Young Americans Dance center members dance their way down Main Street in Waterville on Friday night during the annual Parade of Lights.
Michael G. Seamans
Michael is a Maine-raised photojournalist who has been on staff at the Morning Sentinel since August 2010. He is a 2002 graduate of Sterling College in Vermont where he studied experiential education with at-risk youth populations. Prior to becoming a photojournalist he traveled the United States, Canada and Nepal as a climber, exploring some of the world’s largest and most impressive mountain ranges. Living in a van and climbing 300 days a year led him to the Forest Service as an initial attack wildland firefighter in Colorado. Michael next landed at Metropolitan State University in Denver in 2005 where he continued his education in photojournalism. From there he interned at the Fort Collins Coloraodoan, The Advocate in Baton Rouge and the Jackson Hole News and Guide. His first staff photojournalism job was with the Fort Collins Coloradoan in 2007. In 2010 Michael, a 1994 graduate of Edward Little High School, returned to Maine and a job with the Morning Sentinel. During the last 10 years, he's has received multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report on topics ranging from the Ebola epidemic, women and children’s healthcare and diamond mining in Sierra Leone to energy and climate in Labrador. He has won multiple national awards, including in the Best of Photojournalism competition as well as the National Press Photographers Association (small market) photographer of the year in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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SNAPSHOT: Pumped up
Lawrence High School football player Bryant Wade, No. 45, leads the team in to the gymnasium during a pep rally Friday at the Fairfield school. Lawrence will play Cheverus for the Class A state championship at 11 a.m. today in Portland.
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SNAPSHOT: Trimming the trees with lights
Lance Bates and Mike Folsom decorate the trees in Castonguay Square in Waterville for the holiday season from a cherry picker on Friday morning.
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STILL LIFE: Look who’s back
Raymond Moody puts the finishing touches on his Santa Claus decorations in front of his Main Street residence in Anson on Wednesday.
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STILL LIFE: Cartoon fans serious about their apples
Sarah Kinney and her sister Abbagail, 6, sort through apples at the Waterville Farmers’ Market at The Concourse on Thursday afternoon.
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STILL LIFE: A little fall fishing
Bob Nason casts a streamer fly on Messalonskee Lake from the dam in Oakland on Friday night.
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SNAPSHOT: Freefall
Briana Quirion, 12, center, swings as her brother Alex Owens, 10, leaps from his swing Tuesday at North Street Park in Waterville.
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STILL LIFE: Charitable lobster rolls
George J. Mitchell School students, from left, Alan Brooker, 8, Andrew Wolman, 7, Ashley Harwood, 8, and Elle King, 7, prepare to store lobster sandwiches made by volunteers from the Maine Children’s Home in a refrigerator at the school in Waterville on Friday. Sandwich proceeds go to the Christmas Program at the Maine Children’s Home.
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SNAPSHOT: Don’t rain on my game
A soccer spectator makes his way to the field for the boys’ matchup between Mt. Blue High School and Bangor High School at the University of Maine at Farmington soccer fields on Thursday
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STILL LIFE: Back to the barn
Nate Libby, far right, with Rainbow Valley Farm, ushers dairy cows across West River Road in Sidney after an afternoon of grazing in the pastures Thursday. The dairy cows spend most of the day in the pastures feeding on grass and spend the night in the barn.