Gull on Rock           Gull Standing           Rock Design           Gull Soaring Gull on Rock

Wells Beach is only 12 miles from Jean Henderson's childhood home. Low tide offered some unique views as the seagulls take over.

          Moonrise           Sunset           Streambed           Pines and Leaves           Where Lightening Struck           Initial View           Lake's Edge           Two Snails           Lakeshore Flowers           Lake Grasses           Fir Tree Moonrise

Jean Henderson and her oldest friend met when they were 4 years old and grew up together in Maine. Janet Neal picks up Jean each year for a weeklong stay at her home on Little Sebago Lake in Gray, Maine. As always, God's mysteries draw Jean's eyes. These images were taken in September 2010. "Lake's Edge" was selected to be in the Homegrown: Celebrating 30 Years of Artistic Community exhibit at ECSU's Akus Gallery in April 2011.

          The Light           Searose to the Water           Traditional View           The Wild Side           Searose           Crevice At Low Tide           From the Quiet Side           Fences The Light

Portland Headlight at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth was always Jean Henderson's favorite spot from the time she was a young girl on a Sunday afternoon trip. In those earlier days, Jean and her brother were able to run through the bunkers that remained opened. In June 1962 the fort was officially closed. When the Town of Cape Elizabeth purchased the fort in 1964, it almost immediately buried the bunkers under huge mounds of dirt. The lighthouse is located at the entrance to the Portland Harbor where its first building was completed in 1898.

In her film days Jean spent many, many hours there in all kinds of weather as the ocean is a great source of God's beauty and power for her. She made her home in Portland for the ten years previous to moving to Connecticut and considers Portland her "Soul City." Those images which appear in a black border have been exhibited.

          Willi Crossing           Trestle Bridge           Old Dam Gear           Pink           Moss Man           Algae With Moss           Laid Off Factory Worker           Bridge St. Falls           Tracks to Nowhere Willi Crossing

From her home State of Maine Jean Henderson moved to Connecticut in 1982. She made her home in Hartford for about a year before moving to Lebanon. In 1996 she adopted Willimantic as her home because it felt so much like her hometown, a college and factory town with a river running through it. Following many, many years of severe depression, Jean finally once again felt the joy of watching the play of light on a subject and dug out the old 35mm camera in December 2008. In August 2009 she made her first digital pictures and began the learning curve which she describes as "climbing a steep mountain sitting in the middle of an ocean." Climbing this mountain also brought her enough joy that her bipolar disorder stabalized. The images presented here were taken in May 2010.