Thomas Blagden, Photographer

"When I’m enveloped in Acadia, when the sun is just rising over tide pools and not another soul is around, yes, I own that moment. That’s what I live for and what generates the good images. Yet, it’s the accumulation of those experiences that matters more, because that sense of ownership transcends to a sense of belonging and to the discovery that we as individuals are inseparable from place and fully bound to it. The enlightenment of person by place is the baptism of Acadia. I photograph to evoke a landscape that is temporal, forever dynamic, vulnerable, mysterious, unbounded and, above all, humbling."