Dory in the Marsh

This new stunning image is being offered as a 14×14″ and 19×19″ toned, handmade silver gelatin photograph.

 

Vela, at the WoodenBoat School.

Michael is very excited to announce that he will be teaching a week-long course titled “Marine and Seascape Photography, how to “see” in black and white” September 6-12th at the WoodenBoat School in Brooklin Maine.

Click here for more info and to register.

Below are a few pictures from the class last year! We had a great time exploring the beautiful coast of Maine. This class sells out quickly, so sign up now!

 

A student photographing the Blue Hill Reversing Falls

 

The WoodenBoat waterfront staff takes Michael and his students out to photograph their fleet of wooden boats.

 

Michael and his students exploring Babson Island Preserve, a beautiful island full of ferns with a lovely walking trail.

 

The students head over to Brooklin Boat Yard and Center Harbor Yacht club to photograph the boats.

 

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Did you know that Michael uses film cameras, processes his own negatives, and makes handmade silver gelatin photographs in the darkroom?

 

Learn more about Michael’s process, and keep up to date about his upcoming exhibitions here:

 

 

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Dory in the Mist was our best seller last year! Shown here as a 30×30″ fine art pigment print framed in white at the Focus Gallery, Chatham MA.

 

 

Michael reviewing proofs with Schiffer Publishing for two new books, “Sailing” and “East Coast Atlantic Beaches” to be released this spring!

 

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We are excited to share the following new images that Michael captured from the beautiful state of Maine this past year! These images and more are available for purchase, warmly toned, signed, numbered in limited edition and finished to museum standards. These unique photographs have exceptional collector value that will last for generations.

 

Maine Island

 

Around the island in search of a good story.

 

Marsh Study I

 

The wisest thing you can do is be present in the present, gratefully.
Maya Angelou

 

 

Marsh Study II

 

These two new marsh images are now showing at MassoniArt in Chestertown, Maryland.

 

   

Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

 

Michael has been photographing the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta for over twenty years. Check out our boat page to see more sailing images:

 

 

 

Maine Morning

 

Late Afternoon Sailing

 

Portland Light

 

Blue Hill Reversing Falls

 

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, were none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and the music and it’s roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

 

Naskeag Point

 

boketto: The act of gazing vacantly into the distance without a thought; simply be

 

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Did you know that we offer custom crops and custom sets? Please email us with your space requirements and we will help find the perfect sizes!

 

 

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Michael kept busy this year making photographs in his darkroom, signing fine art pigment prints, giving talks, photographing seascapes and regattas, being published in magazines and showing his work throughout the galleries that represent him! See some of the highlights below, and please follow us on Instagram.

 

 

 

Michael signing a fine art pigment print of Velsehda.

 

Michael’s work on display at Stanhope and Spencer Gallery in Rockland, Maine.

 

Michael gave a presentation to the photography students at the Kent School, CT this year!

 

 

Michael’s photograph “Off Season” on display at Sheldon Fine Art in Newport, RI.

 

 

Michael’s work was featured in N Magazine, Nantucket this summer.

 

 

Thank you for a wonderful year!

 

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Photographs by Michael Kahn are warmly toned, signed, numbered in limited edition and finished to museum standards. These unique photographs have exceptional collector value that will last for generations. If you are interested in purchasing Michael’s fine art photography, learn more about the galleries that represent his work here.

 

 

Michael Kahn’s fine art photography coffee-table books include Spirit of Sailing and Over the Dunes.

 

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!