Sweet Annie rides the bus, and other things familiar and new
CAMDEN - Kwah Waadabisha works on an essay about the Rainer Maria Rilke poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" in a downtown coffee shop.
CAMDEN – Lawn chair.
BELFAST – Scratch tickets.
FREEDOM – Residents of Freedom and nearby towns listen to activist Dan Remian during a rally by Americans for Prosperity in front of the Dirigo Grange. The conservative political advocacy group brought its East Coast tour bus through Maine last week.
FREEDOM – Frog, road.
BELFAST – Detached stairs.
BELFAST – Workers rake shingles from the roof the Waldo County Superior Court building. Uncertainty over the state's plans for court building improvements prompted county officials to limit repairs on the building to a new roof for now.
BELFAST – The bridge at Herrick and Perkins Roads, reconstructed in 2010, was one of the first in the world to use "bridge-in-a-backpack" technology (cement-filled, carbon fiber tubes) developed at the University of Maine.
THORNDIKE – Volunteers Parker Weyer, right, and Anissa Nelson unspool a roll of twine made visible by bright ribbons used to mark the parking areas for the Common Ground Fair.
UNITY – Inside the poultry building at the Common Ground Country Fair.
UNITY – Rabbits, reflectors.
UNITY – A bunch of Sweet Annie peeking over the shoulder of a visitor to the Common Ground Country Fair was a familiar sight from past years. The school bus shuttles which replaced the traditional tractor-drawn wagons were new.
BELFAST – An "z" for extra jazz, or sleep.
BELFAST – Milk crates, gas station back door.
WALDO – Arthur Cross trims a wheelbarrow load of onions outside his home on the Waterville Road.
NORTHPORT – Edna Drinkwater Elementary School. Northport is among towns weighing a withdrawal from Regional School Unit 20, the consolidated district created from the former SADs 34 and 56 in 2009.
BELFAST – Blue buses.
BELFAST – School bus, morning.
CAMDEN - Kwah Waadabisha works on an essay about the Rainer Maria Rilke poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" in a downtown coffee shop.
CAMDEN – Lawn chair.
BELFAST – Scratch tickets.
FREEDOM – Residents of Freedom and nearby towns listen to activist Dan Remian during a rally by Americans for Prosperity in front of the Dirigo Grange. The conservative political advocacy group brought its East Coast tour bus through Maine last week.
FREEDOM – Frog, road.
BELFAST – Detached stairs.
BELFAST – Workers rake shingles from the roof the Waldo County Superior Court building. Uncertainty over the state's plans for court building improvements prompted county officials to limit repairs on the building to a new roof for now.
BELFAST – The bridge at Herrick and Perkins Roads, reconstructed in 2010, was one of the first in the world to use "bridge-in-a-backpack" technology (cement-filled, carbon fiber tubes) developed at the University of Maine.
THORNDIKE – Volunteers Parker Weyer, right, and Anissa Nelson unspool a roll of twine made visible by bright ribbons used to mark the parking areas for the Common Ground Fair.
UNITY – Inside the poultry building at the Common Ground Country Fair.
UNITY – Rabbits, reflectors.
UNITY – A bunch of Sweet Annie peeking over the shoulder of a visitor to the Common Ground Country Fair was a familiar sight from past years. The school bus shuttles which replaced the traditional tractor-drawn wagons were new.
BELFAST – An "z" for extra jazz, or sleep.
BELFAST – Milk crates, gas station back door.
WALDO – Arthur Cross trims a wheelbarrow load of onions outside his home on the Waterville Road.
NORTHPORT – Edna Drinkwater Elementary School. Northport is among towns weighing a withdrawal from Regional School Unit 20, the consolidated district created from the former SADs 34 and 56 in 2009.
BELFAST – Blue buses.
BELFAST – School bus, morning.
The eye is drawn to certain things, or at least it can seem that way in hindsight. Looking back over the week's photos there are school buses, tour buses and a half dozen Volkswagen buses. There are clusters of things baby blue things, some of which are buses.
There are public works, and people working publicly. And there are objects standing alone the way a person might.
Lots of animals were run over by cars, but there are only so many exposures on a roll of film.
That's the other part. These images were captured with a 30-year-old, pocket-sized, 35mm film camera — an Olympus XA-2. The gallery at right is most of a single roll of film, exposed throughout the week with no particular goal beyond sharing some moments that might not otherwise be documented.
Give or take a duplicate, a misfire or the odd family photo snapped when no other camera was available, it's all there. Hence the name Contact Sheet, after the single-page prints film photographers use for previewing all the pictures from a roll of film.
Traditionally a contact sheet would have many photos of the same subject, from which the photographer would choose the best for enlargements. This one is a little different in that there's one exposure per scene. It's a bit of a gamble and an experiment, totally unnecessary in the digital age, and hopefully enjoyable to look through.
Click on any of the thumbnails at right to start.
Penobscot Bay Pilot reporter Ethan Andrews can be reached at ethanandrews@penbaypilot.com
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