A Few Left in the Folder ... Enjoy.

Self-Portrait.

Hiking, or, you know, WALKING down to the Colorado River, there in the Grand Canyon ... Rule Number One, Baby! LOOK AT THAT LIGHT!

Where a lot of the trips across the Atlantic began, you know, back in the day ... Lisbon, Portugal

Yes, Hudson, North Carolina gets snow! Ahh, once in awhile! And for a SHORT time! Gotta get out there! FAST.

I got word that some Boy Scout Troop would have a Flag Burning Ceremony ... Somehow! Oh! Duh? I was a middle school teacher at one time! Must have been there ... Yeah. So I went ... Best advise I ever got! Ahh ... In school.

"THE" camera that I wanted back when I first got into photography ... It took me YEARS, but then, yeah, I finally "found one", you know, for my collection! Like I said ... YEARS later! But I got it!

The NIKON F3. A classic ...

Ahh, somewhere out West ... You know, in The United States somewhere! White Sands Missile Range, perhaps? I remember stopping there once ... Can't remember THIS shot, but yeah ... Looks like it might be from there! Works for me!

This one, I know! "Somewhere down South", you know, in Charlotte, North Carolina! First regular Home Game of the season (2026)!

"Moses of Morganton" ...

One of my FAVORITE "Brick Art" pieces! Photographed him for years now.

Manteo, NC ... Yeah, pretty sure! You know me! Once "I get "My Image", ahh, I start "playing"! So should YOU! And yes, you can "flip 'em" later, if you want! It's OK. It's ART!

Yet another excuse for me to "Head Out West", ahh, every once in awhile! You never know.

City of Lights! Paris, France.

Looking at my image! Right then, right there, on the back of one of my old, Nikon DSLR cameras, maybe the classic D90s (I owned four of them back in the day)! Just saying ...

But yeah, looking at it now, ahh, the camera looks, ahh, "CROOKED", but the Tree, or image, looks, ahh, GOOD! Weird! But it was "MY" image, so yeah, worked for me! You know, the "real" image that I was going for! The one on the "screen"! CRAZY!

Then there is THIS image ...

Have I ever mentioned, ahh, RULE NUMBER TWO before?

Oh yeah, that's right, ahh, like ahh, ALL THE TIME!

Say it with me ... "GET CLOSER".

Louder!

"GET CLOSER"!

There. Enough said on THAT one!

Just get out there, and find, I mean, MAKE, your images ... YOUR ART!

Anywhere, anytime, and yeah, even any, ahh, 'ol EVERGREEN TREE thingy, that you can find!

Worked for me.

Just do it.

I will continue to keep trying as well.

Best advise I ever got, and/or gave!

ENJOY.

You know I have ... For years (and YEARS!) now!

And that's not even counting when I got my FIRST camera, oh no!

I only count the years since I finally "learned photography", ahh, like, yeah, TEN YEARS later, once I signed up for THE NEW YORK INSTITUTE of PHOTOGRAPHY, you know, after I graduated from college, and really got into photography, ahh, BIG TIME!

Yeah, like TEN years after getting my own camera, on that first motorcycle trip I took out to Arizona on my motorcycle, and my mother gave me that little, Kodak 110 Instamatic camera for a high school graduation present!

That was perfect for a clueless, motorcycle guy, that enjoyed taking pictures while driving around the country!

Point-n-Shoot Magic, Baby!

Loved it!

I had no clue as to what I was doing, but loved every second of it!

That is all it takes! Well, you know, besides some sort of, ahh, CAMERA!

Yeah! PASSION!

First, find your PASSION, then get a camera of some sort, and yeah!

SHOOT, SHOOT, SHOOT!

Or, in other words, yeah!

PLAY! PLAY! PLAY!

Same thing, just different spellings ...

Or, as I learned over in Korea, ahh, back in the day ... "SAME, SAME!

See you OUT THERE!