It’s been a busy summer here: Matt and I shipped Maine Icons: 50 Symbols of the Pine Tree State to our publisher Globe Pequot Press (due out Spring 2011!). We’ve begun work on two more Icons books, Vermont Icons and New Hampshire Icons, both due out in 2012.

Check out “Wilbur’s World,” in the September issue of Down East Magazine (pages 80-83). I was assigned the story last year and had a ball photographing the Blue Hill Fair. My shots accompany Elizabeth Peavey’s story.

In “Casting for the Light,” in the Summer/Fall issue of Western Art & Architecture magazine, you’ll find one of my portraits of artist Michael Stidham working in the Old Main Gallery in Bozeman, Montana.

The Autumn 2010 issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener (The Common Ground Fair issue) has one of my photographs of Jim Gerritsen of Wood Prairie Farm under the “Keynote Speaker” article on page 43.

And last but not least, I just finished the first part of an oral history project for the Western Writers of America. I proposed the project to the WWA Board in 2009 and with their approval, embarked on collecting oral history interviews and photographs of some of the WWA members during the 2009 WWA Convention in Oklahoma City. From some of the interviews, I created three multimedia pieces which you can view here:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14407607[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14397872[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14393726[/vimeo]