Recent faces in front of my lens
Business has been picking up a bit and blogging hasn't. Sometimes life just keeps you busy and before you know it time has moved on down the road. Here are a couple outtakes from a recent shoot involving a church in downtown Raleigh. It was a challenging shoot with hundreds of people around but only a few that could be photographed. The following two people asked me to photograph them.
This woman pleaded with me to take her portrait while I was working. She insisted she needed it for her family who hadn't seen her in years. I took a couple photos and handed her my card but she continued to plead with me to send it for her. She didn't have a lot of possessions in the world so I agreed and gave her a pen to write the address down. I hope it ended up in the right spot.
This young man was very nice. He approached me asking if I needed more subjects. I had pretty much wrapped up the shoot, but I obliged him anyway. A great smile indeed.
The last photo is my nephew Ben. He's a grown man now with the world in front of him. Take it Ben. Take the world in front of you and don't waste any chances for self improvement and adventure.
Lastly, I ordered a new camera today. It should be here in mid-July! You'll have to wait to find out.
my view of the Horne Creek Living Historical Farm
We stumbled across the Horne Creek Living Historical Farm while camping out at Pilot Mountain in the Piedmont of North Carolina. This historical treasure should not be passed up if you are exploring the area. I could have spent hours here making photographs but my time was limited. I enjoyed the farm very much. The staff was very informative and the location immediately had my mind wondering what it was like to live the life of a farmer at the turn of the 20th century.
A gallery featuring the music of Arabesque and my view of the old farm.
Horne Creek Farm Gallery
All photos shot with an Olympus E-P1 with 17mm prime. Processed in Lightroom 2.7 and the show was put together with Soundslides Plus. I processed some of the photos to look like some of the old photos present at the museum while others are pretty much out of camera.
wash basin, Hauser family farm house
An image from a recent visit to the Horne Creek Farm near Pilot Mountain, NC. This beautiful historic site is part of the NC Historic Sites system. I'll be putting together a complete gallery featuring the entire estate very soon, so please check back.
Can you imagine doing your nightly cooking and cleaning in that basin?
Wine photos
Mosaic courtesy of Big Huge Labs. It's interesting to watch the North Carolina wine industry take off and learn the ropes of a very complex industry.
my favorite tripod
is a bicycle. Being able to combine two of my favorite pastimes is a real treat.
Ferrel Road, Chatham County, NC.
old tobacco barns…. disappearing
These old barns are found all over North Carolina but are disappearing every day. It seems every time a new subdivision springs up, a couple old tobacco barns come down.
They are used to hang the fresh picked leaf to dry. One can only imagine the rural country side spotted with these barns full of fresh leaf with their wood stoves smoking away.
I couldn't decide if I liked the monochrome version or the colored one so I posted both.