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 […]

During the field-trip with NGLFP to Westview Cemetery in Atlanta,  all three of us converged on a large monument for Stephen Andrew Ryan upon which sits a mesmerizing mourner. The mourner leans at the base of a rough hewn cross and stone ivy is growing up the sides of the base and cross. Her stare and features […]

Today’s Sunday Morning Adventure took me to up to Mount Airy, Georgia (not where they filmed Andy Griffith’s Mayberry) to NancyTown Creek Falls. I left the house around 6:00 AM and stopped for gas and coffee. Then headed north on mostly 4 lane highways to get to Mount Airy. The sky was striped with orange […]

The print from my first visit to High Shoals Falls near Hiawasse. See the Sunday Morning Adventures article for the details of the trip.   Technical: 4×5 FP4+, EI 100, f32.5, 3seconds, 90mm Angulon. EV range 7.4-12.5 placed shadows on zone III. Negative developed in dilute Pyrocat HD minimal agitation for 24:30 minutes Printed on […]

I returned a second time to high shoals falls area to shoot with fellow NGLFP member Bryan G. The hike was about the same but not as hot as the first time I visited. We both shot for about 3 hours before the sun became too bright to work any longer.  Here are the images […]

This weeks Sunday Morning Adventure (SMA) was a trip to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park with fellow NGLFP member Gary Beasley. Kennesaw mountain and its surrounding fields and hills is the site of a major civil war battle that held off the advancing Union army in the summer of 1864. Today it is a small national […]

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 […]

Shortly after I made the Frogtown Creek II image I wandered downstream to where I had previously shot Frogtown Creek I. But I was on the other side of the creek and had to work my way down the bank, over a fallen tree and under a rather gnarly vine to perch on a narrow […]

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 […]