Rodin’s the Thinker, Wikipedia Commons
Went to Augusta, Maine, yesterday for a conference, where I took a bunch of pictures but not a single good one. Even when a conference is interesting, as this one was, it’s very hard to make it look interesting, although in one shot a panelist looked as absorbed as Rodin’s The Thinker.
I need a camera that shows thought processes — or a cartoonist who can draw light bulbs over people’s heads.
So here are few photos of a stretch-my-legs stop instead. Wells was about halfway to the Augusta, and I was curious about it as I always heard that a founder of Wells (Edmund L. Littlefield) was an ancestor. I couldn’t stay long, but the spiffy little train station made me want to take the Downeaster from Boston someday. Maybe spend a weekend in Portland and check out its art museum. …
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I love the honesty–“I took a bunch of pictures but not a single good one.” I’ve had so many days like that. But more often, days when I had a bunch of opportunities to take good pictures, but didn’t have my camera.n
Still, Rodin’s Thinker got my attention, which goes to show that sometimes there’s good news, we can count on the other person’s picture.