This remarkable photographer was once known as “the Ansel Adams of Maine”

My photojournalist BDN colleague Troy Bennett just posted this fabulous tribute to the Maine-based photographer Kosti Ruohomaa. 

Famed painter Andrew Wyeth is pictured sketching (above left) in an abandoned Waldoboro house in a 1947 photo by Kosti Ruohomaa hanging at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The photo appeared in Life magazine in 1948. Log drivers (above right) stand, frozen in time, in another Ruohomaa photo, taken on the Machias River in 1958.

Famed painter Andrew Wyeth is pictured sketching (above left) in an abandoned Waldoboro house in a 1947 photo by Kosti Ruohomaa hanging at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The photo appeared in Life magazine in 1948. Log drivers (above right) stand, frozen in time, in another Ruohomaa photo, taken on the Machias River in 1958.

I feel sure you will enjoy Troy’s story and the many evocative photos he includes.

Meg Haskell

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Meg Haskell is a curious second-career journalist with two grown sons, a background in health care and a penchant for new experiences. She lives in Stockton Springs. Email her at mhaskell@bangordailynews.com.