Visit Sheldon Fine Art, 59 America’s Cup Avenue, Newport, RI 02840. to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit MassoniArt, 203 High Street, Chestertown Maryland to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the True North Gallery, 31 Dock Square Kennebunkport Maine to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the Chatham Gallery, 595 Main Street Chatham MA to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the North Water Gallery at 27 North Water Street Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin, 30×30″ fine art pigment print and 40×40″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the Cavalier Ebanks Gallery at 10 Federal Street Nantucket this summer to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 14×14″ handmade silver gelatin, 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Journey

It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry

Elena, Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta

The Journey
There is a beauty in all art forms that is exemplified when you combine them, like words and photographs; a mystery develops as words and situations unfold before you, the place, the moment, the lighting. The photographer explores our delicate environment, and the result leads to paths and meanings that go deeper than meets the eye.
This year, I went on a journey deep into my favorite topics and places. I went to the bottom layer of my images and found their substance. It was there that I discovered the essence of photography and the simple secret that it encompasses: being there. Really being present, experiencing the entire moment, being fully engaged with all of the senses. I journeyed down the path of patience, with myself, my camera and film, with my surroundings, the light and clouds. Waiting for a cloud to pass, or the sun to reach a certain height, I discovered what it takes to make a fleeting moment truly timeless.
I visited the same places I have before, places that I am drawn to again and again…
The thing that amazes me is that each time I arrive home with something different than before.
I want to share this year’s journey with you; from small boats, to big boats, to landscapes and seascapes; and invite you in to this magical world that I captured on film, the world that is happening right now all around us.

Ruth

Small Reach Regatta
Lamoine State Park, Maine
Forty boats under 20 feet
four days of sailing

Above the Tide, WoodenBoat School, Brooklin Maine

I have been visiting this place for over a decade. WoodenBoat School has been presenting “hands-on” classes for 38 years with course offerings in boatbuilding, seamanship, and related crafts in which we honor the tradition, history, and craftsmanship. It is a wonderful community and I look forward to visiting each year.

Joyant, Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

1911 P-Class Herreshoff classic racing yacht

Southwest Harbor, Mt. Desert Island Maine

Free, Popham Beach, Maine


The day after Hurricane Irene.

Three Dories

I watched these dories for five years…

Beach Day

South Beach, Martha’s Vineyard, between Tropical Storms Katia & Lee

Autumn Visit

Barnegat Light, New Jersey

Afternoon Walk, Lucy Vincent Beach, Martha’s Vineyard

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu

These new images and more are available in a range of sizes. Enjoy and fair winds!

Tree Study, Unionville Pa

Passage, Popham Beach Maine

The Rose by Theodore Roethke

There are those to whom place is unimportant,
But his place, where sea and fresh water meet,
Is important…

People of the First Light, Mashpee Ma

A time for watching the tide,
For the heron’s hieratic fishing,
For the sleepy cries of the towhee,
The morning birds gone, the twittering finches,
But still the flash of the kingfisher,
the wingbeat of the scoter,
The sun a ball of fire coming down over the water…

Schooner Nathaniel Bowditch, Penobscot Bay, Maine

As when a ship sails with a light wind-
The waves less than the ripples made by rising fish,
The lacelike wrinkles of the wake widening, thinning out,
Sliding away from the traveler’s eye,
The prow pitching easily up and down,
The whole ship rolling slightly sideways,
The stern high, dipping like a child’s boat in a pond-
Our motion continues.

Wilderness Kayak, Adirondacks, New York

Beautiful my desire, and the place of my desire.

Marsh Pond, Parson’s Beach, Maine

I think of the rock singing,
and light making its own silence,
At the edge of ripening meadow, in early summer,
The moon lolling in the close elm, a shimmer of silver,
Or that lonely time before the breaking of morning
When the slow freight winds
along the edge of the ravaged hillside,
And the wind tries the shape of a tree,
While the moon lingers,
And a drop of rain water hangs at the tip of a leaf
Shifting in the wakening sunlight
Like the eye of a new-caught fish.

Steadfast, Long Point, Martha’s Vineyard

And I rejoiced in being what I was:
In the lilac change, the whit reptilian calm,
In the bird beyond the bough, the single one
With all the air to greet him as he flies,
The dolphin rising from the darkening waves…

Sea-Wind, South Shore, Martha’s Vineyard

And in this rose, this rose in the sea-wind,
Rooted in stone, keeping the whole of light
Gathering into itself sound and silence-
Mine and the sea-wind’s.
the above quotes are from The Rose by Theodore Roethke

Rock Study, Schoodic Penisula, Acadia National Park

There is an intrinsic simplicity and calm in our earth
that is constantly in opposition to elements
like storms, waves, rain, shifting winds.
These photographs are like poetry without words,
because they go beyond words.
The photographer’s job is to show the then and now,
the change that takes place over time and history;
a change that captures the past
and allows us to greet the future.

All Lined Up: Dodge, Opus and Indian, Old Forge, New York

Dodge: 1927 Dodge Watercar Dual Cockpit Barrel Back
Opus 26: 1926 26-foot Hacker Craft
Indian: 1903 Leighton

Classic Summer, Adirondack Region, New York

Gee-Whiz: 17 foot 1945 Century Runabout

Ranger, 135 foot J-Class Yacht, Antigua

Nothing stirs my soul more
than watching a 100 year old classic yacht
roll over a wave, sails flared,
white water crashing, crew attentive.
Michael Kahn on his Classic Collection

The Brandywine, 37×48″ archival pigment print

Showing at the Delaware Art Museum
Centennial Juried Exhibition

Michael on location, Schoodic Penisula, Acadia National Park

These new images and more are available in a range of sizes. Enjoy and fair winds!

Chatham Beach, Cape Cod

Queen’s Bath, Kauai

This beautiful island is full of enchantment…

Wherever I look you are islands
a constellation of flowers breathing on the sea
deep-forested islands mountainous and fragrant
fires on a bright ocean.
from “Islands” by W.S. Merwin

Lumahai Beach, Kauai

Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away.
What locks itself in sameness has congealed.
Is it safer to be gray and numb?
What turns hard becomes rigid
and is easily shattered…

Between Land and Sea

Pour yourself like a fountain.
Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking
finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.
from Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke

Early Morning

The morning came so quietly, I nearly missed its perfection.

Beginnings

I believe in the ordinary day
that is here at this moment and is me
I do not see it going its way
but I never saw how it came to me…

Sand Grass

… it extends beyond whatever I may
think I know and all that is real to me
it is the present that it bears away
where has it gone when it has gone from me….

Passing Clouds

…there is no place I know outside today
except for the unknown all around me
the only presence that appears to stay
everything that I call mine it lent me…

Three Waves, Coast Guard Beach

…even the way that I believe the day
for as long as it is here and is me.
“A Momentary Creed” by W.S. Merwin

Shimmering Dune Grass

Michael’s new images from Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, and Maine are offered in limited editions, as handmade photographs and fine art pigment prints.

Vela

Vela is a wooden 50′ gaff-headed sloop. She is named for the spring constellation in the northern sky, meaning “The Sail”.

Velsheda

Look for an upcoming six page spread of Michael’s photographs in Australia’s Ocean Magazine.

Breezing Up

Spartan, NY50- The fleet of NY50s was commissioned by the New York Yacht Club and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. in Bristol, R.I. Spartan measures 72’ LOA. Like her sisters, her topsides were double-planked and diagonally strapped for extra strength in the Herreshoff tradition.

Elena

Mariquita

This beautiful portrait of Mariquita will be included in Michael’s new book “Over the Dunes”.

Over the Dunes includes the best of Michael’s sailing and seascape photographs. This 140 page book is sourced, printed and bound in the United States, and set to be released in January 2015. Book signings are already scheduled for next summer, so keep an eye out for Michael as he visits his galleries. Details about the book, how to purchase it, and signing dates will be included in upcoming emails.

These new images and more are available in a range of sizes. Enjoy and fair winds!