The Salt Student Blog » Leah http://blog.salt.edu Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:19:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 i feel like: http://blog.salt.edu/i-feel-like http://blog.salt.edu/i-feel-like#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:31:15 +0000 Leah http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1619

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/i-feel-like/feed 0 How wet should I let my camera get? http://blog.salt.edu/how-wet-should-i-let-my-camera-get http://blog.salt.edu/how-wet-should-i-let-my-camera-get#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:34:35 +0000 Leah http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1541 Why must it pour every time I shoot something outside?

Running down the Stone pier wharf on Chebeague Island yesterday my mind was full of dreamlike images of the Deborah Lee, run aground, so it’s captain could check out the damage he did to her over this past scalloping season: Him inspecting her wooden hull, peering under the massive boat as she leaned against the wharf on the beach.

But it was pouring. And he was hiding inside. And I’m not sure how wet I should let my camera get. After trudging around in the mud and seaweed, shooting the old girl but seeing rain marks on my lens in the preview, I ran back up to the car, waving to the islanders as they walked hunched to the commuter ferry, “What a rig!” one guy said, taking a picture of the Deborah Lee with his camera phone. “Yea, I know, right?” I shouted hopping into the truck a little disheartened. And this morning, I’m back in Portland via the Casco Bay Lines, praying that she’ll get hauled out again this spring for painting and I’ll get the images that are in my head and not my camera.

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/how-wet-should-i-let-my-camera-get/feed 0 it was summer here. http://blog.salt.edu/it-was-summer-here http://blog.salt.edu/it-was-summer-here#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:18:27 +0000 Leah http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1496 if only for a few days. LArseanult_S10472 LArsenault_S10757 LArsenault_S101390 LArsenault_S101800 LArsenault_S101803 LArsenault_S101801

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/it-was-summer-here/feed 0 Thanks for letting me borrow the 17-35mm. http://blog.salt.edu/thanks-for-letting-me-borrow-the-17-35mm http://blog.salt.edu/thanks-for-letting-me-borrow-the-17-35mm#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:52:05 +0000 Leah http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1340 it worked well for my story, and also just being creepy around salt. LArseanult_S1099 LArseanult_S10100 LArseanult_S10106 LArseanult_S10102

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/thanks-for-letting-me-borrow-the-17-35mm/feed 2 Murphy’s Law http://blog.salt.edu/murphys-law http://blog.salt.edu/murphys-law#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:20 +0000 Leah http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1262 I question everything… a lot. And after a string of bad luck I’m likely to question harder and harder about the decisions I’ve made to bring me to the place I find myself in. Not easy questions. But after my latest spell of bad luck I’ve come to learn I need to stop questioning everything and experience what I’ve chosen to do without doubt. Today at the dentist, sitting under those awful bright lights, preparing myself mentally for a root canal, my luck changed when the dentist poking about my mouth said, “You know what, I’m on the fence. I don’t think you need to have this done.”

Hallelujah, on this 18% gray day in Maine, what is sick is certainly not dead.

]]> http://blog.salt.edu/murphys-law/feed 0 In the past 24 hours http://blog.salt.edu/in-the-past-24-hours http://blog.salt.edu/in-the-past-24-hours#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:00:09 +0000 Leah http://blog.salt.edu/?p=1077 I’ve met some wicked smart people, bub, none of them been dipped in stupid, not once, not never.

Aside from the excitement of meeting everyone, it’s made me incredibly happy to see everyone’s reaction to being in Portland. Experiencing Portland with people who are seeing the city for the first time makes me see Portland for the first time all over again. Coming home to Maine from Alaska for this program feels like coming home to a new home, and I’m grateful. And terrified.

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