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The outer banks of North Carolina provide venues for nice family getaways, some right on the beach and close to seafood and BBQ restaurants. We were in Kitty Hawk, the town made famous by the Wright Brothers, and we visited the site of the first flight. Family members logged lots of beach time and they […]
My first trip to Hawaii was a four-week exploration of four major islands—Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai—each evincing a unique character and a different mix of photo opportunities. Oahu is the place for history and big surf, Maui offers a quiet paradise on its eastern coast, Hawaii includes active volcanoes and coffee plantations, and Kauai has […]
I returned recently from a terrific photo workshop on fine art digital printing in Yosemite National Park with noted landscape photographer Charles Cramer (https://www.charlescramer.com//). Charlie was a student of Ansel Adams in the 1970s, and, appropriately, our group met each day in Adams’ own darkroom next to his former dwelling (now the Ansel Adams Gallery) […]
I was in Nashville for the annual meeting of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The place has many interesting antebellum historic sites such as Andrew Jackson’s plantation, and Franklin, the site of a Civil War battle, is nearby. Most people who know me would expect photos of the latter, but Nashville is also home […]
A phalanx of photographers, Wing Young Huie’s Gallery, Minneapolis What a great evening, October 3, in Minneapolis, with 20 photographers displaying their work at Wing Young Huie’s gallery. In addition to the simple excitement of displaying one’s creative work, there was an extra buzz resulting from the impossible crush of the crowd, numbering in the […]
I will be part of a group exhibition, October 3-November 3, at Wing Young Huie’s Gallery in Minneapolis. The group is Wing’s Saturday Salon which has been meeting since early spring. The exhibition will feature several images from each of 23 local photographers, and the range of work includes documentary realism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism. […]
I spent a week in Alaska, May 10-17, with Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic aboard the Sea Lion as it sailed from Juneau to Sitka, via Tracy Arm, Petersberg, Elfin Cove, and Glacier Bay National Park. It was a wonderfully enchanting trip with lots of time exploring iceberg fields aboard zodiacs, hiking the rain forest trails, and […]