Category: Journal

There’s something about Virginia and old cars. It started with this view last month out my window as I was driving up to Richmond. Lots of nice cars on that hauler and then… that one. A few days later, I was sitting at a traffic light on my way to get new tires on the Subaru and I found myself sitting behind this guy. And just yesterday, driving down a little country road near my current campground, this wonderful view. I literally did a u-turn to go back and take this shot. How could I not? Do you wonder where…

In between watching the erratic progress of the storm known as Florence and wondering where I was going to have to retreat to next, I became obsessed with the collection of fungi on a tree stump a short stroll from my campsite. The textures are beautiful, and I’m not doing them justice in this post. This is a detail from the biggest one in the photo above. Layers and layers of petals. The form is a treat, too. Wide curves with colors echoing the arc right down to where each petal attaches to the main branch. This bell-shaped petal was…

Here on the Atlantic side of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the shells are rarely in one piece. The winds and tides break them up and the beach is littered with the remnants. As disappointing as it might seem to not see fantastic, whole shells, there’s a whole different thing to look at here: weathered shells. Some of them are so smooth, they look more like lacquered wood than seashells. Others look like fragments of ancient tablets, the hieroglyphics too washed out to read. It is the patterns I love, how many different ones there are from maybe a…

Yes, indeed, my first book of photographs is finally done and I’m very proud of it. Click on the link below for details and a preview of some of the contents. It is available in hardcover, softcover, and ebook (Kindle Fire, iPad, Android, and Mac or PC). Click on the picture below to jump to my storefront on Blurb, where you can preview some of the pages before making your purchase decision. Many thanks to the people who have asked for this book, and encouraged me to put it together and publish it. It was definitely a process: 3 major…