Posted in 1000 Faces, Art Photography, My Town on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
I look forward to this weekend every year… the last weekend of September. It’s the weekend that hosts the Murray’s Mill Harvest Folk Festival at the historic Murray’s Mill. This old mill has been a staple of the community since 1883. The mill site is full of craft and food vendors, as well as a [...]
Posted in Sports on Sep 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday’s cruddy weather did rain out a couple of the local football games, so I had another round of high school grid iron action tonight. At game time, it was just starting to mist a little rain, but by half way through the second quarter, it was getting pretty wet, so I hung it up [...]
Posted in Sports on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
I pulled an ultimate “I Don’t Care” tonight on my sports assignment. I felt sorta bad about it, but I did it anyway. Most of the local high schools decided that they would play football in the rain tonight rather than postpone or reschedule. For the most part, I think games should be played [...]
Posted in Photojournalism on Sep 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Another one of Caldwell County’s golden boys (and it’s not Madison Bumgarner this time) made an appearance in Hickory tonight at L.P. Frans Stadium for a concert. South Caldwell graduate and Capitol recording artist Eric Church gave a concert. I’m not sure how many people were in attendance, but my educated guess is [...]
Posted in 1000 Faces, Art Photography on Sep 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
The downtown Hickory Art Crawl is always a fun event to attend. I went out tonight because my friend Joe Young was having an opening reception for his “Living the Country Life” exhibit at Taste Full Beans Coffee House.
The exhibit includes photographs of North Carolinafarmers, mountain storytellers and people living a simpler way of [...]
Posted in Photo Walks on Sep 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Murray’s Mill Harvest Folk Festival is coming up soon, and I was fortunate enough to get down to the Mill today for another project and got a chance to check things out. I made a quick shot of the mill (above) while I was there this afternoon, and as I was shooting it, I [...]
Posted in Discussion, Miscellaneous, Photojournalism on Sep 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m about worn out with the gas prices these days. We’re getting gouged big time at the moment. Every since hurricane Katrina wiped out New Orleans, every time the wind blows in the Gulf of Mexico, gas prices go up. Today, however, was over the top. Hurricane Ike is battering the coast of Texas [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Sports on Sep 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Ok… with the exception of the playoffs, the 2008 South Atlantic League baseball season is over. Local hero, Madison Bumgarner, of the Augusta Greenjackets (San Francisco Giants) completely dominated South Atlantic League pitching during the 2008 season. Let’s look at the numbers:
ERA
Madison had the lowest season ERA of any pitcher in the league [...]
Posted in Art Photography, Discussion on Sep 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
In a recent blog post, I spent a little time defining what kind of photography I like to do. As I was browsing my friends’ blogs and photos last night, I came across a collection of photos in Gordon McGregor’s Flickr account that inspired me. Gordon has put together a short collection of [...]
Posted in My Town, Photojournalism, Sports on Sep 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Today was the final game of the 2008 season for the Hickory Crawdads. Luckily they pulled off a win to end the season on a positive note even though they had the worst overall season in the team’s 16-year history. The Crawdads finished the second half with a 22-47 record and a 53-87 [...]
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