Figure 1 – Behind Dock Square, Kennebunkport, ME. (c) DE Wolf 2014.

The central square in Kennebunkport, referred to as Dock Square is pretty, but also pretty innocuous. Many of the shops and restaurants have been around for a very long time: The Colonial Pharmacy, Compliments, and Alison’s. However, it all gets really interesting from a camera perspective if you go behind the buildings to look at the water.  There you are greeted by a photographer’s paradise of wood white-washed by harsh weather.  As you can see from Figure 1 there are all sorts of angles and parallel lines to be contemplated and framed into a photograph.

What intrigues me the most is that I am constantly called back year after year to photograph the dock and the tidal mud flats behind the bridge.  The light is always different, and you invariably bear the scars of the failed photographs of the past and the hope that this time you will be successful.  But even success is a fleeting chimera because the reality is that when you come back again, the light will be different, raising the very really possibility that you can still create a better photograph. There are an infinity of possibilities.