Most Iconic Maine Photos

There’s a trace of the sacred in it — in the light, in the title — plus a hint of the absurd, the faintest whiff of the freewheeling nature of that day at sea.

The shot is all feel-good goofy nostalgia — one part Norman Rockwell, one part Yankee wit.

George French delivered 20 years worth of stirring images, mostly black-and-white, of pastoral landscapes, but he was also a devoted chronicler of working people.