Award-winning photographer Peter Ralston was introduced to the beautiful & austere Maine coast by friends Andrew & Betsy Wyeth. In this collection of his photographs-at once straight forward & subtle, yet always stunning-Ralston has captured every aspect of Maine's coastal culture. Instrumental in forming the Island Institute, Ralston serves as its executive vice-president. He contributes much of the photography & is the art director for the institute's publication, Island Journal. ". Maine through Ralston's lens is a place of intense beauty. It takes an unusual eye & great technical skill to turn a discarded pair of fisherman's gloves into art, but Ralston does it with style." - Portland Press Herald.