Pearl Fryar’s Topiary Garden

Posted on February 22, 2020 By Mary Presson Roberts

“One of my main objectives was to have something different than everyone else. Not necessarily better, but different, unique.” – Pearl Fryar

One of the things I enjoy most is finding people who are living creative lives. A creative life was evident everywhere I looked yesterday while visiting the Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden, located in Bishopville, South Carolina. This was not my first visit to […]

Rocks of Michigan

Posted on February 8, 2020 By Mary Presson Roberts

“The whole world is, to me, very much “alive” – all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things going on – within them....

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Morning Walk

Posted on January 25, 2020 By Mary Presson Roberts

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
― Henry David Thoreau

I was never much of a morning person before I became a photographer. Early on, I learned that in landscape photography, early morning light and late afternoon light are often...

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One in a Million

Posted on January 11, 2020 By Mary Presson Roberts

“You’re wonderful. Unique. I love you.”
― Truman Capote

It just doesn’t feel like summer until I spend time in a sunflower field. Friday was my first trip to spend time in the fields.

I talked a great friend and fellow photographer into...

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Exploring Markets and Found Art in Jerusalem

Posted on December 29, 2019 By Mary Presson Roberts

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

In June, I was able to go on the trip of a lifetime to visit my lifelong friend, Larry. Larry is currently living in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Getting Lost in Old Salem

Posted on December 14, 2019 By Mary Presson Roberts

“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”
― Dorothea Lange

After leaving the Dorothea Lange exhibit and saying goodbye to my friends who experienced it with...

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The Connector

Posted on November 16, 2019 By Jamie Peters

From Level 73 of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in the Sundial restaurant.

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Grandfather Mountain Highland Games

Posted on November 2, 2019 By Mary Presson Roberts

“The happiest lot on earth is to be born a Scotchman. ”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

Grandfather Mountain has become a very special place for me. I have attended Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinics and many Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekends since becoming a photographer. ...

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Petra

Posted on October 19, 2019 By Mary Presson Roberts

“Petra is one of the densest palimpsests of human history. Layer upon layer of archaeological remains provide evidence of a fascinating story that stretches back for thousands of years. It is a masterpiece of human achievement, an aesthetic and architectural marvel, and the source...

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