Luncheon in support of the Maine MS Society, March 10, 2010

When I was asked to create images from the Women on the Move Luncheon held in Portland on March 10, 2010, I jumped at the chance to provide this service to such a worhty cause. Throughout the years, I’ve personally known too many people who have lived with this chronic and disabling disease. Just be being in the presence of so many well versed members of the MS society, I learned much more about this disease. Kim Block, from WGME-13 mceed the event and speakers included Dr. Ann Cabot, D.O. and Joyce Nelson, President and CEO of the National MS Society. Awards were given out to the family of Mr Barrows who started the Maine chapter of the society and to Pam Littell, who with no large corporate donations behind her, has single-handedly raised over $150,000 for research into this disease. Listening to her story, I fought back tears, (not good when you’re taking pictures to have your eyes misted over) and left feeling more humbled. For more information about the society and this event, check out http://www.msmaine.org.

Woman on the Move Luncheon, March 10, 2010, Portland, Me.

An attendee looking over the luncheon program.

Kim Block of WGME-13 interviewing Joyce Nelson, President and CEO of the National MS Society.

Joyce Nelson, President and CEO of the National MS Society.

Kim Block of WGME-13 delivering opening remarks

Dr Ann Cabot, DO delivered an entertaining and highly educational presentation

Kim Block and Arlyn White, President and CEO of the Grater New England Chapter of the National MS society intensely watching the presentations

Audience applause for the recipient of the Norman Cohn Hope Award

The Founder’s Award recipients (left to right) Michelle Whitney, Nancy Kading Barbara Martin with Mary Jalbert

The Norman Cohn Hope Award recipient, Pam Littell

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I’ve been fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of the owner of DeadHead Lumber Company and I’m hugely impressed by the work he does and the quality of the product.

Here’s the lowdown: DeadHead Lumber reclaims logs that came to rest at the bottom of the Maine lakes as a bi-product of the logging indusry. The logs are indigenous hardwoods that grew in Maine’s pristine virgin forests. These particular hardwood trees were allowed to grow slowly, resulting in the tight growth rings, unrivaled size, density and rich color that are coveted trademarks of old-growth lumber. You can learn more about the company by visiting their website: www.deadheadlumbercompany.com.

Below are shots taken of the owner’s latest project; a loft space converted into a small office. The room boast high ceilings, large windows and of course, an amazing hardwood floor.

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You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

I wholeheartedly agree with what William Albert Allard says above. As a photographer, everything I see is a picture. The mundane, the ordinary, is never ordinary in my eye. I firmly believe that beauty surrounds us, we just have to be open to it. I also believe in using whatever tools I have to hand to capture the beauty around me and often times manipulate that which I choose to bring forward, enhance and expose. In the images below, I took a vase of tulips I received for Valentine’s Day and photographed the flowers specifically with my iPhone to explore the tulips in a way I had not explored flowers before, creating imagery that takes on serveral different qualities, yet in my mind, enhancing the beauty and wonder of the original product. At the end of the day, I like to expose the subjectivity of all the images I make using whatever tools I have to hand. I plan to show some of these images in the upcoming Bideford Art Walk, February 26, 2010.

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