What I Used to Do With Cameras...

Got my first camera while on my FIRST cross-country motorcycle tour the Summer of 1973. NOT on this tour! This I took, of another tour member, while shooting for MOTORCYCLE TOUR & TRAVEL in Norway. I was riding on another bike as we passed this rider, sitting backwards, with camera on hand ... Years later ... After many, many, miles driving around the world with a camera, or two ...

Walking past me one morning out in Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico. Really ...

Inside the large, ahh, "Fortress", or whatever, over in Granada, Spain. Their lighting, not mine.

Oh! Entering the Old Harbor of Havana, Cuba back in the day ...

I'm going with Moraine Lake, up in Canada ... Yeah, that's what I labelled this image. Sometimes that really helps!

OK, then I labelled this one Modern Art. There you go! And sometimes it doesn't, what can I say?

Blue-Footed Booby, Galapagos Islands, off the Coast of South America. I didn't name them, I just giggle every time I say it! Again, I was a middle-school Special Ed. teacher ...

God's Acre, Old Salem. I didn't name this cemetery either ...

Again, Old Salem, NC. Used to be a "REGULAR" on my college schedule ... Year after year, and over, and over again ...

One of my FAVORITES ... Salisbury, NC. You have to see THIS ONE! It's in a Back Alley!

Can't remember just where out West this is, but yeah! One of my "FAVORITES"! That day anyways!

Loved "MY ELEMENTS"!

I almost remember this one. I'm going with, ahh, the title is of no help! There wasn't one! So much for that theory!

INDIA. Final Answer. I just can't remember where!

North Carolina "PRACTICE" fire ... You know, in North Carolina, someplace East of here, ahh, somewhere!

I'm going with THE EVERGLADES ... Safe bet. Or even better, yeah! FLORIDA.

Galapagos Islands ... We went snorkeling just off that small beach in the lower left ... Nice.

Out on the "FROZEN" Outer Banks, NC. That morning, anyways ... BODIE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE.

I'm going with Cuba ... Yeah, I "sort of" remember this early morning walk ... Good luck with that!

Early morning - Ahh, Outer Banks. NC! No!

Bosque del Apache NWR, New Mexico. Yeah. In the WINTER!

One of the two ... FINAL ANSWER.

My former FAVORITE little, ahh, "Camp Site" thing up above Collettsville, NC. Tilt the camera back on the two "Back Legs" of your tripod while the shutter is opened! Remember, the FRONT leg always "Points to the Subject!

I'm going with, ahh, FALL, somewhere! I do what I can. Used to shoot FALL COLORS for OUR STATE Magazine, year after year ... And SPRING FLOWERS. And The OBX, among others! Every year, ahh, year after year ... It's a "THING". That's why I made it, say it with me: "RULE NUMBER TWO".

The Sandhill Crane, you know, out in New Mexico, ahh, in the WINTER! That GOLDEN EYE! OK, yes, I've see a few James Bond movies in my day! All "part of the overall game"!

You know, the game, ahh, "YOU ARE WHAT YOU PHOTOGRAPH"!

RULE NUMBER ONE.

Come on!

Look at that Light!

EARLY or LATE. Up to YOU, oh, and the BIRDS, of course!

The Everglades. Some cute, little, "Hawk" of some kind, I think ... Hey! I just PUSH THE BUTTON!

I'm having a "flashback" to Havana, Cuba ... Yeah, pretty sure.

This one, I know ... DACAHU, Germany. World War Two Concentration Camp Memorial.

I'm going with OLD SALEM. yeah, "looks like it" ... To me, anyways!

THIS, I'm sure of! Say it with me ... OLD SALEM!

Why I drove out to New Mexico on my Christmas Breaks all those years ... The BLAST OFF!

Yes, I'll say it again ... MY FAVORITE!

Ahh, yeah! Speaking of which, yeah, another of my All-Time FAVORITE places in the world, no question ... The SOUTHERN OCEAN!

"You are what you photograph" ... Henri-Cartier Bresson

"And where you go" ... David H. Hessell ("My Two Cents")

The two go hand in hand.

Enjoy YOUR Journey.