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I'm a North Carolina photographer that moved to Oregon in 2018.   My interest in photography started with a Christmas present in 1963, a Kodak Instamatic 100.   What thrill for a nine-year-old.   Looking back at those blurry and erratically exposed photographs I still feel the excitement of using it and I still have the camera.   My real aha moment was in the 6th grade.   My teacher brought in an inexpensive plastic darkroom kit one day for a class project.   We spent the whole day taking photographs and developing them; I still have that first...more
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Lighthouses 2016-2018 Collection No. 2

September 30th, 2018

Florida Cape San Blas Lighthouse We have a successful lighthouse moving story with this beacon. Built more than 130 years storms throughout the years battered the lighthouse and associated buildings; Hurricane Isaac eroded the last shoreline in... 

Lighthouse Collection No. 1

September 25th, 2018

I started photographing lighthouses in 2014 on a trip to Scotland and then later that year at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. After going to the NC coast for family vacations as a child I seldom went to the beach as an adult. When I did it would b... 

Covered Bridges

July 31st, 2018

When I planned to move to Oregon, finding covered bridged certainly were not on my mind. When I accidently ran across several I wondered how many were in Oregon. After doing some research I found there were around 600 covered bridges built in Oregon ... 

Crater Lake National Park

July 11th, 2018

Crater Lake National Park The first photograph mentioned in our blog is the first scene we saw. We pulled into the park campground right after a thundershower and found a nice campsite and headed up to the lake as more storms were rolling up the ... 

Yosemite National Park

July 4th, 2018

Yosemite Valley and the whole park is a wonderful and beautiful place. During peak season it can be busy, but off-peak you can gain the experience of enjoying the park without the crowds. We camped in Yosemite in early March while on our two-month mo... 

Yosemite National Park

July 4th, 2018

Yosemite Valley and the whole park is a wonderful and beautiful place. During peak season it can be busy, but off-peak you can gain the experience of enjoying the park without the crowds. We camped in Yosemite in early March while on our two-month mo... 

Cascade Lakes

June 27th, 2018

Cascade Lakes Along the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway you find a lovely string of alpine lakes on the east side of the Cascade Range in the Deschutes National Forest. This beautiful landscape was created by volcanos and carved by glaciers. Views of M... 

Autumn in the Smoky Mountains

June 1st, 2018

The autumn colors were just beginning to show at places in the lower elevations of the Appalachian Mountains on a trip to east Tennessee Photo Dog Jackson and I went on in 2016. On our way back to North Carolina I decided to drive through the Great S...