As part of my road trip with my son we stopped at a Washington Oaks Gardens in Palm Coast Florida on our way to Epcot. It was here I discovered the backing glass on my 4×5 was broken but the ground glass was still intact. I only had time for a couple of shots and […]

Not only rivers and waterfalls capture my attention, but stumps and fallen trees seem to be a recurring theme.  On one of my Sunday Morning Adventures to Amicalola I took the opposite path from Edge of the World to check on a fishing spot after a heavy rain. I noticed this huge stump was beached […]

On a warm summer morning during one of my Sunday Adventures to the mountains I stood ankle deep in a creek trying to capture the stillness of rocks and fluidity of water. At one point I slipped on a wet rock and could swear I heard someone exude a muffled snicker at my clumsiness. I […]

Amicalola – The Cherokee word for Raging water. The falls at Amicalola state park are the unofficial start of the Appalachian Trail with a 10 mile hike to Springer Mountain. It was the last day of the first quarter of 2018 and I had not shot anything in a while. The weather finally warmed enough […]

The Desoto Falls campground and trail has become one of my favorite spots lately. Frogtown creek at the campground level is a rock filled creek with plenty of composition opportunities. The 3/4 mile hike to Upper Desoto Falls is relatively easy and has a good viewing platform. The sound of the rushing water is very […]

After my toning experiments I decided to split tone the Frogtown Creek II image. I think I went a little too far with bleaching so turned the whole image brownish rather than just warming the faintest highlights. But I do like the results and it is different than the untoned version. The print was a […]

Over the last few weeks I have been trying my hand at Toning with Thiourea (Sepia) and Selenium on different papers. This thanksgiving day weekend gave me some extra time to try Split Toning with both. And as luck would have it my mentor Steve Sherman put out a video on his toning technique along […]

I found a couple of negatives I shot 2 years ago stashed in a box of rejects. I may have initially thought these negatives too contrasty or improperly processed. However in the darkroom I was able to pull out the details using split grade printing and a bit more skill than I had in the […]

Details of the Appalachian Trail – Rocks and Roots. The ability for roots of trees to take hold in rock crevices has always amazed me. This particular pair of trees did so with tremendous style, creating a nearly abstract artwork within the rock cliff. The colors of the tree roots is almost the same as […]

Details of the Appalachian Trail – Staircase on Blood Mountain. I should call this the Devil’s staircase because it took the wind out of me and several other hikers to get up it. It is only about a 50 foot rise in elevation but is merely the first in a series of steep inclines and […]