{"id":62363,"date":"2022-03-09T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themainemag.com\/?p=62363"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:46:38","slug":"capturing-five-years-of-family-vacations-on-maines-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themainemag.com\/capturing-five-years-of-family-vacations-on-maines-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Five Years of Family Vacations on Maine\u2019s Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the first cold days of January 2014, photographer Ian MacLellan snapped a few shots, liked what he saw, and strung the images together on his website, photo-journal style. He enjoyed the process, the documentation. \u201cI didn\u2019t resolve on December 31 that I would start doing a photo a day,\u201d MacLellan says. \u201cI\u2019m just someone who\u2019s always walking around checking out nooks and crannies and taking pictures.\u201d Eight years later the photographer and filmmaker, who has done editorial and commercial work for the likes of L.L.Bean, Trust for Public Land, and the New York Times<\/em>, still continues his project: one serendipitous, photo-worthy capture a day, posted to Tumblr. \u201cIt\u2019s what keeps me going throughout the doldrums and peaks of my freelance career,\u201d he says, \u201cand motivates me to roll out of bed for sunrises and race out the door for sunsets.\u201d MacLellan lives in Maine, so within the mix there are, of course, beautiful skies, rainbows, and lighthouses. Most of his posts are the in-between moments, however. This series of images is a selection from five years\u2019 worth of August trips MacLellan has taken with his wife\u2019s family to Sagadahoc Bay in Georgetown. In his daily life, the photographer rock climbs and surfs; on his vacations he climbs mountains. But these trips to Georgetown are the antithesis of those activities. \u201cWe move furniture to the screened porch, do puzzles, read, cook. No one gets dressed up. There\u2019s no agenda,\u201d he says. The vacations\u2019 rhythms are ruled by the tides, which bring in water deep enough for swimming and retreat to reveal a half-mile-wide mudflat. \u201cAs the tides shift and the water moves, every moment feels temporary, which is always happening, but it\u2019s more pronounced when you have nothing else to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t

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