Night Photos from Deer Isle, Maine

Milky Way over the Mill Pond

Deer Isle Bridge Stars

Northwest Harbor Stars, Deer Isle, ME

Thanks for looking! 

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Maine Landscape Photography
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Some of my newest landscapes. . .

Wild Roses at Portland Head Light with my new wide angle lens!

More wild roses at Portland Head Light. . .

Looking back towards Portland, at Portland Head Light. . .

Moonrise under the Milky Way, Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, ME

The Loner, a foggy afternoon at Old Orchard Beach, Maine

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Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld
Maine Landscape Photography

A foggy morning in Portland, Maine. . .

A Happy Accident--vastly overexposed fog shot on the Eastern Promenade yesterday.

And a correctly exposed shot, looking down the Eastern Promenade.

Cheers!  Cindy

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Finding the Light: Images of Maine

So, I am very excited to announce the publication of my new book, Finding the Light, Images of Maine!  I hope you will take a moment to click on the link and see it.  And if you like what you see, please share this blog post with your friends and contacts to get the word out!  You can also purchase it at that link!  This is where you go:  Finding the Light

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
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A little late December sunrise light for you to enjoy. .

 It was such a beautiful, tranquil morning at Old Orchard Beach a day before Christmas Eve.  There were only two other people on the beach with my husband and I, and there was a real hush to the air, other than the sound of the waves lapping the sand over and over.  Also, for those of you not used to Maine latitude, sunrise this time of year is WELL after 7 am!  It was no hardship to get up for this, despite how early it looks.

You can see and purchase this here: https://cfwphotography.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Landscape-Nature/Old-Orchard-Beach/

The next shot was interesting to me, because I had never noticed ANY lighthouses while looking out from the beach at Old Orchard.  I put on my 300mm lens and took this very tiny picture of what turned out to be Wood Island Light, off the Biddeford Pool Road.  The clouds look so big and tall and the color so deep orange, but it is only because I am zoomed in so far that I am only looking at the small strip of orange you see in the picture above on the horizon.

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This shot made me the happiest of the morning, because moments after the sun rose, it looked to me like a brilliant little egg, nesting in the soft, purply clouds on the horizon.  And the light was magnificent and golden!

You can see and purchase this here: https://cfwphotography.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Landscape-Nature/Old-Orchard-Beach/

I liked this shot, because the light looks almost Caribbean to me--the temperatures were NOT Caribbean though--it was a "balmy" 26 degrees farenheit.

You can see and purchase this here: https://cfwphotography.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Landscape-Nature/Old-Orchard-Beach/

I hope you'll take a moment to visit my Old Orchard Beach gallery by clicking HERE

And please, don't forget that it's not even January 2017 yet!  You can still easily order one of my 2017 Maine Landscape calendars (designed by yours truly!) by clicking on my lulu.com link HERE

Thanks as always, for your support and viewing of my work!  Happy Holidays and New Year to you all!

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
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Enjoy a 20% discount on everything in my web galleries!

Hi everyone!  I wanted to offer you a 20% discount on everything in my web galleries for the month of December 2016.  Use this code at the time of checkout: HOLIDAY2016.  You can find my website, as always here.

Also, don't forget that my Maine landscape calendars make wonderful holiday gifts for your friends and relatives too!  Visit my calendar page ,a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/cynthia-farr-weinfeld/cynthia-farr-weinfeld-photography-2017/calendar/product-22852865.html">here
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Thanks for looking!

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CFW Photography
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Stonington's Sand Beach at Sunset

I had a great Thanksgiving holiday in Deer Isle with my mother and family this year--I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgivings too!  I also got a chance to go out twice and shoot in some beautiful light conditions.  The first night I got there (I hate to say "night", as the sun set at 4:09pm!!!  Ugh!)
The light was magnificent well before sunset and became very interesting after sunset.

I will have more to come either this week or next, and I may even share a scarily humorous story about the second shoot, so stick around!

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
CFW Photography
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"SUPER" Supermoon November 2016!

Well, it was an exciting week for photographers!  I'm sure you've all heard about November 14th's Supermoon?  It was the last time we will see a full moon this big for another 70 years apparently.  I was thrilled to find that the weather was good both the night before and the night of the Supermoon.  The first night, I went to Spring Point Ledge Light, and the moon looked big and beautiful, but nothing like the night of the full moon:

The night of the full moon was a huge difference.  But it was a much more challenging shoot.  It was full dark, being over 30 minutes after sunset, so I had to juggle with settings to be able to expose for both the moon and the lighthouse.  At first, it worked well:

 It was unbelievably large and beautiful!  There were tons of other people on Long Sands Beach with me, all along the beach--I am not sure how many, but possibly as much as 100?  It was such great energy.

Once the moon rose a bit more, however, the shoot became even trickier, possibly because the moon was so darned bright.  So I began taking one picture to expose for the lighthouse and island and one picture to expose for the moon, so it wouldn't just look like a big white disk hanging in the sky.

In Photoshop, I superimposed the two shots together and erased the white moon and let the moon from my "moon picture" shine through.  I think it looks pretty good!

I hope you all got to see this amazing vision for yourselves.  I'm so glad I drove all the way to York, Maine (an hour) to share this experience with so many other nice people.

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
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New shots from closer to home. . .

Rocky Coastline at Falmouth Town Landing 

Falmouth Town Landing before dawn.

I went out early yesterday morning (very early!) and got some nice shots of pre-dawn light at Falmouth Town Landing.  Thanks for looking!

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
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STILL processing shots from my Autumnal trips!

I know it's been weeks of Autumnal images from Western Maine, but do you think you can stand a few more?  ;-)  It's just that driving around Western Maine, it's very hard not to trip over beautiful vistas every couple of miles (or even closer sometimes!)

Weld, Maine Barn

Bowley Brook, Weld, Maine

Weld, Maine Vista

Thanks for taking the time to look.  I hope you'll also consider sharing my blog with your friends and family, as this is the way I get the word out there about my work!

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
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More new Foliage shots and exciting news about iPhone and Android Cases!

So, I am very excited to be able to offer iPhone 6 and 7 cases on my website!  Check them out by clicking on "Buy Photos" on the upper right side of the selected picture in each gallery, then choose "this photo".  When the catalog of products pops up, choose "phone cases" at the bottom of the list.  Choose your phone type from there and you can set the crop of any picture to be your case and carry a CFW Photography landscape around with you to remind you of Maine every time you talk or text!  Check out this gallery to give it a whirl: Western Maine

And now for three more new images from the past couple of weeks:

Wilton, Maine sunrise panorama 

Height of Land, Rangeley, Maine panorama

Wilton, Maine hay bale sunrise

I hope you've all been having a great week--I know I have!  Please feel free to share my blog posts with anyone you see fit anytime.  It's the way I get my name out there so I can keep doing what I love doing.  Thanks for looking!

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
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Still More Autumnal Revels

Lingering Ground Fog, Western Maine.

Shawnee Peak, seen across Moose Pond, Bridgton, Maine, just after dawn.

Shawnee Peak in Autumnal Finery!

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
CFW Photography
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More Western Maine Adventure

A beautiful rainstorm blowing in over Bethel, ME just before sunrise

The winding road, just outside of Bethel, ME at sunrise

Moose Pond, Bridgton, Maine

You can find (and purchase) all of these new shots in my Western Maine Gallery

Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, Maine Landscape Photography
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Chasing Light in Bethel, Maine

So, I left for Western Maine on Monday morning dark and early at 4:30am in Portland.  And it was pitch dark AND cloudy for the next 2 hours!  But as I came into Bethel, the light was starting to get complex and the clouds were breaking up in places--with my second camera, I got a couple of shots of a rainstorm with sunrise light warring that I hope will be good.  But this was the first (and best) shot of the sunrise light as I left Bethel, to head on towards Weld, Maine.  I kept stopping by the road every mile or so to take pictures of this light, but this was the prettiest moment!

I hope you'll take a moment to share my blog with your friends and contacts as this is the only way I get word of my work out to the world.  I don't advertise.  You can see (and purchase) this in my Western Maine Gallery

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Time spent in Deer Isle, Maine

Deer Isle, Maine is definitely one of my muses as a photography subject.  It's hard to go anywhere on the island without seeing something beautiful, honestly.  If you just show up for the right light, you're almost guaranteed to find something beautiful to shoot!  Over the past few months, these are some of the photographs I've taken while visiting my mother there. 

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Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld
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Fuller Farm Sunset and Stars, Scarborough, Maine

I went to Pine Point yesterday in Scarborough, ME, looking for some nifty sunset shots of the dories and rowboats at high tide.  But, hey--no boats here!  The water was REALLY choppy and the boats were really close to the shore and looked pretty lame.  So I changed my plan and thought I would try to get some salt marsh at sunset shots. . .  Hmm. .. .  No salt marsh in evidence here either.  What gives, Cindy?  Well, the upshot is that I took a wrong left turn at Albuquerque, so to speak, and ended up at Fuller Farm in Scarborough and I'm so glad I did!  The haystacks looked so beautiful and harvesty, and there were magnificent pink clouds overhead.  And then I stayed long enough to capture some stars, as you'll see in my third shot.  Sometimes, when life hands you lemons. . . 

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Thinking about an autumnal photo shoot. . .

So, I've been working out where to go in Western Maine THIS October, after having so much success last year heading up toward Bethel, ME.  At first, I thought, "I need to go to Baxter State Park!"  But after a lot of research, I realized that. . .  I need to do MORE research!  So I'll plan a trip for next summer to Baxter with my family instead. 

But I think I may head to Weld, ME for a couple of days, because there are so many amazingly beautiful sights just off the road: wooded streams and rivers, Webb Lake, Mt. Blue State Park, Tumbledown Mountain and the "bowl" at the top--a beautiful pond. 

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Thanks for looking! 

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