Dan Routh Photography

Baling Hay

They say you have to make hay when the sun shines. Here in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, it hasn’t shone much in the past couple of weeks. It did today, and my neighbor Mark Sexton was in the field hard at work.

37 Knucklehead

Motorcycle

1937 Harley Davidson Knucklehead, antique rally, Denton, North Carolina.

Lanier’s Store

Portraits

I was down in the New Hope area of Randolph County, North Carolina the other day and took the opportunity to stop at a local establishment, Lanier’s Grocery and Service. Jack and Ollie Lanier have run their store for 57 years and are still there every day.

Portrait with Motorcycle

Motorcycle, Portraits

Portraits of motorcycle collector Ramsey Allen, shot over the weekend at an antique bike meet in Denton, North Carolina.

Cicada

North Carolina

I’ve heard a lot of news reports about cicadas in North Carolina recently, but I haven’t seen or heard any of these 13 year “locusts” near my home. A trip to Denton on Sunday changed that. It was surreal as the woods around Denton Farm Park sounded alive with their drone. Thought for a moment I was in the Twilight Zone.

Plow Day in Black and White

Farm, Horses

Black and white from Caldwell County, North Carolina.

Red Caboose

History, Railroad

Still-life photograph of an old railroad caboose from a local train museum in North Carolina.

Location Scouting

Automobile, Mini Cooper

Out-take from a location scouting trip.

Plover

Bird, Garden

I walked out into the newly planted part of our garden and ran into a plover, a small wading-type bird. The poor thing was obviously hurt, for it flapped it’s damaged wing and called out in pain. All of this was a hoax of course, as the bird did everything in it’s power to lure me away from four small eggs camouflaged in the recently planted soil. I marked the spot and we’ll work around the nest till the eggs hatch and the young scurry away.

James Tristan Routh, JD

Family, Personal

Occasionally I get the opportunity to make a purely personal blog post. Yesterday my wife and I had the pleasure of watching our older son Tristan receive his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. It’s been a long journey and we are both very proud.