April 28 - Natchez Trace

The Natchez Trace is a remnant of a very old road extending from Tennessee to the Mississippi River at Natchez, MS. We drove about half of it during the week. These pictures are from the Ross Barnett Reservoir, and the Cypress Swamp.

April 21 - Close Memorial Park

The camera club visited Close Memorial Park this evening. It was pretty windy, but every once in a while it died down enough to take a picture or two. The Redbud trees were in full bloom (in fact, they're on their way out), so I devoted most of my time towards these beautiful trees.

April 8 - Downtown Springfield

Another weekly camera club field trip tonight. No models, but we did find some buildings that haven't improved with age unless you're a photographer.

April 1 - Jerrica

It's rare for me to take let alone post portraits, but I had an opportunity last week to take a few pictures of Jerrica for her senior year pictures during a camera club field trip. She had five cameras pointed at her for several hours and did great.

March 31 - Grape Hyacinth

After a day of rain, the sun provided some interesting light through the clouds.

March 25 - Founders Park

I'd never visited Founders Park before this - other times I'd been by it was closed off. So I gladly took the opportunity to take a few pictures. Kind of abstract, but if you want to see what the whole thing looks like, you'll have to visit!

March 23 - Abigail Brown

Here are a few pictures of my niece, Abigail.

March 16 - Flying Pan

This is a little post-dated, but I was working on a project for the camera club. I was lucky to get a photo of this rarely observed behavior of iron skillets in the wild.

March 14 - Tangled Branches and Fellows Lake

A tangle of branches caught my attention the other day - they seemed strikingly impenetrable and foreboding.



Then it was on to Fellows Lake for the second time in three days for what turned out to be a contrast in colors. It was getting pretty late, and well past sunset and at that time of night, the sky was blue.



On the southern horizon, however, I noticed an orange glow which I assume was the lights of Springfield reflecting on the clouds in some odd way.

March 11 - Clay Pots and Fellows Lake

The winter was hard on the clay pots on our back deck - maybe it's time to get some new ones.





I also had a few minutes last night to take a few pictures of Fellows Lake right at sunset.

February 24 - Bridge at Beaver Arkansas

We spent the weekend in Eureka Springs. Though it was cloudy and kind of drab the entire time we were there, we did get out on Saturday and take a few pictures. Here are a few pictures of a bridge over Table Rock Lake at the small town of Beaver.

February 11 - Ice on James River

An ice storm that made its way through our area today left branches and trees laden with nearly an inch of ice. It's pretty as long as your power is on, and then it's not so pretty. So far, it's pretty!

It was sprinkling while I took these shots, so I didn't have a lot of time to shoot.


Mary has the only bit of color in an otherwise drab environment.

February 2 - Downtown Architecture

The camera club made a trek downtown early this morning for a few architectural pictures. It was kind of chilly at first, but we warmed up by the end of the morning. I had a lot of fun. The locations of these photographs would be familiar to most local residents, but I found it more interesting poking around behind the buildings.

January 31 - Snow!

It snowed today! It started out slow, but continued to grow. This picture is the result of a long exposure taken well after dark (I had to use the porch light to focus). The camera was confused by the near darkness and set a very warm white balance. I could have corrected it, but I kind of like the warm feel, even though it's a very cold looking scene.

January 19 - Bonus Cat

We have somehow adopted a bonus outdoor cat named Starbuck (after a character in the new Battlestar Galactica series). Despite the fact that there is a 15 foot drop just beyond the rail, she sits here often. I think her expression is "Why haven't you fed me yet?"

January 7 - James River Bridge

It's been really warm lately - windy and sunny and not very winterly at all. But some clouds starting forming today (which turned into tornado warnings) that I wanted to get out and photograph. Unfortunately my choices were limited and I ended up at this bridge over the James River not too far from my house.

January 6 - Fishing Cone

This is another image from last fall's trip to the West Thumb area of Yellowstone. There are so many fantastic things to photograph in Yellowstone, it's hard sometimes to know where to start, and there's no way to do it all. I just wish I lived closer to this place.