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Unexpected – unscheduled. But that’s the way life works out. We are back up in the mountains of Georgia helping out our friends from up here. And of course, never go anywhere without a camera. So it rained yesterday afternoon. When it does, the near hills can present an interesting challenge. The ridge lines stack […]

Maybe I should do this post as a press release advertising when the April issue of PassageMaker magazine will be out. It’s coming and I am really pleased with the Penobscot Bay piece we did for them. So I should be pleased to announce its impending arrival. The careful observer will note Dee gets authorial […]

But not really work  So let’s say back at the keyboard again thanks to friends in high places as in I got an assignment from the new Executive Editor of PassageMaker magazine. Write an impressionistic article about going south with lots of pictures. Pictures are easy. It’s gratifying to see that they chose to open the […]

Another year – another winter’s day. We have been able to send out new year’s morning greetings with a new sunrise image from up in the Georgia mountains. This year the mountain morning image has already gone out and it was no sunrise. So, unable to continue a tradition, let’s get a start on the […]

It was a dark and stormy morning. Georgia got a touch of the mess that just swept up and across the country. Just wind and rain. And that had its advantages as we really haven’t been able to shoot the mountains with clouds from our hosts’ deck. Plenty of opportunities this year. And then the sun came […]

Falls colors are nothing if not color harmony – artistically and psychologically. Cool mornings, crunching leaves under one’s step, light more yellow now and lower in the sky mark advancing life cycles. It’s the color, whether the stronger palette of New England’s hills or the more muted one in the Smokies, that we take as […]

One weekend task was to produce and submit an image that embodied our Zen word. We drew our Zen assignments. Dee’s was Color harmony. Mine was Life Force. OK. Whatever. Let’s go to work. And then I ran into some almost totally decayed vacation homes from the pre-park era. Decay, color, gnarly stuff, great structure. […]

And now back to regular programming: enjoying the scenery that’s just about everywhere. Want a special place? Go up to the end of Tremont Road in the park near Townsend. Walk up a nice flat trail (former logging railroad bed) past this waterfall. Keep going because the fun begins up stream. Here the stream is […]

Workshop phase two: think about style. Think about what our style is. We all have one. An awareness of one’s style can assist the evolution of creative vision. So we looked at famous photographers with distinctive styles and were sent forth. The really great aspect of this workshop was the group of pros that assisted […]

Photography workshops are everywhere. So many, perhaps too many, photographers do them. One benefit is that these mentors take folks to the good spots. In the Smokies that is a lesser concern. Almost everywhere is a good spot. So we needed strong educational value to get an appropriate bang for our buck. The basic approach […]