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Images From Maine #167 || Peter Ralston

Images From Maine #167 || Peter Ralston

Dear Friends, When we were young, our mother taught my brothers and me the quiet but deep gratification of sharing a proper Thank You. Every year at Thanksgiving we each wrote a letter to someone of our choice to whom we owed thanks for something in the past year and...

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Images from Maine #164 || Peter Ralston

Images from Maine #164 || Peter Ralston

Dear Friends, It is a supremely gorgeous day here and minutes ago I walked from my studio over to the bridge—all of a one-minute stroll—to make these two images. Well, actually that’s not quite right; I did take my camera along (of course) but it was a little walk to...

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Images from Maine #163, Port Clyde Fire || Peter Ralston

Images from Maine #163, Port Clyde Fire || Peter Ralston

Dear Friends, A very different sort of missive here today… one of a somber nature but with hope and the best of community woven into it. On September 28th a raging fire immolated the beating heart of Port Clyde, Maine… a beloved fishing village at the southern end of...

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Peter Ralston — Images from Maine #162

Peter Ralston — Images from Maine #162

Dear Friends, I find myself in a reflective state of mind on this foggy, rainy morning and for some reason it got me thinking back to when and why I first started sharing these “hugs from Maine” with you. In that spirit, I am re-sharing the very first one with you,...

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Peter Ralston — Images from Maine #161

Peter Ralston — Images from Maine #161

By Peter Ralston Dear Friends, I am dashing this off to you between Raven cruises. We’re still wonderfully busy here, between our own gallery and the exhibition of my work at Blue Raven Gallery in Rockland… not to mention a handful of remaining Raven days on...

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Peter Ralston — Images from Maine #160

Peter Ralston — Images from Maine #160

I apologize for missing last Sunday's note. On one hand I could claim that we were dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Lee, but such an excuse would be worse than simply disingenuous. Truth be told, we were in the lee of Lee here in Rockport, in fact by the time...

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Dear Friends: Images From Maine #148 — Peter Ralston

Dear Friends: Images From Maine #148 — Peter Ralston

Last summer I was out on Vinalhaven in the course of one of our Raven trips when I spied this old propellor lying amidst all the other stuff that inevitably accumulates on working wharves.

I was instantly drawn to it…love at first sight. Perhaps it’s the patina that comes with oxidization, surely the dents, dings and holes have a lot to do with it, but all-in-all, I could feel the many years of hard use it had endured.

I was very pleased by this latest instance of an image and a host of stories finding me and I made a few exposures…but then I was faced by a moral dilemma.

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Dear Friends: THANKFUL

Dear Friends: THANKFUL

In the winter of 2022 I discovered an image I had made back on June 24th of 2016.

What so grabbed me about it that first day—and to this very minute—was/is the comma….

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Dear Friends: Something Different From Peter Ralston

Dear Friends: Something Different From Peter Ralston

This week I am sharing something quite different with you. I hope you’ll enjoy this short video from my site. In 2009 I was approached by an independent film company that wanted to make a sixteen-minute documentary short about how I work….

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Dear Friends: A Season with Faith and Ritual

Dear Friends: A Season with Faith and Ritual

Here’s our December Room With a View column from Down East Magazine.

It’s not especially seasonal, but I don’t think that faith, or any of what Philip writes about in this one, ever really goes fully out of season.

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