Author: Jim
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Charred
Huntsville, Alabama. May 2025.
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A Damp Day in Yorkshire
In June I had the opportunity to spend a week in Yorkshire Dales National Park, which included joining a Light & Land photography tour led by Charlie Waite. (Next year’s tour is already on the schedule, if this series of posts convinces you to sign up.) When I visited York last November, I had no…
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Across Eighteen Visits
This past spring I spent 8 weeks living in Madison, Alabama. Early in our stay, we discovered the Bradford Creek Greenway, and it became our favored walking spot. My Lightroom catalog has images from eighteen different dates, and I am sure there were a few other times when I either didn’t have my camera or…
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Lush
Madison, Alabama. May 2025.
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Diversion
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain. February 2023.
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An Anamorphic Outing
Decades ago I had copies of The Joy of Photography and More Joy of Photography, both published by the Eastman Kodak company. One of those two books—I suspect it was the latter—had a spread about photographing with an anamorphic lens. I remember a picture of soccer players that looked like models for African folk art…
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Shading
Tucson, Arizona. April 2025.
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Gulf State Park
Gulf State Park, which figured prominently in last week’s post, had more on offer than birds. In addition to an abundance of wide paths that easily accommodated walkers and bikers both, there were some nice boardwalks that gave a slightly elevated perspective. The image of ferns, above, definitely benefited from this. I know that ferns…
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Green Frog
Madison, Alabama. April 2025.
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Alabama Gulf Coast Birds
In our efforts to explore as much of Alabama as we could manage during our ten weeks there, we spent a weekend down on the gulf coast. Given that it was still only April, it was very humid—not a comfortable place in the summer, to be sure, but that can be said for all of…