Welcome to Friday. A weekend! Gratitude for another day. The simple beauty of dawn drifting towards the fullness of the day, weather becoming whatever it will. The road beckons, cares and worries in the rearview mirror. Miles away. There are many opportunities in the Smoky Mountains to let the road carry you away. Even some…
It’s not always about the Smoky Mountains, and sometimes I get miles away also. This week we’re away on a beach trip to South Carolina. While we’re away, you can still stop in to see the complete display of Smoky Mountains Photography at the William Britten Gallery on Glades Rd. The Gallery will be open several…
Today we are miles away in Maine, down at the bottom of the Pemaquid Peninsula. I’ve been to the lighthouse at Pemaquid Point many times. In fact, for many years lighthouses were my special interest in photography. Way back in 1993 I launched Lighthouse Getaway, which was among the first 25,000 websites in existence on…
Several months ago I wrote a little thing about creating zen rock stacks near my home in the Smoky Mountains. There seems to be an almost universal relationship between man and rocks that is reflected in the creation of these zen stacks. Recently I traveled all the way up to the coast of Maine, to…
The cave pictured here is Sea Anemone Cave near Acadia National Park, in Maine. The photo below was taken by me in 1974, a 25-year-old camper with a brand new twin-lens Mamiya C330 medium format camera that I used for black and white landscapes. An Ansel Adams disciple all the way! I traveled to Acadia…
Today’s miles away pictures are from a recent trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. Bar Harbor is to Acadia National Park what Gatlinburg is to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A tourist town on the edge of great beauty. In the picture above you can see the little village nestled against the harbor. See the…
This day in 1977 Elvis Presely died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, TN. Just down the road from Gatlinburg, in Pigeon Forge, the memories live on. It’s a good show there, and never ceases to amaze me how Elvis had so much charisma that over 30 years after his death a man pretending to…
Where does a Smoky Mountain resident go to get miles away? To the beach! The picture above is one of those soft pastel dawns near the ocean. You can almost feel the moist salt breeze. In the distance is the Myrtle Beach skyline, taken from my 11th floor condo balcony, 10 miles to the south…
Spent a week at the beach, just south of Myrtle Beach in Garden City Beach, SC. My son Justin and I had a working getaway … me taking stock images most days, while he set up a water’s edge office for telecommuting. Keep an eye out for some of the beach images coming soon ……
We traveled to flood-stricken Nashville, TN this past weekend to attend the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (TACA) outdoor fair. The fair is nestled in Centennial Park every May, beneath the view of an 1897 full-scale replica of the Parthenon. Most of the art fairs on my schedule are in the Convention Center in Gatlinburg,…
Last weekend Sarah and I traveled to Nashville for a birthday/anniversary/visit grand-daughter trip. Friday night we headed down to the Ryman Auditorium, original home of the Grand Ole Opry. Wow, they were all old geezers! But then, come to think of it … I’m a geezer and so are most of my favorite musicians. Riders…
I live in Gatlinburg TN, on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains. The Smokies are a very spiritual place, and I attempt to capture some of that spirit in each of my photographs.
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