A photograph (2016), a software generated 'painting' of that photograph (yesterday), and a photograph of a (1976) painting.... 'The Twin Houses.'

In the fall of 1905, Boston judge Charles Francis Jenney met English emigree watercolorist/photographer Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott out along the New England coast. The painter suggested that the judge --a passionate bird watcher-- visit his home, a major bird migration stop along mid-coast Maine, on a place called Monhegan Island. The following spring, Judge Jenney did just that, and over the next several years, he returned whenever he could. Before long, and often accompanied by his brother, a deep love and respect for the Island had grown in both, and in 1908 they bought property and sought to build summer homes there. Later that year, artist/painter Rockwell Kent --another Island resident-- was contracted to design the structures. These houses --two identical structures in complete and perfect mirror image of one another-- were completed in 1909.

I was introduced to the Island --and The Twin Houses-- in July of 1976 by my girlfriend at the time, the great-granddaughter of Judge Jenney. We stayed in the house on the left, at that time still owned by Jenney's descendants; the house on the right had been sold some years before, and was owned by the Harbormaster. My girlfriend was --and still is-- a skilled amateur photographer, and she showed me places she'd known since childhood, and that I saw for the first of many times. I didn't own a camera in those days, instead I painted or made drawings. A few years later, I bought a camera, and built a darkroom, and there you have it.

Please forgive this unremarkable bit of history and personal reminiscence. You'd probably be more interested in lenses or ISO's or what software might've been used. Its just that some stories are vital and run deep, and sometimes they take precedence over the technical aspect of things.

What ASA setting did you use for the painting and drawing? I will have to dig out my brushes to see if they had knobs for setting the ASAs. Do modern brushes have ISO knobs?

Appreciate your set and your skill range. Thank you for sharing.