Calvary Cemetery

Took a little walk through Calvary Cemetery today. Very peaceful and the colors were great. (Click the pic)

A Fall Day At Radnor Lake

What a gorgeous sunset at Radnor Lake on this great Fall Day! I almost got there too late. I left the house at 5pm and made it to Radnor around 5:25... The sun went down VERY fast so I pretty much stayed on one side of the lake instead of getting lost in the darkness of the woods.
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My camera

Here is the camera I use for my photography. I've had several people asking me about this.

Pentax K10D.

Misc Old Shots

These are some old shots I ran across on the internet that I had uploaded to another website.

It is good to run across these from time to time, because I lost most of them when my external hard drive crashed. These were all taken in early 2008 just after I got my new camera (Pentax K10D). (Click the pic)

Following the Moon

So I've not had much practice with photographing the moon. I have played around with it a little. I've learned that the best time to take photos of the moon is earlier in the evening while it is still low in the sky. It isn't as bright when it is lower like that.
I took photographs back on September 18 and then some photographs two nights ago on October 25 and there are some striking differences. Although the bright images aren't really clear in regard to the moon itself...I love how the clouds seem to be playing around the moon (which actually looks more like the sun since it is so bright later in the night).
(Click the pic for more)

Tennessean Photo Contest Winner

This is the photograph that won the Tennessean Newspaper's Travel Photography award for 2010.

I won a 4 day and 3 night stay on the Gulf Coast, and $800 gift card from Southwest Airlines.

I sold the gift card on Craig's List and I'm saving the trip for sometime in the Spring or early Summer of 2011.

This image was taken in Grand Teton National Park in June, 2010.
(Click the Pic to see the other finalists)

GLOW SHOW 2010

So THAT was interesting! ha ha. It was like Halloween a week early!
Great people watching to say the least. Here is the 411 on the Glow Show.

SNAP is proud to participate in the UNTITLED Groups annual "Glow Show" fundraiser and party in the dark.

SNAP will collect images and put together a slide show of "glow" related subjects that will be projected at the show.

The show is One Night Only, and there is a $5 donation at the door.
1400 McGavock Pike, Nashville, TN 37206 (Riverside Village)

I had ten images in this show. (Click the Pic to see)

Digital History of the Nashville Flood

The Nashville Library is in the process of creating a DIGITAL HISTORY of the Nashville Flood from last May. If you have photographs you would like to add to thier collection you can do so at this link.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nashvilleflood/

Nice Email

This was a nice email I received today. Always nice to know someone out there actually likes your work (outside of friends and family of course...ha ha.) The image was one from my "Daylight Chihuly" gallery.
The boat image.

Dear Paul Beavers

We have added an image from your recent work on MYARTSPACE to our front page media window which shows interesting work from selective artists. We want to highlight excellent work such as yours on the site and the media window is a great vehicle for that. Congratulations! More details about our featured art can be found below.

Warm Regards,
Catherine McCormack-Skiba
Founder and Chief Creative Officer
CatMacArt Corporation


Less than 5% of all artists on myartspace get featured. The speed of that may have seemed nearly like a computer response to posting your work. I can assure you all our featured images are hand selected, mostly as the images come in daily but sometimes art can be featured from past galleries. Or there can be days or weeks of time since the initial display of work. We sometimes miss great work but we try our best to feature the most current, remarkable art across all genres.

All incoming work, (including featured work), can be seen under the filter option by selecting the most recent pull down menu when selecting artists, galleries or images.

Will Martin Photo Shoot

Took some photos of my friend Lee's son, Will.

"Ham" comes to mind. Ha ha. This was crazy, but fun! Dragging a 3 1/2 year old out to a cemetery for some photos...and he was not in the mood. Somehow we managed to get him to let me take a handful of photos and a few actual turned out okay. This type of photography is VERY VERY NEW for me, but this was really good practice.

Good Job Will! (and Lee!) (CLICK THE PIC)

A Gorgeous Day on the Natchez Trace

Fall is my favorite time of year, because of all the color.

Around 10am today, I decided it was a great time to grab my camera, jump in the car and head southwest to the Natchez Trace! It took me about a 1/2 hour just to get to the "jumping on" place in West Nashville...but it was so peaceful and the sky so blue and the trees were very pretty.

On my way back I got off the Trace and drove on Old Hillsboro Road through Leper's Fork and Hillsboro...beautiful. My favorite thing was the old store I ran across with the red, weathered wood. Great shadows and great color!

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Fall Break

Even this little guy was taking a load off for a little while.

Nashville Flood: Recovery of Another Kind

I'm pretty pumped! I found some of my photographs from the Nashville flood on Flicker and they are a decent size! I've uploaded them to the Picasa site. I'm still hoping to one day get my external hard drive that crashed to the floor (with virtually all of my photography) fixed one day. Until then it will have to be an unopened "time capsule."

(CLICK THE PIC)

Chihuly @ Cheekwood Daylight

Was at Cheekwood again yesterday for a workshop and took my camera.

Ran off during my breaks and got some shots of the Chihuly glass works.

Some different looks with all the reflection on the water...etc.

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Tennessee State Capitol Building

So I made a visit to the Southern Festival of Books today. Hit a couple of sessions, including Harold Ford, Jr. speaking in the General Assembly room. It was a great day to take photographs at the Capitol because there weren't so many people there.

The book festival was okay, but a little disappointing in the selection of topics this year. It was a nice Fall day to get out and enjoy the morning! I always like spending time in Legislative Plaza and at the War Memorial Building...which I also took a few photographs of this morning.

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Small Article

Now Playing... Small write up about my photo exhibit this past August at the Green Hills branch of the Nashville Library.

Previous Photo Page

Several of my past photographs are this site.

Click The Pic

National Parks Photo Contest

Share the Experience photo contest

One of my photographs was selected to be in the final judging for this contest.

Chihuly @ Cheekwood

The Chihuly exhibit at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, here in Nashville was amazing.Here are a few photographs I tried to take. The lighting was difficult without my tripod!(Not to mention the 100s of people I stepped on in the dark, or that bumped into me while trying to take a photograph! ha ha)
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