To Maine with a Leica: Part II

 The rugged, rocky, foggy coast of Maine.

Blog Note: This post should have appeared last Friday, but I was sick and am still not fully recovered.

As I said in the previous post, our trip to Maine was a great vacation and a great experience. We were enchanted with the place, so much so that we went back again in 1984. We went again in 1987, but that was on assignment for a magazine -- combining business with pleasure. It was very nice to have the magazine pay our expenses!

 New Harbor, on the Pemaquid Peninisula.

But getting back to the subject of photography -- specifically photography with Leicas -- the trip was disappointing. I burned through a lot of Kodachrome, but did not get photographs nearly as good, nor as many, as I had hoped. Despite my enthusiasm for Leicas and the Leica mystique, they just did not work for me in the real world. This is not to knock Leicas, because they have obviously worked for many, many photographers who have produced photos with them far better than mine.

Geraniums in window-box at Kennebunkport.

I think I would have done much better with my Olympus OM SLRs. Needless to say, when we went back to Maine in 1984, the Leicas stayed home and I took the SLRs plus a 4x5 view camera, with which I got only a few, but very pleasing (to me) pictures. I'll show some in the next post.

Sample's Shipyard. My favorite of the 1982 Leica photos.

To be honest, Maine, for some reason is a tough photo subject for me. It's a place that abounds in photo-possibilities, yet I have difficulty getting them on film. Go figure.

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