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PUBLISHED: Blue Ridge Travel Guide (2015)
Publication: The Blue Ridge Travel Guide Issue: 2015 For several years my travels around Western North Carolina have brought me into contact with The Blue Ridge Travel Guide, a hard-bound publication placed within hotel rooms and rental homes around the area. ...
PUBLISHED: Our State Magazine March 2015
Publication: Our State: Down Home in North Carolina Issue: March 2015, Amazing Place, Volume 82, Number 10 Story: Photo Essay: Amazing Place (p.13), Jan DeBlieu's Hatteras Island by Jan DeBlieu (p.88-89), and Now, Voyager by Scott Huler (p.142-143) STORY ONE: Jan...
PUBLISHED: National Park Service FY 2013 Annual Report
Publication: National Park Service Denver Service Center FY 2013 Annual Report Issue: Fiscal Year 2013 (Cover Image) It was pretty neat to be contacted by the National Park Service regarding a photograph. Granted, there was no remuneration involved. However, so...
PUBLISHED: Northern Virginia Magazine September 2014
Magazine: Northern Virginia Issue: September 2014, Weekend Getaways Story: Weekend Getaways by Tracey Meloni and Renee Sklarew, Charleston (p.46) Weekend Getaways, an article written by Tracey Meloni and Renee Sklarew, details six locations for weekend adventures...
PUBLISHED: Smoky Mountain Living August / September 2014
Magazine: Smoky Mountain Living Issue: August / September 2014, The Lay of the Land, Volume 14, Issue 4 Story: Artists of Dusk & Dawn by Anna Oakes (Cover + p.39, 41) From a content standpoint, this opportunity with Smoky Mountain Living Magazine in August /...
PUBLISHED: Outdoor Photographer July 2014
Magazine: Ourdoor Photographer Issue: July 2014, Max Megapixels, Volume 30, Number 6 Story: Assignments, Motivation Assignment Winner (p.42) While tradition would say that you should fake it until you make it, I was rather excited and surprised when an editor at...
PUBLISHED: Backpacker Magazine June 2014
Magazine - Backpacker: The Outdoors at Your Doorstep Issue: June 2014, 2014 National Parks Guide, Volume 42, Issue 313, Number 5 Story: The Experience: More is Better. Long Distance Hiking by Casey Lyons (p.012) It was barely a thought when I started doing this...
PUBLISHED: Our State Magazine June 2014
Magazine - Our State: Down Home in North Carolina Issue: June 2014, The Dairy Issue, Volume 82, Number 1 Story: Carolina Classic: Carolina Moon (p.24-25) Every month Our State Magazine runs a front feature on a piece of Carolina art, food, music, people or...
PUBLISHED: Our State Magazine April 2014
Magazine - Our State: Down Home in North Carolina Issue: April 2014, Appalachian Spring, Volume 81, Number 11 Story: 10 Poems Every North Carolinian Should Read, #6 The Men Who Raised the Dead by Ron Rash One of the neatest things that can happen with publishing...
PUBLISHED: Our State Magazine March 2014
Magazine - Our State: Down Home in North Carolina Issue: March 2014, The Movie Issue, Volume 81, Number 10 Story: Drawn to the Light by Lane DeGregory (p.74-75) A story centered around the restoration of Bodie Island Lighthouse, an historic structure along the...
PUBLISHED: WNC Magazine January / February 2014
Magazine - WNC: Mountain Living in Western North Carolina Issue: January / February 2014, Volume 8, Number 1 Story: VISTAS Feature Image (p.32-33) WNC Magazine was one of the first to pay attention to my photography. For years we almost hooked up for Vistas...
PUBLISHED: Our State Magazine December 2013
Magazine - Our State: Down Home in North Carolina Issue: December 2013, Volume 81, Number 7 Story: A Prayer For North Carolina (p.76) My first official publishing opportunity for commission, this was a really exciting opportunity. Our State Magazine utilized a...
BOOK REVIEW: Stand Up That Mountain
Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness along the Appalachian Trail Jay Erskine Leutze | Simon & Schuster, 2012 Stand Up That Mountain, written by Jay Leutze, is about the legal battle to stop a gravel mine, known...
Year in Review – 14 for 2014
Here it is, 2014 boiled down to fourteen photographs. You would think that reducing a year into fourteen photographs would be difficult because that's too few to represent such a vast amount of time. In reality, it was really difficult to choose fourteen photographs...
Giving Thanks – Living the Dream
“I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” That was the number one cited regret from folks who were at the end of their life looking back reflectively at what had and hadn’t been according to a blog post I stumbled...