(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh0
File photo of the pier at Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington, North Carolina. One of those places where I would like to be.
Friday from the Files
Category: Landscape
Kidd’s Mill
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
The rock dam at Kidd’s Mill on Sandy Creek is a local landmark here in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, but it has a very special connection for me. My great-great grandfather McMasters once owned the mill there and then sold it to my great-great grandfather Routh, who rebuilt the dam and ground flour and feed for several years. Unfortunately, the mill itself is long gone, though I do remember going inside it to have feed ground when I was a youngster. The dam is still in pretty good shape and presents an idyllic scene on a recent snowy day.
Lone Tree
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Lone tree, Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina.
Where I’ve Been
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).
These images of seaplanes are from a campaign I shot in Montana and Idaho for an outdoor apparel company.
Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Canoeing
We’re off today for a few days of location catalog photography shooting outdoor apparel. I’m thankful for having the work. Shown are a couple of image shots from a previous effort. Just hope the weather holds.
(Photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Mountain Ridges
The weather in Greensboro today pretty well stinks. It’s cold and windy and rainy. Basically, it’s the kind of day that makes me want to be somewhere else working. Today’s images are from a time when clients actually used to pay me to travel to shoot and represent views of the kinds of spots I love to work, mountains and the western part of the US. All are ridges, but each has it’s own personality.
(Photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
It Ain’t Vermont, But It Sure Is Pretty
Vermont and the Blue Ridge Parkway are both famous for their Fall colors, and they are truly so, but I venture to say that the color around Greensboro and the rest of the Piedmont of North Carolina this year is just as spectacular.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
The Moon and Venus
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A few weeks ago we had one of those surreal night skies you sometimes see in the fall. The Moon was full with Venus nearby. A layer of broken clouds streamed by giving an almost pseudo daylight effect.
View from the Train Window
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Photograph is from a recent train trip my wife and I took. As you travel along the tracks, vignettes flash by the window at an amazing rate, fractions of a second to document life along the way. True snapshots.
Greensboro Snow
Yesterday we had a quite heavy snow in Greensboro, something fairly rare for us in March but not unheard of (it actually snowed here each of the first three Wednesdays of March in 1960). I’m not a really big fan of snow, and I am ready for spring to arrive, but I have to admit it was quite pretty. I went out and shot a few scenes near my home in Grays Chapel, south of Greensboro. Above is an old McCormick-Deering tractor beside a neighbor’s barn. Below is a view of our farm pond.
It was a wet snow, so the trees were covered. Below is a willow oak from my front yard. Below that is view of a neighbor’s cabin. It’s cold today and the weatherman says it’s supposed to drop to 12°F tonight (too cold!) but they are expecting it to be in the seventies by the weekend. Go figure.
(images copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
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