Westlake Library: Language and Light
You CAN get to Hardy, Virginia from Goose Creek, but both places are happily a bit off the beaten path. Two weeks from tomorrow, I’ll visit that part of the Commonwealth for the first time, and I’m glad I have…
Category Photography
The Old and the New
I’m leaving out of here to drive down Bent Mountain (in the all-to-familiar fog) to meet some folks that have asked me to be a part of what seems on this side of the meeting-to-know-more as a good thing to…
Running the Numbers
Maybe you’ve run across the imaginative, meticulous, numerically-oriented photographic works of Chris Jordan. But have you really SEEN them? Here’s how he describes his site and project, Running the Numbers: Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the…
Cloud Whisperer
The clouds would not relent. They insisted I drive home the longest way necessary to feature them in a photograph yesterday afternoon, with or without the competing fall colors, as long as they got feature focus. And of course, I…
Shaking Things Up
Image by fred1st via Flickr “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.” For me, with the onset of cooler weather, and after the brain-fuzz of summer, I feel the urge to NOT do what…
Worth a Thousand Words: Photo Competition
I had really expected that prizes would be awarded from a hundred or more entries in this year’s photography competition for the Floyd County Harvest Festival. Lord knows, there is a large and active photography club here, made up of…
Seeing and Sharing the World: A New Camera?
Note to Self–Why I am thinking of changing horses…er, cameras: I wrestle with the notion of allowing myself to even consider spending a large sum of money to get something I’ve already got: the Nikon D200 I’ve used for almost…