You’ve seen the Connecticut River—but not like this. Vermont photographer and drone specialist Caleb Kenna spent a year shooting Dartmouth’s small portion of New England’s longest river. His bird’s-eye images offer a sometimes disorienting, low altitude take on the waterway, which serves as a western boundary for the campus and a line between two states—a natural and essential component of the College since its beginning.
An eye in the sky can bring surprises.
“While the terrain where I fly is often well-known to me, I can rarely predict what kinds of compositions I’ll walk away with,” says Kenna. “There is a soaring sense of excitement and discovery when ascending over familiar landscapes.”
From the magnificent fall foliage along its riverbanks to the hope of a spring thaw, from its warm summer breezes to its rock-solid freeze in winter, the Connecticut has long served Dartmouth as a classroom and laboratory, a source of meditation and inspiration, a playground for sport and hijinks, and a pleasing panorama of lavish beauty.
