Downtown Greenville

A walk downtown almost anywhere can have bits and pieces of interest, like the cavernous entrance to a building, someone’s reading interests in a used bookstore and the decorations of the wall and window of a store, each with its own story for us to make up.

Glendale Buildings

The structures on the Glendale site are great examples of sturdy, old mill architecture, unfortunately, a good deal of the mill has been demolished. Some of the structures are recognizable as to function but others are just there, though I am sure the folks that live there know what the structures are for. For my own thinking the two squat columns represent Gelendalehenge.

Glendale Mill Revisited

Yesterday I went with my friend Sam to Glendale Mill which is just outside of Spartanburg, SC in the town of Glendale. It is an abandoned mill site which is now Wofford College’s Environmental Center. The remaining old buildings and the stream with surrounding woods is magical. There will be a few more installments.

 

Ice Cubes

Ice cubes in faceted glasses, again. There is a constant fascination with the colors and shapes of ice in glasses and the various ways they can be seen and interpreted.

Prison Window Study

The Pickens County Museum has lots of nooks and crannies but the upstairs barred window and its shadows are most interesting to me.

 

The Music Store in Hendersonville

A stroll down Hendersonville’s main street gave me a chance to check out some of the shops and the shop selling musical instruments was particularly interesting for me with its drum sets, guitars of all sorts and other items for music making. Check out your own home town for photographic opportunities and share your results.

 

More Hendersonville

Hendersonville is a tough place to leave so here are some more px.

 

A Hendersonville Afternoon

We jaunted off to Hendersonville  for a bit of sunny afternoon shooting. I am beginning to appreciated Hendersonville’s aura and will revisit it many times.

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Fall Colors

Al and I went to the Carl Sandburg House and caught the last of the fall colors which waning were intense.

When in Doubt, Rust

I am looking through lots of images to try and delete files and get back some space and came across some rust px that I like and want to share.

More Rainy Day

Hendersonville’s streets and by-ways always arre worth a peek and here are some more of mine.

Rainy Day Trip

Today Al and I drove to Hendersonville and Flat Rock, NC and here are a few pictures from Hendersonville, I love wall signs and their parts. Tomorrow I will try to show some more from Hendersonville.

People-watching at the Fair

Along with the great fibers and fiber based products, the people in various postures of waiting, maybe for the shoppers or knitters was fun to see.

Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair 2

The SAFA had more things to see than one blog could hold so here are more.  

Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair

Alice always takes me to events with people and things to photograph including Walter Turpening, a great weaver/furniture-maker. The vendor on the phone was priceless, everyone is hooked up, maybe and the items that first caught my eye are things I want to share first, meaning there is more to come.

       

Memories and Details

The Euro Car Fest is still with me. It brought back memories with the Volvo 544, our first car tp a few British cars, one of which was definitely out of my range. The details are a reminder that a great, big picture is made of a lot of good little details. There are probably more to come.

   

Yellows and Browns

This blog started with me staring at a small bunch of bananas in the kitchen, which I brought outside to photograph but then I saw the brown and yellow leaves, so there you have it.

Foggy and Wet

Today I decided to get off my duff and go out into the yard where the wetness, fog and leaves all made for an intense color and shape experience. Foggy or cloudy, dreary days make for bright, intense colors almost as if it had a built-in polarizing filter with an additional bit of saturation. You might enjoy grabbing your camera, putting on your Wellies and go shooting.    

Out in the Country Again

Riding out in the country is fulfilling with old buildings, trees and memories of things past. I don’t know what these things are but I let my imagination fill in the facts.

  

Glasses with Water and Ice, On-going Experiment

I am enjoying my experiments with water, ice and glasses because as I work with the images I see all sorts of different possibilities including almost removing the subject’s original identity.