Recent Entries
Fallen Tree at Preacher Rock
**I had visited Preacher Rock on a previous excursion and tried to make some interesting images but yet failed due to haze and glare so common in the Blue Ridge moutains. So I returned early one morning to try again. It was a bit cold at sunrise but the morning unfolded to a nice 50-ish […]
First time Pyrocat HD
**I had a couple of shots to develop from a hike in January. A nice fallen tree near Preacher Rock on the Appalachian Trail near Suches, Georgia, and a spot along the Cooper river near Suches as well. I decided it was time to see what all the fuss is about Pyro negatives and FP4. […]
Trahlyta Falls
**As a personal project I plan to photograph as many waterfalls and scenic hiking areas in North Georgia as I can in the next decade. This area is known in Indian lore as the land of a thousand waterfalls. Fortunately many are preserved in the Chattahoochee National Forest and are fairly easily accessible. Water has […]
Raven Cliff IV
**Up near Helen Georgia is a great twisty road known as the Richard Russel Scenic Parkway. There are some scenic valley views and it is a heck of a fun drive in a sports car. There are at least two major waterfall destinations. Dukes creek falls, which is a relatively easy hike with wide pathways […]
Mt. Charleston Loop Nevada
**In September 2015 my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in Las Vegas. However the photographer in me was not going to pass up an opportunity to take some images from the desert and nearby mountains. We took a drive one day up the Mt Charleston Loop. Read the full story and see […]
Finding Your Grail
**We all have that one image that sticks in our mind and would like to produce something like it. Many photographers trek to Yosemite to photograph in the same spots as Ansel Adams did. One photographers whose work I love hails from Hilton Head island South Carolina. Ben Ham finds some beautiful marsh and lowland […]
Smoky Mountains and a tale of woe
**I took my family on a long weekend trip to the Great Smokey Mountains. We stayed in a modern cabin near Pigeon Forge and did all the usual touristy things like visit Dollywood and shop in the towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. We took some scenic drives and the family even allowed me to […]
First outting with 4×5 camera – Oakland Cemetary Atlanta
**Getting back into film photography is challenging enough these days. So I decided to take a darkroom class from the Spruil arts center in Dunwoody. I had to spend the Saturday before my first class getting to know my camera again and decided to head down to Oakland Cemetary in Atlanta. I managed to get […]
My 4×5 Ikeda Anba
**My Ikeda Anaba 4×5 with its Schneider 180mm lens. Update July 2017 – sold and replaced with a Chamonix 04N2. See pictures and a review HERE
ST. Peter’s Bench
**On my way back from the gym this week I saw this amazing cloudy sunset. I decided to revisit the park where the serendipity teepee stands and see if I could get a dramatic shot of it against the sky. The clouds were moving rapidly and the brightness of the sky against the earth left […]