July 2015 - Dave Clough Photography

30 Jul

Rockland Developments

djclough / Artwork, Commercial / July 30, 2015 / 0 Comments

Mainebiz recently featured my photography in a cover story on all of the development in Rockland, Maine entitled, “Rock-Solid Resurgence”. They were spot on in their assessment.

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) is moving to Rockland and their Toshiko Mori designed building will open in the summer of 2016, seen below is the Executive Director, Suzette McAvoy. While CMCA’s new home is being built, they have taken up interim quarters on Rockland’s waterfront and continue to exhibit compelling and creative works of art. Luxury boatbuilder Lyman-Morse of Thomaston is establishing a land-based presence in Rockland with the construction of a five story boutique hotel at the head of Main Street – pictured below in the gallery is owner, Cabot Lyman atop the new hotel. The Farnsworth Art Museum received funding for an extensive facelift to the Wyeth Center and the building was surrounded by scaffolding a good deal of the summer season – the project is now complete and looks stunning. The Dowling Walsh Gallery on Main Street is also in the news with plans for a multi-million dollar expansion. Not pictured here is the new and very much welcomed Main Street Markets.

A rock-solid resurgence for sure.

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09 Jul

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Sugarloaf West Mountain Home, Carrabassett Valley

djclough / Architectural / July 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

I was delighted when Nancy Marshall, the PR Maven® and founder of Nancy Marshall Communications, contacted me to photograph her home in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.The Marshalls have two sons who attended Carrabassett Valley Academy as alpine ski racers, and they wanted to live close to the campus so the boys could get back and forth to school and the slopes easily.

The property is located high on West Mountain just above the championship Sugarloaf Golf Course. With views of Bigelow Mountain and a chairlift running to the side of the yard, this was a property that inspired dreams of mountainside living. Complete with an oversize Jacuzzi, and a ready-to-go ski tuning shop in the basement, this five bedroom home can handle a crowd of skiers… or golfers any time of the year.

A lovely home with expansive views, a front door to the Sugarloaf slopes, and a Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed golf course in the neighborhood…contact Mountainside Realty for more information.

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07 Jul

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Artist Morris David Dorenfeld

djclough / Artwork / July 7, 2015 / 0 Comments

Morris David Dorenfeld is a textile and tapestry artist. Earlier this year I photographed three of his Hunter Variation tapestries here in the studio. In our discussions during the shoot, I knew that his living/work space must be as creative, interesting and visually pleasing as his art is. I made plans to photograph his home and when I arrived at the coastal property some weeks later, my hunch was proven correct many times over.

A modest 24×24 post and beam structure originally built as a garage, the property is a work of art itself. The interior displays a life dedicated to his art with his loom and living space co-mingling in one room. With beautiful grounds and a garden tended to for over 35 years, it is a special place….expansive gardens hugging the home with dogwoods, weeping spruce trees and an extraordinary climbing hydrangea towering over all on the ocean’s edge.

He is represented by the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland and will have a solo exhibition there in October 2015.

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01 Jul

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Small Point Club

djclough / Architectural / July 1, 2015 / 0 Comments

The Small Point Club in Phippsburg, Maine opened its doors in 1897 and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Traditional shingle style with a wraparound piazza, it was designed by Maine native and Pittsburg-based architect, Joseph Ladd Neal (who had recently designed the Lithgow Library in Augusta, Maine). With its high-on-a-bluff placement, the wondrous views of the expansive beach down to Popham Beach are impressive in any season. The Club features several rooms for guests of its members, a spacious and welcoming parlor, and a cottage-elegant dining room. A true delight to photograph inside and out, and an honor to have been commissioned by the Small Point Club Preservation Fund to help preserve the exterior of this Club’s historic building.