For over 40 years the Hamlin Memorial Library at Paris Hill, Maine has been putting on a Founder's Day and Classic Car Exhibit. This is a fundraiser to support the old historic building which houses the library. The Bahre family opens their fine automobile collection to the public with the proceeds going to the library. Since 2006, I have had the opportunity to photograph the cars and design the poster for the event.
For the more recent photographs, you can read the story about making the images for the poster on my blog.
For my first poster, the one overall car photo was provided from the Bahre's collection of images.
This is one of those images that was a case of being in the right place at the right time. The curator of the collection was parking the vehicles after the Founder's Day event while the late afternoon sun was streaming though the garage door. With this vehicle, I caught it at just the right time as he was backing in to the garage.
A Harvey Earl Cadillac. The background is the radio grille.
Do you feel like you are driving this Stutz? Most of the images in the posters have been taken outdoors on scenic Paris Hill.
If you can make it to the event, this is what the outdoor display often looks like.
Perhaps my favorite photo shoot was making images of this Alfa. Even the perspective from behind is great. An amazing car.
From Paris Hill there are views of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. In the background here the highest peak is Mount Washington. Just behind the top corner of the windshield is one of my favorite mountains, South Baldface.
In 2015, the decision was made to sell a limited edition version of the poster as an additional fundraiser for the library. This shows the limited edition poster with less text. This is another one of those times when you come across special lighting and make a shot. We had a session with another car and this Packard had to be parked outside whilst shifting cars around. The sunlight reflecting off the white building made this beautiful fill-light so I made a few images as an aside. That paid off when it was hard to schedule for another shoot in 2014 to make the 2015 poster.
This is another limited edition version of the poster. We photographed two different cars at this location, a neighbors' residence on Paris Hill. In between compositions, the home owners' shared fresh apples of old-time varieties right off the trees. When the shoot was over during the reorganizing of the parked cars, I wandered around and took a few more shots. This is where the 2017 poster photo came from.
The 2018 poster is described in a detailed blog posting. This year the Hamlin Library is having a 2019 calendar printed of a collection of all my posters to-date. Contact the library 207-743-2980 or be there at Founder's Day to get your copy.
2018 Hamlin Library Poster
Here is the 2019 poster. The story for it is detailed in a blog posting too. We have made another calendar for sale this year too. Contact the Hamlin Library or myself.
Founder's Day returns for 2021.
In 2015 we photographed two cars at this location. One made the 2016 poster, and this one was saved until now.
