Which is, after all, just what we treasure in our most iconic photos.

Ralston’s photography prints are for sale online or at the ralston gallery in rockport, me.

Web“pentecost,” as peter ralston called the photograph he shot that day on the water off tenants harbor in 1980, didn’t need any more accolades, but it received a prestigious one, earning down east magazine’s top honor in its list of the most iconic photos of and from maine.

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Acclaimed to obscure, joyful to haunting, they're the shots that tell maine's story.

Photo courtesy of peter ralston.

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