Many, or nearly all, of the photos I make that travel well over the socials are active scenes, usually with people as their central element: a cross country meet, playoff soccer, musicals, and my town’s venerated Halloween Parade. The latter features an hour of vibrant pandemonium as hundreds of costumed children and their parents gather on the town mall to join two spectacularly attired school bands for a shambolic twenty minute stroll around three blocks of our town center.
So I was pleased to learn that this quiet photo of mine may travel just as well but in that old fashioned medium, a print magazine. Bowdoin Magazine, the college’s quarterly for graduates, ran it with a one pager in November 2025 that touches on the college’s connections to the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust’s acquisition and preservation of Dionne Farm.
I made the photo, along with a few others in April 2024, just after the news of the purchase broke. I shot late in the afternoon on an early spring day before the trees had started to leaf. The weather was changeable and the light fantastic. I stood in the field west of the barn basking in the setting sun waiting for it to light up the cupola, Brunswick’s Old Town Hall clock. I lingered so long that an inquisitive concerned neighbor, Seth who farms nearby Crystal Spring, came out to check on me. We chatted and shared our common feelings of gratitude about the property and then, like characters in a Noah Kahan story got on to, “You feelin' right? You feelin' proud? How are your kids? Where are they now?”
A great day with the camera rewarded.
