Along The Way… Scenic Shots from Shaker Village & Rt. 169

September 10, 2011 • Leave a Comment

My biggest regret in life will be all the beautiful photos that I recognized and saw, but was too busy to pull over and capture, along the way to the assigments that help me to actually make a living. The older I get though, the more I’m slowing down and taking time to capture the little things that I see along Kentucky’s highways.

These are a few shots that I grabbed after doing a magazine shoot for the November cover of Kentucky Living at Shaker Village Friday Morning, and then brought Rt. 169 cross country back home to Richmond.

Northern Arizona’s Highway 89 Revisited

August 24, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Here are some of the few thousand shots that I captured on our RV trip across America last summer. Highway 89 in Northern Arizona had the prettiest scenery of the whole trip. It didn’t hurt that we were there at sunset either!!!

When the Red Met the Kentucky

August 22, 2011 • Leave a Comment

As a native of Clay City, I’ve seen Red River annually destroy my hometown with its flood waters.

I’ve waded it, swam it, drove through it, drank it, fished it, photographed it, and floated most of it in a john boat with some of the purest muskie fishermen in the world.

I’ve been at its headwaters in Morgan County, but only a few times have I been at its mouth in Clark County. I was on an assignment in Trapp this morning and decided to go down and see what I could find with my camera at the point where Red River empties into the Kentucky River.

It was no Cape Cod, but it was quintessential Red River.

Along The Way… Inside the Boiler

August 21, 2011 • Leave a Comment

An East Kentucky Power Employee welds inside a boiler at Dale Station Power Plant on the Kentucky River at Boonesboro. The temperatures that day were hovering around 105 degrees.

Little Miss Magic Turns 8

August 06, 2011 • Leave a Comment

I’m a few hours late with this. Laura turned 8 years old Saturday. I know this sounds like a cliche, but it’s hard to believe that my little baby girl is growing up so fast. In true Laura fashion she planned her own birthday party, which included calling her grandmothers and telling them what they needed to cook and bring.

Laura and I have decided that Little Miss Magic by Jimmy Buffett is our song. Here are a few lyrics and pictures of my Little Miss Magic over the past 8 years.

Constantly amazed by the blades of the fan on the ceiling
The clever little glances she gives me can’t help but be appealing
She loves to ride into town with the top down
Feel that warm breeze on her gentle skin
She is my next of kin

Chorus:
I see a little more of me everyday
I catch a little more moustache turning gray
Your mother is the only other woman for me
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?

Sometimes I catch her dreamin and wonder where that little mind meanders
Is she strollin along the shore or cruisin oer the broad savannah
I know someday she’ll learn to make up her own rhymes
Someday she’s gonna learn how to fly
Oh that I wont deny

Chorus:
I catch a little more dialogue comin my way
I see those big brown eyes just start to lookin astray
Your mothers still the only other woman for me
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?

Yes she loves to ride into town with the top down
Feel that warm breeze on her gentle skin
She is my next of kin

Constantly amazed by the blades of the fan on the ceiling
Those clever little looks she gives just can’t help but be appealing
I know someday shell learn to make up her own rhymes
One day she’s gonna learn how to fly
That I wont deny

Chorus:
I see a little more of me everyday
I feel a little more moustache turning gray
Your mother’s still the only other woman for me
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?
Little miss magic, just can’t wait to see

Its raining, it’s pouring
Your old man is snoring

It all started here, December 20, 2002

We took Laura to the beach with us the summer before she was born.

August 6, 2003

Big brothers checked out all the equipment before she was born.

I bought her this little pink bear at the hospital gift shop the day she was born, and she still sleeps with it 8 years later.

Helping Mom make a grocery list

Angie gives Laura her first haircut.

She spent Christmas Eve 2003 in the same gown that Natalie wore on her first Christmas in 1973.

Laura shares some of her first birthday cake with me.

Playing war games with her brothers

When we moved to our new house in 2005, she didn’t want to sleep in her new bedroom, and spent the next nine months sleeping on
a recliner in our bedroom.