Last Sunday I went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail at Woody Gap again, except this time I hiked back the other way. I knew there was a tree that sat at the base of a sloped rock that is sometimes covered with water at about the 1/2 mile mark. The tree has a […]

  As discussed in my previous post I was not happy with this image in the standard flat grey of Ilford MGFB or Warmtone papers. So I ordered some selenium and performed some tests. This image has been toned at 1:6 dilution for 15 minutes. The color shift began after 4 minutes in the dark […]

After an early morning hike along the Appalachian Trail I decided to follow Highway 60 up past Suches, GA to find a fishing spot I had heard about. Cooper Creek is stocked with trout and is a favorite spot for campers at the Cooper Creek WMA campground. The river runs along Hwy 60 so no […]

I had visited Preacher Rock on a previous excursion and tried to make some interesting images but yet failed due to haze and glare so common in the Blue Ridge moutains. So I returned early one morning to try again. It was a bit cold at sunrise but the morning unfolded to a nice 50-ish […]

As a personal project I plan to photograph as many waterfalls and scenic hiking areas in North Georgia as I can in the next decade. This area is known in Indian lore as the land of a thousand waterfalls. Fortunately many are preserved in the Chattahoochee National Forest and are fairly easily accessible. Water has […]

Up near Helen Georgia is a great twisty road known as the Richard Russel Scenic Parkway. There are some scenic valley views and it is a heck of a fun drive in a sports car. There are at least two major waterfall destinations. Dukes creek falls, which is a relatively easy hike with wide pathways […]

In September 2015 my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in Las Vegas. However the photographer in me was not going to pass up an opportunity to take some images from the desert and nearby mountains. We took a drive one day up the Mt Charleston Loop. Read the full story and see […]

We all have that one image that sticks in our mind and would like to produce something like it. Many photographers trek to Yosemite to photograph in the same spots as Ansel Adams did. One photographers whose work I love hails from Hilton Head island South Carolina. Ben Ham finds some beautiful marsh and lowland […]

I took my family on a long weekend trip to the Great Smokey Mountains. We stayed in a modern cabin near Pigeon Forge and did all the usual touristy things like visit Dollywood and shop in the towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. We took some scenic drives and the family even allowed me to […]

Getting back into film photography is challenging enough these days. So I decided  to take a darkroom class from the Spruil arts center in Dunwoody. I had to spend the Saturday before my first class getting to know my camera again and decided to head down to Oakland Cemetary in Atlanta. I managed to get […]