America’s Roadside Bloomery
I had a thought after I posted this image of Black Eyed Susans (and other flowers) taken yesterday on a Floyd County roadside. Here it is:It would be neat for contributors from all over the country to offer their images…
Category Outdoors
A Field Guide to Light
That title contains some essence of what I’d like any potential photography book to be about. In some cases, the actual subject of a photo would be of most interest. But more often than not, it would be about the…
Beauty Upon Beauty: Not
Black Vulture Glamour Shot spotted on the same country road from whence the chickory flower pictures came earlier in the week. I rounded a bend, and greeting me were three black vultures on three consecutive fence posts. Only one remained…
Hmmmm. My Ears Still Ring.
Nope. It don’t make me wanna holler hiDeeHo! (Reference to _____ — you boomers out there?) I’m talking about two rounds from the .44 magnum short barrel rifle, fired into the bank. I had nothing to shoot at, and didn’t…
Quiet Places of the Heart
Dew beads up on Solomon’s Seal leaves along Nameless Creek, May 2007
The Seldom Scene
I have a few *pterible images from that Blue Ridge Parkway meadow full of ferns I discovered a couple of weeks back, and will post one or two of my favorites. As with wildflowers, the first blooms (as if ferns…
Wildlife: Up Close and Personal
Ann called almost inaudibly from the kitchen. It almost seemed as if she were trying to talk without even moving her lips. Finally I made out what she was almost saying: turkey. Right. Here. I grabbed the camera and got…
Picture This
“The back page of an October issue of San Francisco magazine displays a vivid photograph of a small boy, eyes wide with excitement and joy, leaping and running on a great expanse of California beach, storm clouds and towering waves…