This link was forwarded to me by another photographer and I think it’s a sad (but accurate) commentary on the state of photography. Sometimes it seams like everyone with a digital camera is calling themselves a professional and many people are confused and end up being disappointed. I hear stories like this everyday. If you…
Category Archives: Journalism
Although it sometimes feels like we never leave the office, Lisa and I have been fortunate to have traveled widely. From Saigon to Venice. So when The Black Rooster Gallery at the historic General Francis Marion Hotel in Marion, Virginia asked us to hang a sampling of our photographs there we were honored. Although you…
Lisa abandoned me in the studio for a couple of days to work on “Brothers”, a feature film produced in the Bristol area. Our friend David Radford was the cinema photographer and he convinced Lisa to skip out on me for a couple of days to help him and director Jerry Sword with this project. …
Every year I shoot a couple of assignments for the Tennessee Department of Tourism. This month my project was to photograph some of the attractions in Upper East Tennessee to update the agency’s files. The photograph above is my son, Matthew, enjoying himself in Bristol Caverns. Below is the new projector in the Bay’s Mountain…
This routine assignment was to document Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s visit to a Washington County Library as part of the statewide focus on Imagination Library Week. That’s the partnership between Dolly Parton and The State of Tennessee to give every young child books to stimulate reading and education. After the photo-op of the Governor reading…
Editorial photograph of M. Zane Myers, Executive Director of the Symphony of the Mountains.
I couldn’t believe it when I got the call to cover Barack Obama’s kickoff of his general election campaign after the democratic nomination in June. At first I thought someone was playing a joke on me, but two days later I was there in the smallish Bristol Virginia High School gymnasium for the speech that…
