Robert F. Bukaty has been working as a photographer for the Associated Press since 1993, and was a member of the AP team that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of President Clinton’s impeachment. However, Bukaty’s many photographs of everyday life in the state of Maine, where he is based, are a constant source of joy and wonder. The images are beautifully made portraits of Maine’s people, its landscape, its wildlife, and, of course, its ever-changing seasons. Gathered here, moving from spring to winter, is a collection of some of his Maine photography from the past few years.
Daily Life in Maine, as Photographed by Robert F. Bukaty
1. Red fox kits play fight in a field at the edge of the woods in Parkman, Maine, on May 23, 2014.
2. The sun rises east of Ram Island Ledge Light at the mouth of Portland Harbor, on July 9, 2009.
3. A bull leaps over an electric fence as he is driven back into a pasture after escaping onto a road in Turner, Maine, on May 29, 2016.
4. The nearly full moon sets at dawn over Bath, Maine, on April 12, 2006.
5. A puffin prepares to land with a bill full of fish on Eastern Egg Rock off the Maine coast on July 1, 2013.
6. Nicole Grohoski, of Ellsworth, Maine, struggles with her canoe after it filled with water at Six Mile Falls during the 40th annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race in Bangor, Maine, on April 15, 2006.
7. The full moon sets behind Hunt Mountain on a privately owned tract of land surrounded by land that now comprises the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument near Patten, Maine, on August 7, 2017.
8. The marine biologist Diane Cowan holds a 2-pound lobster in a lobster pound next to her home in Friendship Long Island, Maine, on July 4, 2007.
9. A ketch passes the Rockland Breakwater Light during the Parade of Sail in Rockland, Maine, on July 15, 2011. The parade was part of festivities celebrating the 75th anniversary of the windjamming industry. The tall ships, which now carry paying customers, originally carried fish, granite, and lumber prior to the advent of steamships and trains.
10. Mark Warner, a guide with Acadia Mountain Guides, climbs Wonder Wall, a rock-climbing route at ocean's edge at Otter Cliffs at Acadia National Park, near Bar Harbor, on August 1, 2018.
11. Russell Norris, of Tylertown, Mississippi, dives into the chilly Swift River at Coos Canyon in Byron, Maine.
12. A light on a dock illuminates the early morning fog on Hodgdon Island in Boothbay, Maine, on July 21, 2017.
13. A moose crosses a logging road near the West Branch of the Penobscot River in Maine's North Woods in September of 2001.
14. Autumn colors are reflected in the Royal River above the dam at Sparhawk Mill, in Yarmouth, Maine, on October 28, 2010.
15. Buzz Pinkham shouts during the motorized competition at the fourth annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest Regatta, on October 11, 2009, in Damariscotta, Maine. Pinkham and a friend came up with the idea for a race while looking for something to do with a 700-pound pumpkin they had shown at a county fair. They hollowed it out, attached a motor, and launched what has become a wacky race that attracts more than a thousand people to town.
16. In this October 24, 2014 photo, an uninhabited old farmhouse sags in disrepair during a nor'easter rainstorm in Searsport, Maine.
17. A motorcyclist cruises past a maple tree displaying its bright fall foliage, on October 6, 2014, in Freeport, Maine.
18. A lobster-fishing boat motors out to sea at sunrise off South Portland, Maine, on September 13, 2017.
19. A bobcat watches from the edge of the woods in Baileyville, Maine, on October 2, 2013.
20. A couple takes in the view of the Atlantic Ocean and the coastal town of Camden, Maine, from a ledge on 1,375-foot Mount Megunticook in Camden Hills State Park on October 12, 2009.
21. A girl holds a handful of wild blueberries picked near Sherman, Maine, on August 7, 2017.
22. The State House stands surrounded by fall foliage on October 23, 2017, in Augusta, Maine.
23. A boy finishes lighting a patch of jack-o'-lanterns at the Camp Sunshine Maine Pumpkin Festival, in Cumberland, Maine, on October 4, 2008. Volunteers tried to beat the Guinness Record for most lit jack-o'-lanterns. They managed to light just over 23,000 pumpkins, short of the record of 30,128. Camp Sunshine is a Maine-based national retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
24. Parents dressed as Wizard of Oz characters take their children trick-or-treating at a shopping center at sunset in Freeport, Maine, on October 31, 2017.
25. A chickadee may have wished it went south for the winter as it rests on an ice-coated branch at sunrise with the temperature at 13 degrees below zero, on January 22, 2007, in Westfield, Maine.
26. In this long-exposure shot, holiday lights reflect in the waters off Nubble Light, silhouetting the photographer Michael Blanchette of Bedford, New Hampshire, on December 11, 2017, in York, Maine.
27. The snowboarder Jaden Bao, of South Portland, Maine, catches some air while participating in Santa Sunday, the 16th annual charity fundraising event at the Sunday River ski resort in Newry, Maine, on December 6, 2015.
28. The first light of dawn colors clouds behind snow-covered spruce trees on Little Jackson Mountain, near Weld, Maine, on December 4, 2015.
29. Heavy surf slams into the 72-foot-tall Ram Island Ledge Lighthouse, at the mouth of Portland Harbor, in December of 2009.
30. Fierce winds blow snow as the snowboarder Garrett Ramos, 20, uses a shovel to build a jump in Portland on January 3, 2014.
31. Siberian huskies charge from the starting line, leading a team run by Ingrid Bower, of Underhill, Vermont, in the Irving Woodlands Can Am Crown 100-mile sled dog race, in Fort Kent, Maine, on March 3, 2018.
32. Seth Bell, of Waterford, Maine, performs an aerial stunt during the Rave X Outer Limits freestyle tour show at the Rangeley Snodeo in Rangeley, Maine, on January 22, 2011.
33. A woman crosses Congress Street during a snowstorm in Portland on February 8, 2013.
34. From left, the Rumford, Maine, firefighters Mark Arsenault, Ray Crockett, and Brian Lyle, along with other teammates, compete in the Masters of the Hose ski race at the Sunday River ski resort on March 25, 2018. The 28th annual race raised money for the Sunday River Community Fund.
35. Wind-blown frost clings to berries following a snowstorm on Little Jackson Mountain near Weld, Maine, on December 4, 2015.
36. Two passengers brave the frigid weather while riding outside on a ferry crossing Casco Bay in Portland, Maine, at sunrise, on January 3, 2013.