John & Cynthia Orcutt

photographers of natural and built environments

In our photographs, we seek to distill content to it’s most simple and direct language, to separate it from features that complicate or minimize their graphic qualities and allow us to extract their true substance. Please explore the galleries below to see images from Maine, our home state, and other places.

Above: Sandhill cranes fly above the Platte River near Wood River, Nebraska, returning to the sand banks to roost for the evening, during the great sandhill crane migration this spring. Over 80% of the world’s population of sandhill cranes return to this 90-mile stretch of the river in Nebraska to refuel on food found in adjacent fields and meadows before heading north for the summer. Look in the New Work Gallery for additional images of this amazing spectacle.