Gray Frog Photography

I am Gray Frog Photography, a hobbyist photographer who lives in, and is native of, Maine. I mostly enjoy taking photos of nature, rural life, working class life, and small town life here in my homeland to preserve it permanently before we are all reduced to nothing. My photography is both something of an art project and historical preservation project. It's both me taking photos of things I think are pretty, and things I want to prove existed before it's gone. Consider all my photos that I post to the internet to be licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Friday, November 10, 2023

Uncropped bee in my mothers garden.

This is the uncropped original of bee photo from yesterday.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199320996@N08/53322141562/in/dateposted-public/

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/628687407410148451

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

A bee on a sunflower in my mothers garden.

A bee on a sunflower in my mothers garden. This is a crop, not the full photo, but I really like it this way. The EXIF data says took this photo in 2006, and that's probably correct but it also says it's 8PM which is obviously wrong based on the lighting.

It's a very old photo in my collection, and yet after all these years it still remains one of my favorite photos I have ever taken. The bee is dead, and my mothers sunflower is dead, but in this photo I took they remain forever. This photo proves they existed.

Maybe I will also post the uncropped version later.

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/627964811976242292

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199320996@N08/53318847276/in/dateposted-public/

Waterfall in Vassalboro in 2005.

I took this photo in Vassalboro in, 2005, I think. The EXIF data says 2005 but at 5AM and since it's not dark out I'll assume 5AM is wrong.

It's one of the waterfalls on Mill Stream. This area today has lost a lot of it's trees and natural beauty to the development of a fish ladder.

You can see some bricks stacked there at the top that me and my friend found when we were climbing all over the waterfall.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199320996@N08/53316750341/in/dateposted-public/

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/627607976882647107

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Stepping stones in Jackman.

I took this photo in 2004, after setting a crayfish trap under a dock on a lake somewhere in Jackman, Maine.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199320996@N08/53231081759/in/dateposted-public/

Monday, October 2, 2023

Sleeping fish in Parker Pond.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199320996@N08/53228034891/in/dateposted-public/

Sunday, October 1, 2023

First post.

Today I have decided to start earnestly organizing and sharing my photos. I used to post some of my photos to Tumblr where they got a tiny amount of attention. Then I started posting some to Diaspora and they got a bit more attention on there. But then I kind of realized there was no good way to trace them back to me if someone reposts them.

I have a Flickr account now and I and going to be more meticulous with what I upload to it, and then from the Flickr account disseminate my photos to Diaspora and ActivityPub and possibly other places. And I plan to figure out some way to do mass watermarking of photos on Linux Mint. Doing it one at a time would take way too long.