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Nostalgia is a wonderfully powerful phenomenon. It transforms experiences altering perspective, coloring moods, adding texture to events. So much so we perhaps become nostalgic for times that never existed. Now modern technology has its own transformative powers. We can sit on the computer on a rainy Sunday afternoon doing pretty much the same thing. When […]

Botany Day Road down by Edisto Beach has a stretch of Live Oaks (maybe a couple hundred yards) that are to die for. The results of an internet image search will attest to their popularity. Many images. Too many images just plain bad. Lovely territory but not easy to capture. We took off in the […]

                    My definition of a great place to be: In the woods, no more than 15 minutes off a regular highway, parked beside a lovely little mountain stream with somewhat reasonable access down to the water, no one else around. I now know why one Rocky […]

                    My compliments to the US Forest Service. They have run the Pisgah National Forest for years much like a national park. They maintain roads with parking access to trails, creeks and waterfalls some of which are the most popular in western North Carolina. While Courthouse […]

What a deal! Wednesday night minor league (Class A) baseball. Drive barely 5 minutes. Park for free in the Municipal Building parking lot. Pay $5.00 for a general admission ticket. Get a free senior citizen meal – a hot dog, a small drink and an even smaller bag of chips. And then sit anywhere because the attendance is sparse at best and no attendants/ushers check anything. […]

It should come as no surprise that conversation around here and amongst our extended wandering friends is dominated by the heat – the effects of water and air temperatures on us and our machines. Everybody is hot. Everything is hot.  So let’s think cool, clear water. And to co-opt the signature phrase of the most interesting man […]

It should come as no surprise that conversation around here and amongst our extended wandering friends is dominated by the heat – the effects of water and air temperatures on us and our machines. Everybody is hot. Everything is hot.  So let’s think cool, clear water. And to co-opt the signature phrase of the most interesting man […]

Ball House as seen from or rather in a window of the Verre House on Church Street. Historic homes, preserved homes and just expensive homes make this south of Broad neighborhood such a visual delight. Travel & Leisure magazine refers to this area as one of the significant concentrations of wealth in this country. I am sure it […]

Most of us look forward to going back, back to the scene of the crime or back to the old neighborhood, just to see what has changed. We have one acquaintance who relishes a return visit to the back alleys of Key West to see if the same derelict appliances are still there. I would take that ride with him […]

We watch what real photographers do to create interesting images. When an image has issues it is often time to experiment and play as in when realism doesn’t work abandon realism. Add texture overlays. Use weird color filters like the folks from CSI Miami have popularized. Go black & white as the starting point. Dee decided to strip one of […]