Portraits – Page 108 – Dan Routh Photography

Blacksmith

Master blacksmith Jerry Darnell works in his shop, Mill Creek Forge, on Busbee Rd near Jugtown in Moore County, North Carolina. Jerry is a retired high school math teacher who now produces colonial style iron works full time. He started working with metal when he was young, learning welding and metal work from his father, and then learning blacksmithing from several nationally known smiths. Jerry has been forging metal for some 40 years. He now also teaches blacksmithing at several national craft schools such as the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. For more information on his business and his beautiful work, go to http://www.millcreekforge.com/.

Friday Faces

Portraits

Neighbor Gary McMasters.

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.

In Your Face

Animals, Farm, Portraits

A male guinea fowl eyes me on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Greensboro Sculptor, Jim Gallucci

Artist, Greensboro, Portraits, Sculpture

Jim Gallucci is a Greensboro sculptor who works in metal. A large part of his work is architectural in nature and he is known for his doors and gates. His sculptures are on display and in installations all over the country. I stopped by his studio/large metal working shop yesterday where he and his staff weld, cut, forge and mold metal, and he was hard at work on a full size model for his latest commission. For more info on Jim and his work, go to http://www.jimgalluccisculptor.com/index.php.

Moving Hay

Agriculture, Family, Portraits

Neighbor Kent Atkinson spent the Labor Day weekend moving hay. Kent farms chickens, cattle and hay in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Monday Portrait

Greensboro, Portraits

Portrait of Chef John Drees, of Southern Lights Bistro in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Guitar Repairman

Music, Portraits, Still Life

Grays Chapel neighbor Gerald Hampton plays mandolin on the weekends with the band Molasses Creek, but during the week he spends his time building guitars and repairing guitars, mandolins and the occasional fiddle like the one shown below. Gerald said it was found inside a wall of an old South Carolina house and he describes it as a “project”.

Molasses Creek

Music, Portraits

I went by an afternoon concert in High Point on Sunday and heard neighbor and Grays Chapel native Gerald Hampton play his mandolin with the band Molasses Creek. A hot evening produced some hot music. Along with Gerald, Gary Mitchell, Dave Tweedie, Marcy Brenner and Lou Castro (all four from Ocracoke Island), produce tight instrumentals and smooth vocals. Their repertoire goes from Bob Wills tunes to Peter Paul and Mary to original work with Cape Breton style fiddle. It goes from the Ink Spots to Dolly Parton and to traditional bluegrass with the addition of world class banjo picker, Stan Brown from Coleridge. For more info and to hear the band, go to http://www.molassescreek.com.