You know, up-close and personal. You know me, and my RULE NUMBER TWO. I really dis shoot that way before I came up with the whole "Rule Thing". Yeah, really, that is how they became "MY RULES", you know, from all the rules I learned from! You know, The New York Institute of Photography, and from all those columns, and articles in POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY magazine, and any book I could find, like anywhere, that dealt with photography! Anything, and everything. And yeah, taking a bu

Yeah! I guess I used hot (really HOT!) water when developing this B/W film back at the college, and yeah, when I saw the film after I was done, something looked, you know, a wee-bit odd. But it wasn't until I got it into the darkroom to print some shots, yeah! Then I KNEW I goofed up! But then, while printing some of the shots, it "hit me"! Oh yeah, like, I then knew I "GOOFED UP BIG TIME"! The film was really "messed up"! I had never seen this before ... Or since. And yeah,

Back in 1985, after a couple of years "helping out" with a couple of Public Affairs Offices as a volunteer photographer/writer on a few Army bases where my former wife was stationed, yeah, I was actually hired as a photographer at the Training, Audiovisual, Support Center (T.A.S.C.) over in Bremerhaven, Germany. Yeah, I took pictures of people in the Army ... We had a Studio, and a Darkroom, and yeah, I had a riot! Now true, I did get my first camera, a Kodak 110 Instamatic,

Yeah ... Get there EARLY, find your "SPOT", relax, take a few "test shots", you know, just to calm you down a bit ... Then, yeah, AFTER you caught a great sunset, OK ... Relax, sit back, and WAIT for the "REAL" show to begin! Yeah ... Wait. Wait. Wait ... And wait some more ... What? Usually around twenty ... Maybe thirty minutes AFTER the sunset ... Yeah. That should give you time to, you know, get over the GIGGLES from what you just experienced! I don't know about you, but

Yes, a few years back (I try to forget!), you know, after some surgery of some kind, yeah, I got into "PLAYING WITH PUZZLES" as a way to pretend like i was actually achieving something, you know, like strengthening my mind to some degree ... Or, you know, something like that! But yeah, since I have been to "MUNCHEN", ahh, that German, for, you know ...But yeah, I tried to get down there as often as I could. Closer to the mountains! Duh? In fact, I even remember driving down t

Yes, this was one of my "Regular Stops" each semester at the college! FORT DEFIANCE, you know, just outside of Lenoir, while "heading up the mountain" on 321 towards Boone! I loved "getting out there" with my cameras ... There was ALWAYS something, and yes, someone, that I could find for an image ... ALWAYS! But, that said, I do believe this was the ONLY time I came across this man ... And this MOMENT! Ever. Oh yeah, it must have been with my old, Saturday Class, and yeah, th

Here is a bird I never saw growing up in Northern New York! Yeah, an albatross And yes, it has been awhile, and I know I have watched that Art Wolfe DVD so many times, so yeah, looking at this image, I'm going out and a limb here, and say this is a Black-browed albatross, but yeah, I'm no expert even if I sound like I know what I'm talking about! Plus, I just read that yeah, it is the most common albatross down there, so yeah ... I'm sticking with it! But yeah, I'll leave it

On a motorcycle, that is! Oh yeah ... I drove a motorcycle in all FIFTY states! Even Hawaii. But for that one, yeah, I had to actually rent a 500cc Honda road bike, in Honolulu, for a day, as I drove around the island of Oahu, while on my 50th Birthday "AROUND THE WORLD in 64 DAYS" tour thingy! What a riot that was! Yeah, all FIFTY states by my FIFTY summer, right here on this planet! And all on a motorcycle! I got my motorcycle license (A YEAR before my car license) back w

Say it with me ... "India"! Me "playing", after I got home from Russia, like, years ago! Inside a barn, over in Ireland Behind The Visitor's Center, out there on The Outer Banks, NC South Mountain State Park, NC Inside a Yarn Factory Museum (or whatever!), up in Quebec, Canada Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska At a cemetery, over in Ankor Wat, Cambodia Holding a sunflower, out in some Texas field, you know, someplace! Ab

That's right, as I mentioned a few days ago, during one of my school, and college "Christmas Break" things one year, I took a little trip down to "The End of the Earth" to visit one of the greatest places there is on this Earth, period. ANTARCTICA. These images are from that first trip down there back in 2011 ... While I was still teaching. My second trip down there, came later, in 2017, AFTER I retired, but after having watched all those Art Wolfe Photography DVDs the last c

Ahh, the Old Middle School Dances! Went to a lot of them over the years ... But yeah, this one was DIFFERENT! I checked, it was back in 2007, from what I can tell (DATA!), and yeah, if I remember correctly (no guarantee there!), for some reason I believe it was an Eighth Grade Dance, you know, just for the eight graders! You know, if we ever had such a thing! I've slept since then ... And, well, YOU KNOW! It has been a LONG time! But, anywho ... Yes! I had my "real" camera wi

Yeah, I went to a LOT of 8th Grade dances at Granite Falls Middle School back in the day, but yeah, THIS one was just a wee-bit...

Well, that is what we called it anyways! Yeah, Ian, the oldest son of our School Media Center Coordinator , or you know, our School Librarian, Keith Dudley, who just so happened to live on the same street that had a "Gate Entrance", just down the road from their house, and yeah! He was how I learned about the TRAIL that they have back by the "Tater Hole", or you know, Lake Hickory! It's a GREAT trail, you know, for any local Middle School track, and cross-country "Running Clu

Yeah, THAT storm! At THAT gym, at that school dance, down there in THAT Gym! Yeah, at GFMS! You know, Granite Falls Middle School, back in the day! And yes, I'm going with 25 Apr 09, because yeah, that's what the DATA tells me, and no, I've got nothing better, so yeah, that works for me! Sounds possible! And believable, I was teaching back then, but yeah, I just knew it was a LONG time ago! And yes, we had a LOT of dances in the gym over the years! And maybe even a storm once

See what I mean? I mean, yeah, I LOVE this image, but you know me! THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING! And trust me, these aren't the only THREE...

And yeah, it's one of, if not THE best place, to find yourself swimming among the Stingrays! You know, if you happen to have a waterproof...

Somehow, I don't know how, but yeah, I came across this OLD image of mine from my old website ... Which I thought was removed a LONG time...

Patagonia's largest, and most famous glacier, is Perito Moreno Glacier. And yes, you can get very close to it, no problem ... Even take a...

LOOK AT THE LIGHT. Get up early and stay out late! That simple (I wish!). Is it HARD light (dark shadows) or SOFT light (no shadows)? Is...