The Plains in Maine [Rf Photo of the Day]

Photo © Peter Greeno

Portland, Maine-based photographer Peter Greeno says he’s been witnessing a slow transformation of his home state over the past few years. “Historically Maine has been a very homogenous state, but lately there has been a large influx of immigrants from African countries,” he notes. So, for a personal project, Greeno wanted to reflect this transformation by embracing the beauty of both the landscape and its new inhabitants.

This is Nuru, a Kenyan native who now calls Maine home. Greeno found an overgrown blueberry field in Kennebunk Plains that, he says, “has the dusty, dry feel of her former home, along with wide open spaces, which are unlike the forest-covered Maine that we are so accustomed to seeing in this region.” He instructed Nuru so that her posture matched the curve of the sapling in the foreground to portray “the sense of someone who is at home in her element.”

(Shot using a Canon 5D Mark III and four speed lights gelled to full Color Temperature Orange, or CTO, warming the scene enough so that “an image made in Maine in April has the feeling of a much warmer place,” Greeno says.)

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