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Last week we took a brief business trip back to Florida. While there I did a photo shoot for our boat builder out on a local lake. Our site was an old dock chosen because it went well out into the lake and to good water. The target boat could pass and turn just off […]

Robert lives in Newport News, VA. We are not sure just where. He has recently moved and will probably move often over the next months. He is homeless and the winter shelters have closed so he must find an overpass or sheltered building to call home until local authorities force him to move on and […]

We are in Edenton for a house tour this weekend. So far the hot ticket has been the weather. Edenton’s docks are exposed to the south and, as luck would have it, all the weather is coming in from the south. makes for bumpy ride at the dock but that’s OK. We get interesting clouds. […]

I can think of no image that speaks to the quiet elegance of Charleston’s neighborhoods more than this door wreath, one of two for this house. Nothing suggests the allure of Charleston’s streets early in the morning than the gentle light we see here. Everything comes with a price. This morning light is fleeting at […]

It’s always fun to see what a community’s Farmer’s Market has to offer. In American cities the markets vary widely – everything from struggling to exist to well established institutions. Charleston’s market seems to be seasonally established and a Saturday morning must for many. The crepe and omelet tents had what I would consider too […]

Early morning light shines kindly on Charleston’s historic and definitely pricey residential neighborhood, the entirety of Charleston south of Broad Street. Newspapers lie on doorsteps waiting for retrieval. Residents are out walking their dogs. Pickup trucks infiltrate the neighborhood as preservation craftsmen come in for their day’s work. They seem quite in context as this […]

Not a good day for the sailboat Midori. We can wonder what they were doing way out of the channel when the tide is going out in territory that has a five foot tidal range, is well charted, well marked and known to have extensive mud flats outside of the channel. Whatever the reason it’s […]

Day two at Custom Propeller Systems: A great day to watch our props from day one get their first finishing. We learned all sorts of things most important the proper name of the company. The shop has been Ellis Propeller forever. John Rose has owned it for quite some time so many refer to it […]

Industrial America is alive and, in the case of Ellis Propeller in Jacksonville, surviving. New orders are way off but fortunately for the shop people do manage to damage propellers so service work pays the bills. What we find amazing is the size of propellers and amount of damage that is repairable. The owner of […]

It’s great to be out early in the morning with camera in hand. Although there was no early activity in the race boat pits last Saturday, moored float planes offer a nice target of opportunity. The folks in Tavares advertise themselves as America’s Seaplane City. Seems to me to be ambitious marketing bordering on wishful […]