Breaking Seas, Portland Head Light (2023) Photograph by Francois de Melogue

Breaking Seas, Portland Head Light
Francois de Melogue
2023 | Archival pigment print on 100% cotton rag fine art paper | 25x17

Portland Head Light stands at the edge of Cape Elizabeth on a shelf of dark, fractured granite, its white tower catching whatever cold light the sky will offer. Below, a swell has met the ledge and exploded — a wall of white water three stories high, suspended for an instant before it collapses back onto the rock. The keeper's house sits just behind, its clapboards pale against the dark shingles of the roof, as indifferent to the chaos as the tower itself. Far out on the horizon, the dark stub of Ram Island Ledge Light punctuates the grey water.

The sky above is busy — long streaks of cloud pulled tight across the frame, the kind of sky that arrives before the cold front, not after. Black and white strips the scene of everything soft. What remains is weight: the weight of the stone, the weight of the water, the weight of a structure that has occupied this particular point of land since 1791. The spray hangs in the air like smoke.

Quality is about longevity. I use a high-resolution Canon R5 Mark II to capture every detail of the Maine landscape. Each piece is printed in-studio using professional-grade Canon Pro-1100 and Epson P9000 systems with archival pigment inks on natural cotton paper to create a print that will last for generations.
Print only, with a 1/4 inch wide white bordering for convenient matting and (or) framing
Unmatted (unmounted) / unframed.

Materials used:

Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 using museum-grade archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag fine art paper.

Details:

• Photograph on Paper
• From a limited edition of 25
• Size: 63.5 x 43.18cm (unframed)
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Unspecified
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky

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