Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
I am a little late in posting today, but I just got home after a 20 hour train journey (I will post about that next week). Today’s photographs are from a trip to Seagrove Hardware in Seagrove, North Carolina. It is a real small town local hardware with genuine stuff and genuine service. Where else can you still pick up canning supplies, seed, and a few horseshoes when you need them; and take them home in a paper bag.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Tomatoes form a still life at a produce stand in Candor, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
I was out on Saturday morning to help my cousin with his cows when I caught his mother Cathy working in her yard and taking a break from mowing at her home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
The figs are starting to ripen on the south side of one of our barns. Succulent golden fruits that make wonderful preserves but are even better eaten fresh from the tree (or bush as it were). I picked a bowl for my wife the other day, and as as oft happens on our farm, I had help, this time from one of our farm cats, Tiger.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(Posted from Hanover, New Hampshire after a 20 hour train journey. More to come on that next week.)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
My son Tristan is at home this week to take care of the animals, so my wife Dedra and I are off tomorrow morning to New Hampshire to visit our younger son Devin in Hanover. We catch the Amtrak train at 4:00 AM from Greensboro to Boston, about a 15 hour trip. Why the train? Why not? We’ve never done it before, so it’s sort of an adventure, a real journey. A chance to see the whole East Coast from a different perspective. My blog posting may be a little sporadic this week, but I plan on trying to keep up. Hopefully I will come back with some interesting images. No, the guy in the photograph isn’t me, and I do hope our train car is in a little better shape.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Watermelons are stacked at a roadside produce stand south of Greensboro, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Today’s photograph is pulled from my files and goes back to the days when a lot of my work was based on motorsports. The image is of International Motorsports Hall of Famer and Pro Stock driver Bob Glidden, who when he retired in 1997 held the record for the most NHRA wins at 85 (he now stands third overall). I shot this shot from a cherry picker over the start line at Rockingham, North Carolina.
In a departure from my more rural posts of late, yesterday I had some fun shooting an aspiring young local Greensboro hip hop/pop/R&B artist Zarah Washington. She was fresh and full of energy. Though I’m not a connoisseur of or know much about that particular genre of music, I did enjoy the gritty imagery. Zarah has a Myspace page at www.myspace.com/zarahzarah.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
The lead cyclist breaks away from the pack during the 2009 Tour de Lions in Grays Chapel, North Carolina earlier this summer. It’s not really a race, but the riders do take things pretty seriously. His late kick enabled him to finish about five minutes ahead of the rest of the field after a 75 mile ride. Not the Tour de France, but a lot of fun nonetheless.
Stone milling equipment at the Old Mill of Guilford near Greensboro, North Carolina. The old mill produces a complete line of stone ground flours and mixes on water wheel powered machinery. Below a young lady bags up the products.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
