Category: Weekly Blog
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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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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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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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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…
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Bama Back Roads
I am inordinately fond of road trips, particularly ones that happen on two-lane roads. They are such a great way to experience the country. This is especially true as a photographer because you have the freedom to pull over for interesting subjects. The elaborate water tower above was actually along Interstate 65, but close enough…
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A Dark Walk in A Desert Park
During our long stay in Alabama, I did take a short trip to my former haunts in Tucson, Arizona, and was able to go on a nice hike through Catalina State Park. Catalina State Park is a wonderful place that sits below the stunning Pusch Ridge. It was a great day for photography with dramatic…
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Pollination
There are a fair number of swamps and swampy areas in the Huntsville area. In addition to the Beaver Dam Boardwalk in the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, featured a few weeks ago, we went to a place called Hays Nature Preserve. It didn’t turn out to be one of our favorite places to walk—primarily because…
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Twickenham Columns
The Twickenham neighborhood in Huntsville, Alabama, is very close to downtown Huntsville. The columns above are not in that neighborhood, per se, but are close enough that we passed them on the same walk. Huntsville isn’t a particularly large city (population 225,000) but, even so, that there can be so many spectacular homes in its…
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Decatur Decay
In addition to the “prettier” pictures of Decatur that I shared last week, I found plenty of more worn and weathered tidbits, too. I love the colors in the image above: the blue-green oxidized copper goes really well with the blue-gray asphalt roof tiles. There’s a lot of nice textures, too, including a fine wire…