident there since she graduated Smith College in 1975, the lighthouses were one subject she had scarcely photographed. But once she began the project, photographing the lighthouses quickly evolved into a passion—and her newest book To the Harbor Light, published by Vineyard Stories.

To the Harbor Light is the result of 1,500 miles of trekking: 60 miles over sand and more than 300 over water. While some lighthouses, like Oak Bluffs’ East Chop were right in Alison’s backyard, others were nearly unreachable. At times, Alison had to wait hours for the tide to recede before being able to cross the stone breakwater that leads to Provincetown’s Wood End lighthouse, and when shooting in late fall and early the winter, Alison constantly had to monitor weather conditions.

See more of Alison’s work as well as information about this book and her other titles, at: alisonshaw.com

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SLIDE SHOW: Ogunquit, Maine

Yankee Magazine — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Contributing photographer Kindra Clineff’s slideshow captures Ogunquit, Maine — the #1 beach town in New England — from both the air and ground. She discovered it was a great walking town and found it much easier to get around on foot. The aerial photographs she shot from a helicopter gave her a real appreciation for for the beauty of this vast stretch of beach.Please enjoy some of our favorite shots from her travels.

Want to learn more about Ogunquit, Maine? Watch our video on the Marginal Way and then see our recommendations on
where to stay, eat and play in this lovely coastal town.

See more of Kindra Clineff’s photography: kindraclineff.com

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SLIDE SHOW: New England Landscapes by Christopher Churchill

Yankee Magazine — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:21:00 +0000

Christopher Churchill is a Boston based photographer who has been exhibited and published internationally. He spent much of his childhood in Maine and sailing along the east coast was an integral part of that experience. Those memories of being in the landscape on a boat continue to influence how he photographs his subjects. He is well-known for his portrait work particularly his series on American Faith, but landscape holds a special place for him and was his first passion. As he so aptly states, “I have always found the whole process (of photography) to be very important as it allows me time and space to think about the larger world and find a place in that world both personally and photographically. And, to have New England with all is subtleties and seasons be my backyard to make those kinds of pictures is quite special”.

His photographs are held in various public collections that include The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Center for Creative Photography, The High Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, MFA Boston, MFA Houston and The Smithsonian. His editorial clients include Businessweek, Esquire, Flaunt, GQ, Money, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic, Time, and Yankee Magazine. His commercial clients include Budweiser, Liberty Mutual, PBS American Experience and The Salvation Army. He was named a Critical Mass top 50 in 2010 and his first monograph American Faith, was published in 2012 by Nazraeli Press.

See more from this collection on Christopher Churchill’s photography web site.

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Top 10 Farmers’ Markets in New England Contact Information

Yankee Magazine — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Christine Chitnis is the author of Markets of New England (The Little Bookroom, 2011), and she gave us her top ten choices for the best farmers’ markets in New England. Check Web sites to verify location and hours of operation.

1. Portland Farmers’ Market
Deering Oaks Park, Portland, Maine. Saturdays 7am-noon, April-November. Monument Square, Portland. Wednesdays 7am-2pm, April-November.
portlandmainefarmersmarket.org

2. Waitsfield Farmers’ Market
Mad River Green, Waitsfield, Vermont, off Main St. (Route 100), Waitsfield. Saturdays 9am-1pm, May-October.
waitsfieldfarmersmarket.com

3. Coventry Regional Farmers’ Market
Nathan Hale Homestead, 2299 South St., Coventry, Connecticut. Sundays 11am-2pm, June-October. coventryfarmersmarket.com.
See photos from Coventry’s “Market Roots” project.

4. Coastal Growers’ Market
Casey Farm, 2325 Boston Neck Road (Route 1A), Saunderstown, Rhode Island. Saturdays 9am-noon, May-October.
coastalmarket.org

5. Copley Square Farmers’ Market
St. James Ave., Dartmouth St., Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts. Tuesdays & Fridays 11am-6pm, May-November.
massfarmersmarkets.org

6. Burlington Farmers’ Market
City Hall Park, Burlington, Vermont. Saturday 8:30am-2pm, May-October
www.burlingtonfarmersmarket.org

7. Portsmouth Farmers’ Market
City Hall, 1 Junkins Avenue, Portsmouth, New Hamsphire. Saturday 8am-1pm, May-November

www.seacoastgrowers.org

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SLIDE SHOW: Cape Cod by Featured Photographer Jon Vaughan

Yankee Magazine — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:04:00 +0000

For Jon Vaughan, a landscape photographer and gallery owner on Cape Cod, honoring the unique beauty of the Cape is a never ending but always satisfying challenge. His subjects are coastal archetypes, documented out of appreciation and respect for their existence, whether fleeting or enduring. Graphic simplicity is his goal, but it must be arresting, as well as, paradoxically, both subtle and dynamic. His desire is to share an extraordinary moment with the viewer who hopefully becomes fully engaged in a photographic illusion where two dimensions transcend into three and imagination displaces reality as the viewer is willingly lured into “being there”.

A self-taught photographer, Jon has been photographing for more than 30 years and never tires of trying to be at the right place at the right time. Many times he “pre-visualizes” a composition and returns often (many days in a row — and sometimes many years in a row) to a particular site until there is a perfect conjunction of subject, light, weather and tide.

Although Jon prints his photographs using state of the art 21st Century digital technology, his camera equipment is late 20th Century. He hauls around a 1984 medium format Hasselblad film camera mounted on a 15 pound Gitzo tripod and always shoots at the smallest aperture. Jon says he will not give up the visual sensation of transparency film until they stop producing his favorite — Fuji Provia (RDP III).

The images in this slide show are from his 144 page book COASTAL EFFECTS, a tribute to Cape Cod and the Islands. The book is a compilation of 86 color images with dates and times, 11 essays discussing technique and inspiration as well as a table itemizing equipment, camera settings and film used.

Jon Vaughan’s work can be seen year round at his Cape Cod gallery Yankee Ingenuity, Chatham, MA, 02633, (508-945-1288).

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