I’ve been diligently working on getting my Paris prints gallery in order. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, despite the fact I wasn’t enthusiastic about Paris, the pictures from the trip have shown me one thing, this is an incredibly photogenic city. Going through the photos after the fact, I don’t think…
One of the earliest subjects of my growing love of photography here at home was the old red brick depot in Montezuma. My earliest memories of downtown, the depot was used by the local police department, but there are still plenty of people from here who remember passenger and freight trains stopping here in Montezuma….
One of the highlights of my time in Galway was taking a bus out to Connemara and spending a couple of nights in this tiny lodge/hostel just above Killary Fjord. It definitely would have been a nice place to have a car to really wander, but I got in a good bit of walking and…
Since moving my gallery to my site, I felt like I was missing a few recent photos from home. So I remedied this last night with just a couple of new pictures. This photo is from one of Montezuma’s main streets, Cherry Street. If there’s a crossroads of our downtown, I feel like this qualifies….
I only seem to be blogging changes to my site as of late, and for that I apologize. Hopefully with this last piece of the puzzle now in place, I can get back to working more on the art side of things. You can go ahead and put air quotes around last now, as sooner…
Continuing from my previous post of featured photos in Paris, after an early morning at Sacre Coeur, I made my way to Notre Dame de Paris. Although as you can see there were a lot of long shadows, there was equally awesome light for my visit to Notre dame. The cathedral is a genuine medieval…
It’s precious little surprise to anyone who reads my blog that Paris was not the highlight of my month across the pond last winter. However, I have to give Paris its due, it was an incredibly photogenic city. I don’t think it’s any secret that when taking photos, every picture is not a keeper. In…
Although “plain” photography is my first love, I have also been branching out into photo art the past year or so. I am forever amazed at what a difference layering on different textures can make between a photo’s start and end. This is my most recent piece of photo art. Quite honestly, the beginning photo…
It’s been bubbling in the back of my mind for awhile now to re-do my website. It was, to put it kindly, a Frankenstein behind the scenes. I’d like to think that from the outside looking in, it was rather coherent, but in truth it was a mixture of hand-coded pages, a WordPress blog, and…
I’m really pleased to announce a new book featuring my photography! I think this description (which is part of the introduction), explains it best: This collection of photos has grown over the past few years as my interest in photography grew. Originally, it was just an opportunity to exercise the camera but being home again…
Continued from Photos from Galway – Part One My next stop was the isle of Inis Mór – check out the cute cottage pictured! It’s a sparsely populated island with few visitors in the winter. When the weather was clear, it was incredible to roam. When the rain came, the wind blew through you, and…
Ah, at last I can say I have been through all my photos from around Galway, Ireland. I haven’t added up the days, but if I didn’t spend most of my time here, it was a close tie to the time I spent in Dublin. I’m not sure if the photos capture the vibe in…
One of the first places I found myself on a fairly random stroll around Dublin on day one of my trip was Trinity College. The college was established in the late 16th century but the bulk of the architecture of the current campus is a good deal newer but very inspiring nonetheless. I never burrowed…
I mentioned in a previous post that the star of North Dublin had dimmed somewhat, but the city leaders have also pumped money into revitalizing one of Dublin’s grand avenues. O’Connell Street has the distinction of being one of the widest avenues in Europe. At it’s widest point, it measures some 160 feet (49 m)…
Dublin’s very foundations lie many centuries ago along the River Liffey. Though the Vikings wouldn’t recognize Dublin today, the city still straddles the Liffey. For many years the fashionable addresses in Dublin lay north of the Liffey. For many years after the scene had moved south. And all the old Georgian properties north of the…
One thing about visiting Ireland in the winter, I got to see an awful lot of the places I saw after the sun went down – if it ever, in fact, came up at all. Luckily, I love night photos, and I believe I came away with some good ones in Dublin, the stately capital…
I can truthfully say that I did not spend enough time in Savannah to truly photograph all of the sights, but one of the highlights of my visit remains Savannah’s Cathedral. I heard several tour guides on passing buses compare it to the cathedrals of Europe. Needless to say St. Peter’s and Notre Dame have…
When I went to Savannah for a few days last Fall, my travels turned into a couple of days at the beach and less time in Savannah than I had planned. This only means that I must return to this beautiful area sooner than later. Still the coastal area draws me back as well. The…
Tybee Island is a beautiful little gem off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. Tybee has long been a weekend getaway for citizens of Savannah (it was in fact renamed Savannah Beach for a time). Today, Tybee Island sees vacationers from much further away. One of a chain of barrier islands, Tybee Island has a history…
I only tiptoed into the fringe of Brooklyn on this trip but hope to see more of New York City’s five boroughs one day. These scenes are from the edge of the East River which affords a nice view of Manhattan. This particular picture was actually taken from the Brooklyn Bridge. It represents formerly commercial buildings that…
When I was in New York, I took several bus tours in an effort to get my bearings and see the main sights. Probably given the short time I had, it was too many bus tours but I got the buffet! Anyway, one of my favorite comments of the trip came on a bus. The…
New York has a well earned reputation for the city that never sleeps and the night lights are a must see for anyone visiting. Aside from just walking and enjoying (recommended), there are also open top bus tours of the night lights that are great fun. This is perhaps my favorite photo from the open…
Certainly one of New York City’s most famous bridges is the Brooklyn Bridge which connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. It’s the oldest suspension bridge in the US and met with some misfortune for the builders in the 13 years it took to complete. The bridge was massively over-built which is why it has survived so…
Despite taking so long to finally visit the largest city in my own country, it was well worth the visit! Five nights in New York could barely be described as brushing the surface, but I feel like I got some really wonderful photos out of it and would happily repeat the experience. The skyline in…
What a truly random combination of work, but it’s what I have to discuss right now! As I prepare to prepare (yes, I’m that far behind) for my trip to Ireland, I’m doing my best to finish editing my NYC photos. It’s a fair bet, however, that while I may post them in my gallery…
It took four visits to London to finally make a call on London’s Tate Modern. In my defense, I had visited the British Museum (twice), The National Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, and the Victoria And Albert Museum. I think I may be missing a couple in that list. The point is that London overflows…
This is the second spotlight in my series of photographs of Atlanta Icons, while the first focused on Restaurants, this one will is all the rest of the Atlanta area scenery that I captured in pictures while working on this body of work. In particular, this spotlight looks at Atlanta Architecture. In my opinion, this picture…
Once upon a time, I started a series of photographs of what I thought were Atlanta’s iconic places. I was inspired because I had been traveling and kept coming back with what I though (hoped) were pictures of icons of the cities I visited. And until the recent idea of staycations, it wasn’t so common…
London’s St Paul’s Cathedral is certainly iconic. Many decades, on the images of the great dome standing above the smoke of WWII remain etched in our collective conscious. And that’s likely to remain the case for years to come. Officially the Cathedral Church of Paul the Apostle, the church is at least the 5th St…
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University) is the second oldest university in the English speaking world. It was established in 1209 and consists of 31 colleges dotted around the landscape of modern Cambridge. The Backs is the view of the colleges from the River Cam. The chapel on the right in the photo above…