May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.
I learned from looking at his [Ansel Adams] work the places he loved the most, and where he spent the most time, was where he did his best work. I learned from him that you have to love what you photograph, and you have to give it time.
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Fed by water from nearby Rock Creek, the water in the 'cement pond' at Rock Creek Park outside of Erwin, TN, is pretty chilly. But on hot summer days, it's a very popular place to be. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) first created a day-use area here in the 1930s, which was expanded in the 1960s to include campsites. The CCC employed boys to build bridges, roads, trails, fire towers and many other projects throughout the country. The young men whose work created the recreational area at Rock Creek stayed in military-style barracks outside the town of Unicoi on Highway 107. They would work eight hour days and were required to send $25 of their $30/month back pay home to their parents.
I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks. 
Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.
A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture doesn’t move, not because the objects in the picture are not in motion. The photographer's mission, should he decide to accept it, is to capture motion with stillness.
Ventured into the High Country of North Carolina last weekend -- and did the tourist thing. Took in the sights on the Blue Ridge Parkway, did some shopping at the Outlet Mall outside of Blowing Rock, then enjoyed the view from Howard's Knob and finally had a delicious dinner at Black Cat Burrito in Boone.
push the contrast, blacks and recovery within Lightroom to pull out some of the detail of these photos of the Appy State campus and Kidd Brewer Stadium. Howard's Knob was named for an early settler to the area, Benjamin Howard, a British loyalist and contemporary of Daniel Boone. In 1979, the world's largest windmill was constructed there, but this experiment was short lived -- it seemed it was also the world's noisiest windmill. The turbine was dismantled in 1983 and the area turned into a park.
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. 
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
--David Russell (b.1942) Scottish musician
Foot bridge over the Doe River within the Roan Mountain State Park.
So let us go forward, quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
I had a great time taking family photos of Charlie and his family a couple weeks ago. He was in town visiting his Aunt Lee and his Grandparents, Bill and Charliece. You can tell immediately upon meeting him that he's a very creative and intelligent boy. Nine years old and yet he was so cooperative, easy going, enthusiastic and fun to work with. Hope you have lots of wonderful memories of your visit to Tennessee, Charlie!
When I started my adventure in photography, I was suddenly introduced to the world around me. I can’t believe I have been so blind for so many years.
