Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
My wife Dedra and I raised two boys, so for years we never knew what daughters were like. My older son Tristan changed that last year when he married Christine, so we finally have that daughter. All I can say is we didn’t know what we were missing. Christine has lightened up the lives of our whole family. She’s a keeper.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
This morning my wife Dedra and I dropped our younger son Devin at the train station in Greensboro to catch a train to Boston. Devin is on his way to Hanover, New Hampshire for a job and graduate school at Dartmouth College, which is a long way from Grays Chapel, North Carolina. We will miss him profoundly, but a new adventure in life awaits him. Godspeed Son, we love you.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
I went up to Virginia Beach a couple of weeks ago to teach a digital camera workshop. While I was there, my cousin Sarah graciously allowed me to stay at her and her husband Don’s home. Sarah and I grew up together in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Her family lived just a half mile or so down the road and all of us kids were like one family. I enjoyed our short visit. She is a gorgeous lady and a great hostess.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Congratulations are in order for my son’s friend Cally Womick who graduates this evening from Gray Stone Day School, a charter school located on the campus of Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, North Carolina. An Honor student at Gray Stone, Cally will be attending Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in the Fall on a full academic scholarship. Cally is the daughter of Chip and Sharon Womick of Ramseur, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Portrait study of my uncle (my Dad’s brother), L.K. Routh, Jr. Photograph was shot while L.K. was manning a rest stop at the recent Tour de Lions bike ride in Grays Chapel.
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)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
I live in my great-grandfather’s house on the family farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, just south of Greensboro. My immediate family has lived on that farm for almost one hundred years. A lot of the plants and flowers around our house date back to or are part of the original root stock from those planted by my grandparents and great-grandparents. For instance, we have a huge English boxwood and a magnolia that have to be at least a hundred years old each. Outside of our bay window is a flower bed full of iris transplanted from my grandmother’s garden. They are an old fashioned variety and are now at their annual full bloom.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Portrait of my son Devin and his friend Cally before her prom with the theme of “Masquerade” near Greensboro.
My older son Tristan works on his early garden in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. It’s funny how when you look at your children sometimes, you see your parents and grand-parents.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
I was looking through my film archive and decided to post an image from years back that I still really like. Shot on film at a slow shutter speed with no real post-processing, the image is of my son on a carousel in Raleigh.
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