Reading · Art, Photography and Process

I know you’re mostly here to see some photos, so here you go:

Aroostook County Field with Trees, December, 2025. I think this was somewhere in the Easton area. I like to use the GPS in my camera to keep track of locations but it isn’t all that reliable, especially if I don't give it enough time to find the satellites. It’s cold out there and no, I’m not hanging out waiting for my camera to find a satellite.

Curvy Road, Parkhurst, Maine, November 2023. This is the photo that started an obsession.

Curvy road, Parkhurst, Maine, March 2025.

Curvy road, Parkhurst, Maine, December 7, 2025. I am obsessed with this curve. It gives me shivers of delight. I rephotograph it all the time and it constantly changes, yet is always there. I wonder if it knows how much I adore it.

Finding visual metaphors excites me. This one is for our current political times. White Knight, Mars Hill, Maine, 2025

Apple trees near Presque Isle, Maine, 2025. This orchard has the most delicious apples. I’d like to meet the landowner so I could ask permission to pick, but I pick anyway, in small quantities. Most of the apples are left for the birds, who really appreciate them in the winter. I’m guessing nobody cares about this orchard except for me and the birds.

Tree near Fort Fairfield, Maine. I *think* this is an old white pine. I feel like it misses its forest. I know I would.

Winter slammed down early this year, so I’ve had more than the usual amount of time to photograph snowy places before the end of 2025. There’s not that much else to do around here. In this northeastern part of Maine, people make their own fun. When they choose to live in a place with six months of winter and a very long drive to the nearest city, culture is what people are willing to actually do. I frequently find fun in just watching the landscape change throughout the seasons. Often this is enough for me.

Here is a list of events and workshops for the rest of 2025 and the beginning of 2026:

Please share with your friends and family, or consider gifting a workshop to your loved one who wants to dive deeper into their photographic creative process.

Workshop starting in January: Beauty in the Mundane, which is hosted online by the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. This is an opportunity to think about photography and creative practice from new perspectives, which are super helpful for getting out of creative ruts. I also spend a lot time gently coaching people in methods of offering and receiving feedback in ways that are genuinely supportive and not your usual critiques.

And in May, a workshop on diptychs and sequencing, also hosted online by CPAC. This is the evolution of a prior workshop I taught, that focused on diptychs. Here we will expand out from diptychs into sequencing for books and exhibitions.

Will you be in the downeast Maine coast near the sparklingly funky town of Lubec, at any time this winter? I have a solo show up at the Cobscook Institute. It is gracing the lobby until February 3rd. They are a series of paintings that are inspired by the northern Maine landscape.

Thanks for reading, stay warm, stay active, stay creative, eat some yummy things and join me in spirit to celebrate the solstice - which, around here, means longer days and shorter nights, as well as a deepening of winter.

XO - Morgain

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