By — Anna Sillers Anna Sillers Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/photo-essay-freezing-bangor-maine Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Photo essay: Below freezing in Bangor, Maine Nation Feb 11, 2015 5:19 PM EDT While residents in New York and New England scramble to shovel themselves out of the latest snowstorm before the next one hits, a photo essay in the Bangor Daily News, curated by visual editor Brian Feulner, brings out the artistic side of snow-covered streets and parka-bundled Northerners. People use pick poles to guide ice blocks to the galamander they use to lift them from the water. With the exception of a few minutes’ use of a chainsaw, the ice harvesting tools used by the crew are the same as they would have been in the 1930’s. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News For the past five months, Feulner and fellow photogs ventured out to capture the sights of a sub-zero Bangor, Maine, because, as he explained, readers love a weather story. “Instead we have shivering photographers trying to be artful in a New England ‘tundra’ who love nothing more than having their photos on a news site or in print delivered straight to you and your warm and comfortable office desk, living room or kitchen table.” Horses in the light snow at a farm in Newburgh, Maine. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News Feulner, a Maine photographer accustomed to shooting in the cold, also said that not only do photographers have to go out in the cold weather for the photos, but freezing temperatures often wreak havoc on expensive camera equipment. That is, if photographers can successfully keep their equipment from falling into a bottomless snow pit. View more photos from the newspaper on tonight’s NewsHour Shares segment on the PBS NewsHour and see the full essay on Bangor Daily News’ photo blog Collage. A man tries his luck catching smelts through a crack in the ice of the Penobscot River that flows through Bangor, Maine. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News A leaf lays on the snow in Bangor during a fall storm in central Maine. The storm hit just a few days before Election Day. Photo by Brian Feulner/Bangor Daily News Downed lines on Sanford Street in Bangor left the road closed and area residents unable to leave their homes after a November storm brought several inches of wet snow to central Maine. Photo by Brian Feulner/Bangor Daily News A pigeon eats berries in a snow covered tree on a November morning in Bangor. A storm brought several inches of snow to the central Maine on Thanksgiving Day. Photo by Brian Feulner/Bangor Daily News Ice covers branches in Holden, Maine, on Christams day. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Anna Sillers Anna Sillers
While residents in New York and New England scramble to shovel themselves out of the latest snowstorm before the next one hits, a photo essay in the Bangor Daily News, curated by visual editor Brian Feulner, brings out the artistic side of snow-covered streets and parka-bundled Northerners. People use pick poles to guide ice blocks to the galamander they use to lift them from the water. With the exception of a few minutes’ use of a chainsaw, the ice harvesting tools used by the crew are the same as they would have been in the 1930’s. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News For the past five months, Feulner and fellow photogs ventured out to capture the sights of a sub-zero Bangor, Maine, because, as he explained, readers love a weather story. “Instead we have shivering photographers trying to be artful in a New England ‘tundra’ who love nothing more than having their photos on a news site or in print delivered straight to you and your warm and comfortable office desk, living room or kitchen table.” Horses in the light snow at a farm in Newburgh, Maine. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News Feulner, a Maine photographer accustomed to shooting in the cold, also said that not only do photographers have to go out in the cold weather for the photos, but freezing temperatures often wreak havoc on expensive camera equipment. That is, if photographers can successfully keep their equipment from falling into a bottomless snow pit. View more photos from the newspaper on tonight’s NewsHour Shares segment on the PBS NewsHour and see the full essay on Bangor Daily News’ photo blog Collage. A man tries his luck catching smelts through a crack in the ice of the Penobscot River that flows through Bangor, Maine. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News A leaf lays on the snow in Bangor during a fall storm in central Maine. The storm hit just a few days before Election Day. Photo by Brian Feulner/Bangor Daily News Downed lines on Sanford Street in Bangor left the road closed and area residents unable to leave their homes after a November storm brought several inches of wet snow to central Maine. Photo by Brian Feulner/Bangor Daily News A pigeon eats berries in a snow covered tree on a November morning in Bangor. A storm brought several inches of snow to the central Maine on Thanksgiving Day. Photo by Brian Feulner/Bangor Daily News Ice covers branches in Holden, Maine, on Christams day. Photo by Gabor Degre/Bangor Daily News We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now