‘Secrets of nature’

Photo by Edward Batcheller, at The Parsonage Gallery, in Searsport, Maine

He says:

“My mission is to explore the hidden secrets of nature with photography.

“I focus primarily on landscape and the environment of the natural and made world, how they intersect, relate, question and inform.

“I utilize the turn of the century process of coating glass plates with emulsion, and develop the images in the traditional manner. The resultant glass plate transparencies are then organized and arranged with various structural devices that allow for transparency, layering, juxtaposition, and the play of light and shadow within the work.’’

Circa 1908) a six-masted schooner at Mack Point, the coal and freight terminal for the Northern Maine Seaport Railroad (a line opened in 1905 by the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad) at Searsport, Maine. In 1900 to 1909, 10 six-masted schooners, which delivered coal to run northern Maine locomotives, were built.