San Francisco is a wonderful city.  Never ever visit without a camera in tow.  🙂  Whether shooting casually along the streets, or visiting iconic locations, there is so much to shoot.  It is a very vibrant city with lots of texture and diversity. I wanted to do an evening shoot on my last night of […]

Yesterday (Saturday), Kathy treated me to an afternoon date at Tunes from the Tombs, a music festival at Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery.  What a Father’s Day treat!  We had never heard of it until a good friend, Phil, mentioned it to me last week.  Oakland Cemetery is huge, full of history, and perhaps most notably […]

My brother Mike, my daughter’s beau Evan, and I met up with Uncle Bobby the 2nd morning after Christmas at Mike’s cabin.  “Camp Liberty” is located on the Buffalo River near our home town of Hohenwald, TN.  I spent many a day in my youth along the river.  Daddy and I would occasionally float it […]

Each year we make the 4 hour trek to middle Tennessee (Columbia) to visit my brother Mike and his family during the holiday season.  We’ve been doing this for about 10 years, and it has become a treasured tradition at Christmastime.  We share gifts, eat tons, watch movies, eat more, visit the nearby home town […]

I am a great admirer of street photography, but I have never considered myself very good at it.  Street photography requires a completely different approach and artistic eye than that of a more thought out, carefully composed landscape image.  One must be able to react quickly to capture the right moment or expression, or to […]

This trip to London provided my first opportunity to grab a few daytime photos of the London Eye.  The main purpose of the first image is to show it’s scale next to the 6-story County Hall.  The Eye is a massive structure. From the London Eye website: Since opening in March 2000 the EDF Energy […]

I returned yesterday from an October business trip to London.  True to form, I could not resist taking a small(ish) camera kit.  Given it was a short trip – depart Monday, return Friday – I was tempted to leave the gear behind.  The extra bag and weight are terribly inconvenient at times, but I knew […]

Evan and I went downtown to the ATL for a little Dragoncon parade action.  It was packed … matter of fact, we could barely see the parade itself.  But there were lots of sights “behind the scenes”.  🙂  

I am a cyclist, and therefore, I am also a Tour de France fan.  I watch it every summer, and the past 3 weeks have been no exception.  I’m in awe of the stamina and determination of the Tour riders. Kathy and I were fortunate to visit Paris 4 years ago.  The only possible way […]

“Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.” ~Charles Dickens Old cities give birth to architectural character and texture, not only as it relates to their time period, but also from natural aging and decay.  And this is […]

One of the things I had not remembered from previous trips to Savannah is the influence of the Savannah School or Art and Design (SCAD).  As I mentioned in another post, they have played a central part in preserving and rebuilding Savannah over the past 15-30 years.  But, the city is also vibrant with their […]

This image was taken at the Mercer Williams house, home of Jim Williams from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Facts about southern live oaks: -The southern live oak is the most well known of live oak species and was the first to be given the live oak name. Live oaks indicate the […]