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Kodak Gold 200 on My Graflex Speed Graphic
My photography got started in film. I started shooting in the 90’s with a Nikon N70, and then quickly moved to a Nikon N90s, but regardless of the camera, it was all film based back then. I can remember at the time, when digital first started making strides into photography, I couldn’t get a digital…
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Monochrome Monday Stadium Version
Today’s Monochrome Monday photo features a stadium edition. This post is from my ongoing weekly series set of posts, today’s of course being Monday. Jordan-Hare Stadium is probably my most photographed subject in black and white—so much so that my first photo book was entirely dedicated to it (although not all in black and white).…
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An Epic Week in the Garden
Today I’m finally bringing back my weekly series called Friday Feet after an epic week of work in the garden. I haven’t done a Friday Feet post in a while. And when I mean a while, I mean the last one was in 2013, so apparently I took a 12 year break. I use to…
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Monochrome Monday From Atlanta’s ATL
I haven’t done much monochrome lately. It is a form of photography that I really love, and find it one of the most difficult to master. I have read countless books on the topic, the shading, dodge and burn, all from back in the film days, and it is all still relevant today. It just…
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Early Morning Garden Photo Walk
It is so hot outside right now that we can’t really work in the garden past about 9:30am or so. Today I grabbed my camera on my way to pull weeds at our roadside Iris beds. I wanted to take some photos of the only remaining blooms that can survive in this kind of relentless…
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Hot Humid Sticky Sunrise
I mentioned last week I updated and refreshed my Weekly Series posts for my website, this is one of the “new” updates called Wordless Wednesday. Since this is the first post in this new “series” it’s more of a mostly-Wordless Wednesday, which is a photo, or a few related photos, with just three things: a…
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Flowers and a Manual Nikon 55mm AI-s Macro Lens
This weekend, I updated my Weekly Series, adding a landing page for easier navigation. Today’s Macro Monday showcases some of the first images I’ve taken with the old manual focus Nikon 55mm AI-s macro lens. It is a well built inexpensive macro lens to add to your photography.
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Fireworks Photography Tips for the 4th of July
Tomorrow is, of course, the 4th of July here in the United States. I’m using this update as my Throwback Thursday post to share some fireworks photos I took at the Auburn fireworks display a few years ago. For those outside the U.S., this day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress…
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Summer Flowers and Fascinating People
Do you ever look at photos long after the fact and think about how beautiful and calm life looks (looked) in those photos? Of course they always seem to look calmer than life currently looks present day. Even if I took the image yesterday. This is what I often think about when I look at…
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The South’s Rarest Wildflower the Cahaba Lily
The Cahaba Lily is a rare and stunning native wildflower found in Southeastern rivers. Discover its beauty, habitat, and how I captured these once-a-year blooms through photography in our Southern garden.
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