Yesterday the “shutter hubbies” took a drive to Historic Smithville Park. It was a beautiful day and we we only managed to scratch the surface of it’s trails and sites. Smithville was an old company town, and the ruins of the old factory complex remain on the site. That alone is worth the trip. There…
Category: Photography
Back in time
This ivy covered cottage is located in Mount Gretna, PA. It’s a quaint village not too far from Hershey, founded as a camp meeting association. It’s cottages are lovely remnants of a long-passed era, and walking it’s steep streets is an absolute pleasure. If you ever get a chance to visit this quaint down during…
Ivy Green
I’ve always been fascinated with Ivy. When we first purchased the house I grew up in, the entire front of the facade was covered in beautiful blanket of it. Ever since then ivy has always reminded me of “home,” even though we were forced to remove it shortly after we moved in 1. I came…
Prepare
There is no such thing as a “blank slate.” When people come to a moment of creative action they have been preparing, consciously or unconsciously, for that work. Personal experience, emotional state, deliberate study, and the mental image of what “might be” all coalesce to be birthed as an artist’s creative endeavor. Life combines with…
Transform
I’ve never been very comfortable out in public. Small talk terrifies me, and I usually can’t get beyond, “So, what are you up to?” before I run out of things to say. This is probably why acting appealed to me when I was younger. The spotlights would go on, the curtain would open, and for…
Sorrow
This past week my parents finalized the sale of my childhood home. The evening before settlement we gathered with friends and family in the now-empty house and shared a final meal together in our old home. There were many tears, a lot of stories 1, and a last walk-through of the spaces in which we…
