“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”
― Neil Gaiman
Each year, at this time, I feel compelled to take my camera...
“Photographic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.” ― George Barr I just finished my thirty-first year teaching young children in the public schools of the Carolinas. The past twenty-six years have been spent teaching at the same school located in Charlotte, NC. Since I am in the...
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
-John Muir
I have always loved this quote from John Muir. There is a place that seems to call to me, especially in the springtime. That place is not the mountains. The place that calls to me time and time again is
“To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
― Elliot Erwitt
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure to present to the CNPA Upstate group in Greenville, SC. ...
“There is no city on Earth quite like Charleston. From the time I first came there in 1961, it’s held me in its enchanter’s power, the wordless articulation of its singularity, its withheld and magical beauty. Wandering through its streets can be dreamlike and otherworldly, its alleyways and shortcuts both fragrant and mysterious, yet...
“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein
This week’s composite started with a gift that I received from my lifelong friend, Dena Roten. Dena and I have been friends ever since the day I got locked out of my house when I was ten years old. ...
“The geometry of a peacock’s tail is more aerial: “The eyes in a peacock’s spread tail are situated at the intersecting point of a double cluster of spirals, that are apparently Archimedean spirals.”
― Gaston Bachelard
It just doesn’t feel like springtime to me until I get a chance to visit Magnolia Plantation...
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of my goals for my summer break is to begin using gear that I have purchased over the years that I have not taken the time to truly learn how to use. The first items I...
