The Lord of Leisure1 Photo Gallery
Camden Harbor - Camden, Maine
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The Lord of Leisure writes:
This is a telephoto shot of Camden Harbor in Camden, Maine, one of the most picturesque of Maine’s coastal towns, taken from Mount Battie. The key to capturing this scene, at least to my eye, was exercising the patience to wait 2-3 hours for the afternoon sun to approach the horizon to take advantage of the mix of light and shadow.
The photo below is a panorama of the same scene.
Camden Harbor - Camden, Maine
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This is the view that, as every English major and New England tourism director will inevitably point out if I don’t, inspired Edna St. Vincent Millay in 1917 to write Renascence, a poem that opens with a description, distinguished by its exquisite pairing of rhyme scheme and meter, of this easily recognizable scene:2
All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked the other way,
And saw three islands in a bay.
So with my eyes I traced the line
Of the horizon, thin and fine,
Straight around till I was come
Back to where I’d started from;
Footnotes
- Lord of Leisure was previously known in these posts as Mr. Science. Both Lord of Leisure and Mr Science spend most of their time disguised as Neil Ellis, mild-mannered, retired teacher at a great suburban school system, who can identify a bird by its call, complete the New York Times Friday Crossword in ink, and snap a heck of a photo.↩
- The complete poem is available at Bartleby.com↩
