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
CFW Photography
www.cfwphotography.com

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
www.cfwphotography.smugmug.com

Shaken, NOT Stirred. . .

Shaken, NOT Stirred. . . .

I had a lot of messy fun taking this shot yesterday.  After many unsatisfying splashes in which those tiny green orbs just plunked in and barely made a wave, I realized that I could POUR the liquid into the glass and have it cascade all around in a very exciting way, much like I have done with wine pours. 

HOWEVER. . . .

When I put the olives into the glass first and then poured, inevitably, thanks to the physics of the glass shape, the water ejected the olives out the right side of the glass and OUT of my composition, leaving me with some great pours, but NO olives in sight, or olives flying hastily out of the frame along with lots of water.  NOT what I was looking for obviously! 

So, then I hit on the idea of using one of the underwhelming shots where the olives showed through the water nicely, but had made a really pathetic splash.  I put the best splash shot together with the best olive shot and erased the olives into the splash shot and voila:

A Martini, shaken, NOT stirred! 

You can see this and all of my other food & restaurant work here on my website. 

Spring Flowers: What's not to love?

Tulips in my garden yesterday. . .

Alone in the garden. . .

Sherwood Gardens, Baltimore, MD on a sunny afternoon.

Cherry Blossom Festival, Portland, Maine!

Another lone tulip. . .

Tulips with a background of the deep blue sky. . .

Beautiful Cinquefoil I discovered on a walk in the woods in Maryland recently. . .

Sherwood Gardens, Baltimore, MD--Magnolia, Magnolia, Magnolia!

What Mainer doesn't long for the sight of Spring flowers throughout the long, long winters?  I know I always do, and as a result, once the Spring flowers start showing their beautiful heads, I take advantage of it, beginning with crocuses and snowdrops, cherry blossoms, tulips, magnolias and continuing all the way to the last hardy New England Asters and Cosmos in the Fall.  Nothing is quite so pretty as Spring flowers though. 

Over the last couple of weeks, since we visited my in-laws in Baltimore, MD, I have had quite a few opportunities to photograph flowers, starting with Baltimore's beautiful Sherwood Gardens which is filled with magnolia trees, beds full of multi-colored tulips, daffodils, flowering crab apples and cherry trees.  It was a gorgeous, sunny day and I had a great time wandering all over the gardens, taking shots. 

And just in my neighborhood, up the street, are two brilliantly pink cherry trees that are simply laden with blossoms (image 4) and scads of pink tulips blooming right in my garden. 

I was very happy to discover that in all the construction work on the Capisic Pond area last summer, the Lupine field that had just started to bloom well last summer had been left intact!  There are loads of Lupine plants growing, so be prepared for some more flower posts in June (or maybe even before!)

This shot was taken at the Capisic Pond Estuary last year during "Lupine Time." 

You can always see more of my flower images on my website of course. 
Happy Spring everyone!