Friday, August 14, 2009

Tennessee Barn Photography: A Horse of Course!

This is one of those "right place, right time" photos. Last fall I was out in Estill Springs, Tennessee, at a friend's barn, taking her senior portraits. It was such a beautiful afternoon, just before Thanksgiving. As you can see in the photograph, the fall sunlight was a yummy golden warm -- perfect for pictures.

Her horse was just fantastic, and I couldn't resist taking a few "portraits" of him too. For this shot, he cheesed for the camera, and "A Horse of Course!" was born.

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Sewanee, Tennessee Photography: Less Traveled

"Less Traveled" was taken in Sewanee, Tennessee, on the old railroad bed known as the Mountain Goat Trail. On a cold February afternoon, one of my dear friends took me down the trail to see this beautiful scenery. As I looked back, I saw the freshly laid tire tracks that the truck left behind, trailing off around the bend.

I named this piece "Less Traveled" because it reminds me of the Robert Frost poem, "The Road Not Taken."

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Italy / Tuscany Photography: Vin di Toscana


I took "Vin di Toscana" while visiting Montepulciano, in the province of Siena, Tuscany Italy. I loved the bottles of wine, lined up at attention.

When I first saw the color rendering of this photo, I passed right over it. It was only on a second, or maybe third, look that I was able to envision it in black and white, which I immediately came to love!

It has since become one of my most often requested pieces.

To purchase this piece or one of my others, please visit my fine art site. Or, view some of my other photos from Tuscany, Italy.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Tennessee Barn Photography: Hanging Around




Here is another of my newer photos. "Hanging Around" was taken at Cannonsburgh Village in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

One of my challenges to myself is to take more photos that capture the history and essence of Middle Tennessee. I loved the grouping of the three old wheels against the texture of the wooden barn, as well as the contrast of the round shape of the wheels against the vertical stripes of the barn. I overlayed the photo with a sepia tint to give it a little bit of an antique feel.

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