Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
This time of year, when the weather stays dry for several days in a row, it means one thing. It’s time for farmers to make hay, and last week most of my neighbors were during just that. These late afternoon scenes were indicative of our area of Randolph County, south of Greensboro.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Portrait study from a recent website redo for a local Triad client.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
My community, Grays Chapel, was traditionally a farming community until just a few years ago. Development has spread into the area and it has become more and more a bedroom community for Greensboro and the Triad. There is still a lot of rural space left, however, and there are many old farms, and with these old operations, there is a world of old farm equipment and vehicles. Time has produced a patina on many of them and they take on the effect of historical sculpture. This old Chevrolet heavy farm truck sits sleeping in my neighbor’s barnyard.
On Saturday morning, almost 400 bicycle riders from all over the state of North Carolina took part in the 10th annual Grays Chapel Lions Club’s Tour de Lions bike ride. The ride is a 75 mile tour through Randolph and Chatham counties in central NC. Money raised through the ride helps support the local club’s programs for the visually impaired. Weather for the event was gorgeous. Though it’s not officially a race, the event attracts serious riders who put on quite a show with pelethons and breakaways, as well as those who are just out for a nice spring morning ride through beautiful countryside. I try to cover the tour each year because my late Father was a life-long member of the Grays Chapel club. For more info on the ride, go to http://www.tourdelions.org/. (There should be a gallery of more images posted soon on the Tour website.)
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
The most interesting things sometimes on old North Carolina farm homeplaces are the many outbuildings. At my Grandfather’s homeplace in Grays Chapel (Randolph County,south of Greensboro) there are several; a smokehouse, a washhouse, a chicken coop, pack house and grainery, besides the regular barn. Each had it’s specific use and each still has it’s own personality.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
As of yesterday, I became part of an apparently growing number of people who have been banned by Facebook for no apparent reason with no prior warning. I have looked through their terms of service and can only figure that I connected with too many people using FB’s own “people you may know” service. I have been using Facebook as an extension of this blog and used their own service of having my blog posts automatically show up as a link on my Facebook page. Will I get my FB page back? Who knows. I have contacted their customer service, but they have not bothered to email an answer back to me. Oh well. I did enjoy the social networking abilities that Facebook seemed to offer, but, I probably spent too much time there anyway. My time is probably better spent shooting and sharing those images here.
UPDATE: As of 5-19-09 and after numerous emails to Facebook, I have had absolutely no response.
UPDATE 5-20-09: No response from Facebook.
UPDATE 5-21-09: Ditto
UPDATE 5-22-09: No Response
UPDATE 5-24-09: Not a word.
UPDATE 5-26-09: Total silence.
UPDATE 5-27-09: Connected to a guy named Joseph (or an automated reply?) who said I couldn’t talk to anyone at that email address and was directed back to the original address from which I have had no reply.
UPDATE 6-01-09: Still no response from Facebook.
UPDATE 6-10-09: Facebook who?
Gardener Lindsey works in my neighbor’s organic garden near Grays Chapel, south of Greensboro. The area is becoming a center of local sustainable agriculture and locally grown food.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Local fresh picked Randolph County strawberries sit in a bowl waiting to become a hot berry cobbler. It’s that time of year.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Casual fashion photograph of a model from a denim shoot.
With the warm weather and Spring rains, the photograph above is indicative of the images I see around my community these days as my neighbors scramble to stay ahead of the growing grass. Odell Routh, owner of Routh Oil Company in Lineberry, North Carolina, south of Greensboro, takes a break Saturday morning from his business to mow the road banks near his station.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
