Dan Routh Photography

Feed Bin

The early winter sun produces patterns on a neighbor’s feed bins near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

I passed this red maple yesterday on the way home in northern Randolph County, North Carolina. The colors have been late this year, and I had wondered if they would turn at all, but in the past few days, the trees have been spectacular.

Hikers

fashion, Outdoors

Continuing with my look back, an image from an outdoor apparel shoot.

Agriculture

Agriculture, Animals, Farm

In continuing with where I’ve been, I grew up on a dairy farm. My Dad taught school and farmed for 18 years. After we sold the dairy cows, we switched to raising beef cattle, which we still do today. I live in my great-grandfather’s farm house which was built around 1878 on the 150 acre family farm. I enjoy shooting agriculture; I guess it’s in my blood.

For about 15 years, I worked on contract for a large agrichemical company. I crawled through corn fields in the midwest, walked through wheat in the Dakotas, picked cotton and waded through rice fields in the South. Also had the opportunity to ride and operate some really big equipment.

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines.

Automobile, Motorsports

Twenty years ago, the weekends would often find me at the track; oval, curved or straight. NASCAR was in full stride, moving up. Personalities were everywhere. Advertising was strong and budgets were available. It was an exciting time in motorsports, and I was fortunate to be a part of it.

More Western

Portraits

A couple more western images from the past.

Western Fashion

fashion, Portraits

Continuing with from where I’ve been, a fashion image from a few years back.

Where I’ve Been

Landscape, Montana

Pardon me while I digress a little with this blog. I have been posting images lately that were shot close to home and in the past few days. For the next few posts, I want to revisit where I have been, both places I went and jobs I’ve shot. I think it is important to look back occasionally to understand how I got to where I am, and to perhaps give me some idea and direction to where I’m going, (professionally that is).