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I took some photos at East Point Sanctuary, near Biddeford Pool, yesterday.

beached flotsam, black & white

rock beach, detail

net on rock beach

red brick on rock beach

Prints and Royalty Free stock options are available on my beach and landscape photos from rocky Maine coast gallery.

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Yesterday I took my family to see the Downtown Showdown in Monument Square, here in Portland, Maine. There was a 30 foot staircase built in Monument Square and skiers and snow boarders competed with rail tricks. It was a jib fest right downtown in sleepy Portland, Maine.

I went as more of a spectator than a photographer. I had my 6 year old son on my shoulders for most of the photos, and I was elbow to elbow with the other folks jostling for viewing positions.

(Next time: arrive early, finagle a spot inside the fence, set up lights, shoot like mad.)

You can check out the whole Downtown Showdown slideshow on my Downtown Showdown Flickr page.

I hope Sunday River and Sugarloaf continue to put on moreDowntown Showdown events in years to come.

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The Strobist Meet-up in Biddeford, ME was a great. The space at North Dam Mill was fantastic and the event was well attended. The models were fun (especially Joanna) and the photographers were really cool.

More photos on my Flckr page.

I’d like to say thanks to Joanna, Tim and especially Gary from Chasing The Sun Photography for hosting the event.

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Purse (3 of 7)

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My wife paid a friend to made some make-up pouches and purses for us to give as gifts this year. They looked so good, that when we got them, I set up an impromptu studio and took some isolated silhouette-type studio shots.

I used a gadget infinity trigger to fire my flash through an umbrella at 1/4 power or 1/8 power. I used a piece of foam core to help lighten up some of the dark spots. Then I cleaned up the backgrounds in Lightroom.

I put some of the best images on a disk for the woman who made the purses in case she would ever like to market her products.

More on flickr.

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trying out the Westcott Apollo

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Trying out the Westcott Apollo soft box with Canon EOS 550EX and gadget infinity triggers. Flash was on 1/2 power.

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I posted some photos from the Zone Urban Epic (ZUE) Triathlon to MaineToday.com’s Seen photoblog.

Olympic triathlete Becky Lavelle, top honors elite women’s division, 2008 Zone Urban Epic

It turns out the MaineToday.com website is unbearably slow, so this may be my last posting to their website.

You can see more in the Zone Urban Epic photos by Eric Holsinger gallery on MaineToday.com.

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My son came into my office this morning and offered to let me take some photos of him. “For your practice”, he said.

How can you resist an offer like that?
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I just got back from a weekend in New York city. I stayed at the East Houston hotel in the Lower East Side. It’s a great, lively location. Lots of opportunities for street photography.
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Astaco Amante, fake tilt-shift experiment

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Took this from my parking lot at work, with my G9. I wanted to play around with fake tilt-shift. I should have spent a little more time with it. I may try this one again.

Part of my personal project to take a g9 photo for each day in July.

Here is a link to the original.

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I took my Canon EOS 40D to catch the sunrise at Camp Ellis, ME this morning. Here are some unprocessed photos from the trip.

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