Summer 2014

So I've taken a few photos so far this summer.  There are a few from Evan Mills again...posted a few here for my very first entry on this blog.  Hillsboro had their leadership retreat there and got to go back.

The other photos are from the July 4th fireworks in Nashville at Riverfront Park!  I had a few friends over and we walked down and enjoyed the show.  Great time!

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SPRING BREAK- NYC

Had a great time the first week of Spring Break in New York City.  I had not been to New York since the summer of 2002, so it was nice to get back.  Saw a couple of shows, and did lots of sight seeing!  Some firsts were the "Top of the Rock" at Rockefeller Center, and walking across the Brooklyn Bridge after a visit to Brooklyn for breakfast!  
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Spring 2014- Cheekwood Botanical Gardens

Took "The German" Malte out to Cheekwood to see Spring showing off!  What a gorgeous morning!  We got there around 9:00am when they opened and had the place to ourselves for about 30 minutes.  The blooms were amazing!
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Seussical Twossical!

As we closer to the opening, I've added a few more promo shots for Seussical!

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Hillsboro High School's "Seussical"

Images taken for the "sneak peak" promo posters.

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2013 Favorites

This year seems to be a slow year for my photography. Although I did a bit of traveling I seem to have figured out how to be more efficient in my photography.  I also don't feel I took as many photos of "everyday" things with my regular camera...my iphone has greatly reduced this.  (Perhaps I should start to sets 2013 Favorites and 2013 iPhone Favorites?) ha ha.
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Calvary Cemetary 2013

My annual visit to Calvary Cemetery here in Nashville, happened today.  Even with the rain of the past week and the crazy winds of a few days ago, the leaves there were still just so vivid and amazing!  My favorite place to go in town during the Fall!
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Fall Break 2013

So my FALL BREAK this year was outstanding.  The first week of it was spent in Chicago with three of my newest favorite people...(all thanks to my new Hillsboro High School job)- Shreyas Patel, Kristen Moon, and Malte Treutmann!  We laughed and ate, and laughed and ate the whole time!  We all traveled together so well and just had a blast all around!  Here's hoping for more trips out of this group!
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Beavers Family Reunion

Had a great time down in Alabama this past Saturday!  It was the first annual Beavers family reunion at my Uncle Jerry's farm.  Everyone couldn't make it, but those that did had a great time, and the rain that had been with us for several days, finally let up and let us get outside part of the time and enjoy the lake and the farm!
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Bruce Munro's "LIGHT" at Cheekwood

Made a trip out to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens on the west side of Nashville.  I haven't been there since the Chihuly exhibit a couple of years ago.  This was a Bruce Munro exhibit called LIGHT.  It was beautiful, but this was one of the hardest things I've ever tried to photograph.  Most of the lights were so muted it was virtually impossible to tell what to do with them.  It was a gorgeous summer night and there weren't very many people there...so I had time to play with the pictures.

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Paris, France- Spring Break

Made another visit to Paris, France this year for Spring Break.  I went with Andrea Hittle and we stayed with Arnaud Viarouge!  We had a wonderful time and saw many great things!  
Day 1 we mostly spent at the Louvre.  I love that place.  There's so MUCH to see there!  It reminds of me a little of the Smithsonian, because there's no way to see it all...not on one visit anyway.
 Day 2 we went to Versailles and got to see how OVER THE TOP the "other 1/2 lived."  ha ha.  It is really something amazing!  The gardens weren't bloomed out since we were probably there about a month too early for that, but they were still quite impressive to say the least.

Day 3 was spent at the Eiffel Tower, Branly Museum of Pre-Historic Cultures, and the Arc De Triomphe...with many places in between.  The sun was out for a part of the day and was greatly welcomed after our first few days of overcast weather.  Over all we were very lucky with the weather, only experiencing a slight mist one night while there.


Day 4 took started out with a morning visit to the Notre Dame
Cathedral, then on over to Sainte-Chappel and  the Conciergerie...then the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pantheon and a view of the Sorbonne.  It was a FULL day to say the least.

Day 5 was the last day I had my Pentax with me.  I used up the photo card in it...and had to take pics with me phone the last day.  We visited the Paris Opera house, the Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise (Where Chopin, Jim Morrison...and MANY others are buried), and ended the evening with a view of Paris at night.

 It was an outstanding trip! I strongly suggest to people to go to one place/city and STAY there and take in all that ONE city has to offer, instead of running from city to city when you go on a trip.  I believe it is so much more fulfilling!

New Years in New Orleans 2013

My friend Ralph Smith, gave me a yell and asked if I would be interested in going on a "photography trip" somewhere.  "SURE!"  Then he did some looking around and came up with the idea of going to New Orleans on the Amtrak train from Birmingham, Alabama to New Orleans!  I loved the idea.  He booked our train tickets and our hotel and off we went.  
It just so happened that my friend Ryan Rose was already down there (he drove down right after Christmas) and so we met up with him for New Years Eve in Jackson Square, and around Frenchman's Street.  We had a excellent time!  I'm including a link of my photos I took using my phone in addition to the photos here from my regular camera.  The top pic is from my camera the bottom pic is from my phone (Using the app TripColor).

Christmas 2012

This year was a fun Christmas with the two Great Nephews, Preston and Landon running around having a big time!  Little Carter will have his chance next year.  In spite of the fact that most of Eva's clan had some sort of stomach virus (24 hour), it was a good time.  This is probably the last year of having Christmas at this house, since we are trying to sell it and get mom and dad into a smaller house in town (Florence).
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2012 Favorite Photos

So this is the time of year that I collect my favorite photographs that I have taken for the year and put them all together in one place.  I really don't know what makes them my favorites...a new place, a new angle of an old place...a view that I've never noticed before...etc.  Color, light, angles, and subject matter all play a part in my liking these.
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iPhone shots from November & December

I've enjoyed having my iPhone for the past year.  I've taken more photographs since I've had, but I've taken fewer with my real camera.  Not exactly sure how I feel about that.  Anyway...here are a few shots I've taken on the spur of the moment over the past 2 months or so...from late October to early December.
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Another walk along the river in downtown Nashville.   There was just a little bit of light left when I got there.  I got this shot, and then a few night shots of reflections in the river...one of my favorite things to photograph.

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Radnor Lake October 2012

My other favorite place in the FALL is Radnor Lake.  I always make at least one visit there during the latter part of October, and early November.  The color this year was just unbelievable!  It is hard to believe that this beautiful piece of nature is right smack dab in the middle of the city. 
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October in Nashville

I took off on my annual visit to Calvary Cemetery today.  I'll probably go back a time or two, because it was a little early for all the color of the trees to be out, but there was still PLENTY of color.  It was striking!
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Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Key West 2012

Tim and I took a flight from Knoxville to Ft. Lauderdale ($150 round trip) and stayed with Daniel Roberts again.  It was a great Fall Break!  Relaxing, good weather, some good food...and just beautiful scenery.  Here are a few of the photographs from the trip. (Click the pic)

Colorado 2012

Was in Denver for a conference this weekend.  Had a great time up in the Rockies just a little northwest of Boulder.  The Aspen Trees were unbelievably gorgeous!  I couldn't stop taking photographs of them!  There are a few of them posted. 
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