The Friends of the Topsham Library are again sponsoring a photo exhibit, Joy of the Lens. Two of my aerial photos are now on display there. If you can, please go take a look, the exhibit is full of great photographs.
This photo shows the 400 million year old Katahdin Pluton with the 300-100 year old Acadian Orogeny, now known as the western Maine mountains and the White Mountains, in the background. To me, the most startlingly aspect of this scene is how well preserved Katahdin looks, while the mountains to the west have eroded a lot. Also, the photo tries to depict the mystery of 380 million years, from the time of great geologic upheavals around Katahdin, to the glacial period 30,000 years ago. There is little there, neither fossil records nor geologic transformation, just mystery.
