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Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012

Another cow photo?

Kent Beckernot my day job photographyMainecentral coastWindsor FairWindsorphotographyphoto

  • Cabbage Island, Linekin Bay, Boothbay Harbor Maine, August 25, 2012, 5:59 am<br /> <br /> A mellow purple/pink sunrise greets Linekin Bay.
  • Boothbay Harbor, Maine, August 27, 2012, 6:36 pm<br /> <br /> I caught the sun rays streaming through the clouds before sunset. I didn't do much post production work on this, although it does have an HDR look. Call it a natural HDR.
  • Boothbay Harbor, August 17, 2011, 5:36 am<br /> <br /> Early morning light bathes Boothbay Harbor. The church is Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church. 55 mm (88 mm with 1.6X crop factor), f10, 6 seconds, 100 ISO.
  • Cabbage Island, Linekin Bay, Boothbay Harbor Maine, August 21, 2011, 6:12 am<br /> <br /> A pano of an early morning sunrise, with two photos stitched together.
  • East Boothbay General Store, August 23, 2012<br /> <br /> I liked the simplicity of this photo of the East Boothbay General Store against a morning blue sky.
  • View from A Taste of Maine Restaurant, Wiscasset, August 16, 2011, 5:55 pm<br /> <br /> A thunderstorm was passing through, leaving these dramatic clouds while our family was having a first night in Maine dinner at A Taste of Maine in Wiscasset. Handheld at f6.3, 1/100, 100 ISO.
  • Cabbage Island, Linekin Bay, Boothbay Harbor Maine, August 20, 2012, 6:14 am<br /> <br /> This sunrise had a blue tone. It is interesting comparing sunrise color tones from different days. Sometimes Mother Nature provides a pink/orange glow, a mellow purple tint, or a flaming red fireball. A nice clear blue color against white clouds greeted early risers this day.
  • Boothbay Harbor Lobster Traps, August 25, 2012, 7:50 pm
  • Cabbage Island, Linekin Bay, Boothbay Harbor Maine, August 21, 2011, 5:22 am
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> Our family went to the Windsor Fair while on vacation in Maine in 2012. The fair is in the small central Maine town of Windsor; the nine-day fair, which draws over 100,000 people each year, has been around since 1888. Each day has a theme and the day that we attended was Woodsmen’s Day, which featured logging competitions such as log sawing, ax throwing, and log chopping. <br /> <br /> There was a cow judging competition in which cows in various categories were paraded in front of a judge. After examining the cows, the judge would provide commentary on a host of body parts of each cow before declaring winners in the division. I really didn’t follow the comments on the cow body parts but learned that a large utter with substantial veins is a positive. The udder is a single mass hanging beneath the cow, consisting of pairs of mammary glands. Outside the judging area, there was a demonstration of a mechanical milking machine. It gives me a new perspective every morning when I eat my cereal with milk.
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> An HDR of Caren’s Ice Cream at the Windsor Fair.
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> For those that don’t like the processed look of HDR of the previous photo, here is a natural photo with no post-processing work. Just a Ferris wheel against a deep blue sky.
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> Windsor Fair features harness racing. I shot this at a low shutter speed at 1/125 with panning to blur the background.
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012 The theme on the day we went to the Windsor Fair was Woodsmen’s Day, which featured logging competitions such as log sawing, ax throwing, and log chopping. The forestry sector is important to the economy of Maine as the industry provides employment for 19,600 people and is the largest payroll in Maine’s manufacturing sector according to a 2007 report “The Economic Importance and Wood Flows from Maine’s Forests, 2007 from the North East State Foresters Association.” Also, Maine is the most forested state in the nation with 89% of the state’s total land area covered with trees according to this source. One of the events at the fair entailed a logger chopping a notch in a tree, sticking a plank in the tree, standing on the plank and repeating the process, essentially “walking up” the tree. Apparently this technique was used in the old days, before chain saws. During the competition, there were three loggers chopping simultaneously at three different trees and the winner was the first to chop a stump at the top of the tree, about 20 feet off the ground. It looks very dangerous chopping a tree so high off the ground standing on a plank. No wonder that logging has a high injury rate. <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs.html">Data from The Bureau of Labor Statistics </a> ranks logging as the second most dangerous profession, second only to fishing, another big industry in Maine.
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> Another cow photo
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> Getting ready for the show steer contest.
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> During a break in the logging competitions, I noticed an interesting sign advertising Hussey’s General Store. The store features guns, cold beer, and wedding gowns, a rather strange combination of items.
  • Windsor Fair, August 27, 2012<br /> <br /> Another cow photo?
  • Our Lady Queen of Peace, Boothbay Harbor, Maine <br><br> Our Lady Queen of Peace is a Catholic church in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The foundation of the church was laid in 1916 and completed in 1917 with a belfry and steeple added in 1924. Built to accommodate summer visitors, the church has a seating capacity of 600. In the early years, there was a large summer congregation but only twelve Catholic families in year round residence. A small chapel was built in the basement that met the needs of the small winter congregation, according to the <a href="http://www.allsaintsmaine.com/our-lady-queen-peace-history/ ">church website.</a> The parish then, as now, covered an area of 30 square miles, including the towns of Southport, Boothbay Harbor, Boothbay, Edgecomb and Wiscasset. In the 1940s, the exterior walls of the church were painted white and floodlights were installed. The building became the most prominent landmark in the region and also a navigation aid at night. The small chapel under the main church was expanded to three times its original size. <br><br> President Kennedy visited the Boothbay peninsula and attended Mass at the church in August 1962; the 50th anniversary is discussed in the August 16, 2012 Boothbay Register article “The Boothbay Region Remembers JFK’s Trip to John’s Island in August 1962.” “On August 10, 1962, Kennedy landed on Air Force One in Brunswick Naval Air Station. ‘It looked like a good way to spend a weekend and Kennedy would look for good weekends’” said Sid Davis, a reporter who covered Kennedy. According to Davis, Kennedy may have been mending fences or trying to pull both parties together with the trip. “The only time Kennedy spent on the peninsula during that weekend was church on Sunday morning. About 2,500 people gathered to greet him when Kennedy attended mass at Our Lady Queen of Peace in Boothbay Harbor.” <br><br> In 1983 a parcel of land across the street from the church was donated to the Fisherman’s Memorial Committee. The committee cast a bronze fishing dory (small boat) which was dedicated to the memory of the over 229 fishermen from the Boothbay Region who were lost at sea during the last two centuries. At this time Father Lee began the Blessing of the Fishing Fleet after the memorial service that is now an important part of the Annual Fisherman’s Festival every spring according to the church website. <br><br> In 2009, Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish became part of the new All Saints Parish comprised of St. John the Baptist Church, St. Mary Church, St. Charles Church, St. Ambrose Church, St. Patrick Church, Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, and St. Katharine Drexel Summer Chapel.
  • Our Lady Queen of Peace, Kennedy Memorial<br /> <br /> President Kennedy visited the Boothbay peninsula and attended Mass at the church in August 1962; the 50th anniversary is discussed in the August 16, 2012 Boothbay Register article “The Boothbay Region Remembers JFK’s Trip to John’s Island in August 1962.” “On August 10, 1962, Kennedy landed on Air Force One in Brunswick Naval Air Station. ‘It looked like a good way to spend a weekend and Kennedy would look for good weekends’” said Sid Davis, a reporter who covered Kennedy. According to Davis, Kennedy may have been mending fences or trying to pull both parties together with the trip. “The only time Kennedy spent on the peninsula during that weekend was church on Sunday morning. About 2,500 people gathered to greet him when Kennedy attended mass at Our Lady Queen of Peace in Boothbay Harbor.”
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