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Typically, rainy season in Atlanta lasts from September through April.   During those months, it rains at least once per week, and those are good, drenching rains that last for hours.   Many, if not most, of these rains originate in the Gulf and move north and east.  From MayContinue Reading

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The interplay of light and shadows gives context and meaning to an image.  This table sits by a window that allows direct sunlight only for a few months, each spring and fall.    I took this image last fall. Periodically, I look at it admiringly, then move on to somethingContinue Reading

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It’s been a month since I began working on the garden, and there is still a lot to do.   After a cold winter, it warmed up much faster than expected, with 80-degree days early on.   As a result, I’m fighting weeds much earlier than usual.  VMLP photography projectsContinue Reading

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Usually, I prefer to photograph images with significant shadows in black and white.   Shadows seem to add a sense of gravitas or at least a specific mood to an image.   Here, I chose to shoot in color because of the vibrancy of the plumage, the warmth of theContinue Reading

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The Decatur Box project is another art initiative born of a collaboration between artist Larry Holland and the Decatur Arts Alliance.  The project turns traffic signal utility boxes into public art instead of dull green/grey metal eyesores. Last December, with a Minolta AF-C in hand loaded with Fuji 200, IContinue Reading

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    The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. (1-4) —Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard     Thomas Gray    Since reading this poemContinue Reading

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Every spring brings new ideas and new challenges.    This winter has been the coldest I can recall for the garden.   Usually, the daylilies poke their heads above ground by late January.   However, this year, I was still watching for them until early March.   The Gerber daisies,Continue Reading

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Walking around Decatur, I spotted this deer painted on a restaurant wall.   There is nothing special about the image,  but it did remind me of the first trip my wife and I made to France. We spent three days in Blois (pronounced bool-wah), a small town south of ParisContinue Reading

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This wall is the side of a bank (maybe…I can’t recall).   The walkway leads to parking.  It reminds me of an aquarium or something sea-related.  After debating whether to photograph it, I finally decided I liked the colors too much not to.Continue Reading

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Red-tailed hawks watched over our backyard for years.   Once, there were two large pecan trees close by; the taller tree, in my neighbor’s yard, was 60+ feet. A similar tree stood next to our house, so close that it was encroaching on the foundation and had to be removed. Continue Reading