Ronald Harvey, a conservator with Tuckerbrook Conservation, touches up a bird display at L.C. Bates Museum at Good Will-Hinckley on Wednesday.
Michael G. Seamans
Michael is a Maine-raised photojournalist who has been on staff at the Morning Sentinel since August 2010. He is a 2002 graduate of Sterling College in Vermont where he studied experiential education with at-risk youth populations. Prior to becoming a photojournalist he traveled the United States, Canada and Nepal as a climber, exploring some of the world’s largest and most impressive mountain ranges. Living in a van and climbing 300 days a year led him to the Forest Service as an initial attack wildland firefighter in Colorado. Michael next landed at Metropolitan State University in Denver in 2005 where he continued his education in photojournalism. From there he interned at the Fort Collins Coloraodoan, The Advocate in Baton Rouge and the Jackson Hole News and Guide. His first staff photojournalism job was with the Fort Collins Coloradoan in 2007. In 2010 Michael, a 1994 graduate of Edward Little High School, returned to Maine and a job with the Morning Sentinel. During the last 10 years, he's has received multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report on topics ranging from the Ebola epidemic, women and children’s healthcare and diamond mining in Sierra Leone to energy and climate in Labrador. He has won multiple national awards, including in the Best of Photojournalism competition as well as the National Press Photographers Association (small market) photographer of the year in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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STILL LIFE: Summer break
Dan Tracy, 28, of Oakland, takes advantage of the sunny weather and fishes the Messalonskee Stream just below Messalonskee Lake in Oakland on Friday.
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STILL LIFE: Lunker
Ben Misner, 16, hauls in a largemouth bass from the dock on the Messalonskee Stream on North Street in Waterville on Thursday.
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STILL LIFE: She’s got his back
Irish Griffith, left, helps B.J. Bernier, both of Kaplan University, dress up for an impromptu hula dance at Colby College in Waterville on Saturday, after completing the second leg of the American Lung Association’s Trek Across Maine cycling event.
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STILL LIFE: Pig in a poke
Chef Mikael Andersson checks the temperature of the pig with the help of Chef Ramon Managad, left, during preparations for a pig roast in honor of Colby College food service workers employed by Sodexo, at Colby College on Friday. Sodexo annually throws a pig roast party for its employees.
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STILL LIFE: Tall ship, taller ship
The Margaret Todd, a 151-foot-long, four-masted schooner, is dwarfed by the anchored, 51,000-ton Crystal Symphony cruise liner in Bar Harbor on Monday.
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STILL LIFE: Swollen waters
Laura St. Peter, right, stands with her son Vincent Tibbetts, 3, as Brandy Pouliot, far left peers into the swollen Messalonskee Stream from a bench on the new North Street boat launch dock on Thursday. After several days of rain the clouds broke ushering in more summer-like weather with the temperature touching 80 degrees for the next couple of days.
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STILL LIFE: Wet weeding
Cameron Mills, 21, of the Colby College grounds crew, whacks weeds in his rain slickers as rain falls in Waterville Friday afternoon.
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STILL LIFE: Weeding crew
Yvonne Lefebvre, left, and Priscilla Jackson, right, both members of the Central Maine Gardening Club, weed the flower gardens outside the Alfond Youth Center on North Street in Waterville on Thursday. The gardening club will be running a a fundraiser plant sale at the Methodist church at 22 School St. in Oakland on June 8, from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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STILL LIFE: Community gardeners
Elizabeth Vigue wipes rain from her brow as Chuck Kittrel plants peppers in their section of the Waterville Parks and Recreation garden on North Street in Waterville Friday afternoon. The couple rented the space for $10 for the summer season.