Fun, crowded day visiting the botanical gardens with my best friend!  Love you, honey.

It was rainy and stormy on 90% of a recent extended weekend trip to southwest coast of Florida, but it didn’t dampen spirits and fun.  I had a great time with incredible friends and family – my bud Carl,  good friend Brent, brother Larry, and  sister-in-law Jude.  Carl, Brent and I chased and ran from […]

Project 365 – Day 100 Wisteria is another one of my spring southern favorites.  It grows on a vine, typically in trees or along fences.  It can be invasive, but nite quite as overtaking as kudzu and much prettier.  This group grows is along a random tree line and overgrowth area near our home.  I […]

Project 365 – Day 98 Fuji X100s, 23mm f/2.0, 1/210 sec @ f/2.8, ISO800

Project 365 – Day 96 Fuji X-T1, 35mm f/1.4, 1/160 @ f/5.6, ISO400

Project 365 – Day 95 Easter means many things all at once, the resurrection being the most important, of course.  But it also represents springtime with tulips in bloom, azaleas starting to peek their way through, and a blanket of pollen ushering in April. Fuji X-T1, 35mm f/1.4, 1/1400 sec @ f/1.8, ISO200

Project 365 – Day 91   Fuji X100s, 23mm f/2.0, 1/20 sec @ f/5.6, ISO3200  

Project 365 – Day 49 “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” ~ Winston Churchill “Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.” ~ François de la Rochefoucauld “If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable […]

Project 365 – Day 48 There are times when heavy hitting storms produce beauty and strength, much like last night’s rain-turned-to-ice event in north Georgia. Fresh on my heart is a close friend and colleague, Angela.  Yesterday it was confirmed she has breast cancer, though details are pending regarding the stage and recommended treatment.  It […]

This is what we came for.  FLOWERS!  This is White Oak Sinks, a hollow requiring a modest 2-mile hike from the main road.  It is a small basic surrounded by steep hills.  One side of this area has an incredible waterfall that literally disappears into the ground (see this LINK from a previous visit), and […]

This Foam Flower is only one of the many, many species found throughout the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.  It was a bear to shoot, because these sway with the slightest wisp of wind.  I love it’s form and the lovely greenery that surrounded it.  I’m not a very good macro shooter.  It typically frustrates […]

Emily and I spend a special “daddy-daughter day” at the Botanical Gardens on Saturday .  I guess this was soon-to-be-born baby Sydney’s first photo outing, too! It was the perfect start to a Memorial Day weekend.  Other than harsh, full sun limiting our potential photographic subjects, the weather was absolutely perfect!  We spent about 4 […]