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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...
From the Field: Western North Carolina Mountains
Destination: Western North Carolina Mountains Dates: October 11-13 & 15-17 My annual autumn trek to North Carolina was two-part this season, with the first part being a three day weekend with my mother (also an avid photographer), and the second part being a more...
Craft Thoughts: Meaningful Photography
I received my November copy of Outdoor Photographer Magazine today and read a very good article by author and photographer, Guy Tal (The Concept: How to Have a Purpose and Make a Plan), on the difference between taking a photograph OF something versus taking a...
From the Field: Ricketts Glen State Park Autumn 2014
Destination: Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania Dates: October 2-4, 2014 The autumn color season began for me in Pennsylvania, as it has for the past couple of years. Why Pennsylvania? My mother has roots there and thus, I have roots there: memories of visiting my...
From the Field: Dolly Sods Wilderness Area Autumn 2014
Destination: Dolly Sods Wilderness Area / Bear Rocks Preserve, West Virginia Dates: October 6-7, 2014 It’s raining. That’s been the going fashion for my travels thus far this autumn season. I didn’t mind so much on my most recent trip to Ricketts Glen State Park in...