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  • Published
    July 14, 2023

    In photos: The best of Varsity Maine spring sports

    Photo by Brianna Soukup/Press Herald York’s Cary Drake comes in first in the 800-meter run at the Class B State Track Championships at Freeport High School on June 3. Photo by Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Mt. Ararat’s Kennedy Lampert, foreground, gets a hug from teammate Alex Durant after Lampert hit an inside-the-park home run during a […]

  • Published
    July 14, 2023

    In photos: The best of Varsity Maine winter sports

    Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Carrabec High School head basketball coach Erik Carey prepares his players for a game at Carrabec High School in Solon on Tuesday, January 17. Photo by Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Ellsworth diver Kiera Springer completes her dive under the scrutiny of judges during the Class B girls swimming championships at […]

  • Published
    July 14, 2023

    In photos: The best of Varsity Maine fall sports

    Photo by Ben McCanna/Press Herald Scarborough’s Ali Mokriski, left, and Lana Djuranovic celebrate after Djuranovic scored a header off Mokriski’s corner kick to win in double overtime against Brunswick in the Class A girls’ soccer state championship. Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Press Herald Cheverus’s Joe Osei, left, celebrates with teammate Elijah Timlin after Timlin scored […]

  • Published
    December 20, 2021

    In photos: The hunt for the perfect Christmas tree

    The storybook vision of Christmas includes a crackling fire, snow falling outside and a brightly decorated Christmas tree. There’s a growing demand for real Christmas trees, according to market research firm Mordor Intelligence, which found that millennial households are looking for real trees as biodegradable and recyclable options. For those in the real tree camp, it’s not just about having a tree. It’s about the process of picking one that tradition and nostalgia demands. Press Herald photographers went looking for the real thing.

  • Published
    November 8, 2021

    In photos: Scenes of fall in Maine

    “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns,” wrote Mary Ann Evans, who later took the pen name George Eliot, to her tutor Maria Evans when she was about 22 years old. Press Herald photographers recorded the rich reds, greens, golds and browns of the season.

  • Published
    October 25, 2021

    In photos: Seeing red

    Red is a strong color. It can represent passion, happiness, danger or beauty. In China, it is the traditional color worn by brides and symbolizes joy, luck and happiness. In Japan, bridges in the gardens of temples are painted red because they are passages to sacred places, and red is thought to expel evil. In ancient Rome, the words for beautiful and red were identical. In some places in Central Africa, red can also represent mourning and death. The Red Cross changed its colors to green and white in parts of the continent. But red is a friend to photographers. A small splash of it can go a long way to making a good photo. Here are some examples of Press Herald photographers seeing red.

  • Published
    July 12, 2021

    In photos: Maine summer in full swing

    It begins unofficially after Memorial Day, with flowers in full bloom in June and ever-lengthening hours of sunshine. July brings the heat, warmer ocean water in the southern part of the state – and the tourists. It begins to slip through our fingers in August, all too soon. Summer in Maine.

  • Published
    May 3, 2021

    In photos: Scenes of April give way to flowers of May

    Our photographers capture the dreary and the glorious of April before it finally yields to the sunshine of true spring.

  • Published
    March 15, 2021

    In photos: Let there be light

    Daylight saving time started again on Sunday, leading to dreams of those long summer nights in Maine, when the sun doesn’t set until after 8 p.m. There’s a bipartisan bill in Congress now, called the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, sponsored by politicians as different as U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., that would make DST permanent. If it passes, we would not switch our clocks back in the fall. Meanwhile, Press Herald photographers took advantage of our lengthening days to look for beautiful light.

  • Published
    February 15, 2021

    In photos: Ice, an otherworldly beauty

    Love it or hate it, winter is here, in all its icy glory. When you are freezing outside – your feet like stone, your fingers like marble – consider the miracle of ice. Water, liquid and gas, made solid. Look closely and you’ll find its otherworldly beauty.