
Attorneys Alan Pugh, Robert Wilhoit, and Darren Allen sit for executive portraits from a recent website redo. They make up the law firm of Wilhoit, Pugh & Allen in Asheboro, North Carolina. The partners were kind enough to provide an internship for my son Tristan this summer, who is a law student at the University of North Carolina School of Law, in Chapel Hill.
Category: Portraits
Devin at Dartmouth

My posts this week have been from our trip up to New Hampshire to see my son Devin who is entering graduate school at Dartmouth College. Like most students in this day and time, he’s having to figure out how to finance his education and live. So, for the time being, he’s working at a food co-op in Hanover. He’s enjoying his experience and he likes the people he works with. Just one ironic note. They’ve placed him in charge of the beer aisle, and unlike most college students, he doesn’t drink.
Below, son and mom shopping on the street.
Working in the Yard
Hip Hop

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.
Farm Couple

At the risk of this becoming poultry week, my photographs today are from the farm of Mr and Mrs E D Snider of Liberty, North Carolina. Mr and Mrs Snider grow chickens for the home grower and free range producer market. If you want a few good chickens to produce eggs in your backyard, the Snider farm is the place to go, for a half dozen, or for hundreds. Interesting and great people, I always enjoy going by their farm. Mr Snider ran a feed and fertilizer business for years, and his wife works for the US Post Office in Pittsboro. They live on land that was part of her family’s (the McMasters) original 18th century land grant. I love to talk to people in our area who are still able to produce a livelihood from the land.
Head Shot
Christine
(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.
On the Road to New Hampshire. The adventure begins.
(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.
Cousin Sarah
(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.








