Low and High Key Flowers: Lighting Tutorial

This idea is based off the first project from the 52 Weekend Digital Photo Projects book.

So the first project in the book is how to capture low and high key blooms.

It's a few days after Valentine's, but I had some flowers left over, so I used them for this project. First, I attempted the low key bloom, the process of which I shall explain below.

First off, I set up the black studio background. Next, I placed a diffused light to the side, about at a 45 degree angle to where my flower would be placed. Then I set up my camera on a tripod so that I could rely on lower shutter speed without having to worry about camera shake or upping the ISO. Then I placed my flower below the camera. I've no idea where my studio clips are so I made do with clothespins to hold the single flowers. See the image below for an idea of the layout, equipment setup, and specs.

Set your camera at two-stops below center on your in-camera meter. The original bouquet image came out like this:

After touching it up in Lightroom, the image turned out as below, cropped to square to share in Instagram.

Finally, I sent the touched-up version into Photoshop to personalize it, as shown below:

So now the same process applies to the flowers below:  

Now let's move on to the high key photograph.

For the high key process, I switched the black background with a white one. Instead of using the continuous light, I used a flash and a couple of white cards around the subject. See the image below for a set-up idea. 

I used both a white flower and a white/pink flower for this part of the project. Remember to expose these two-stops higher for high key images. Now below the same process applies to these images as above:

Color Spaces for better Viewing in iPhones and other Colorblind devices

Last night I edited vacation photos and uploaded them, noticing that the colors in the photos looked fine on the iMac in Dropbox, in Wordpress, and even more so after a new color calibration on the monitor. Then I noticed they were coming up greenish on the web in other places, and greenish on my phone. After researching a bit, I'm thinking the reason is because the icc profiles I'm assigning the photos upon saving is a color profile besides sRGB when it needs to be sRGB for better color viewing in iPhone or other programs like it. I'm writing this because now in my blog, my goal is to review techniques and project instructions with you as well as share some of the issues I come across. I mean, this blog needs a new purpose now that I'm out of school, and I don't mind teaching what I learn, so...voila. 📚 So let's see if I can show what I mean with the color profile issues before I move on to the first planned project....

Ok, so here is the same image with the same edits but saved in .jpg format with two different types of Color Spaces. The first was uploaded yesterday I to Instagram with a number of others and the color space used was ProPhoto RGB rather than sRGB. The images showed up much less saturated in my Instagram and Wordpress posts yesterday due to this issue. Look at the images below.

Looking at these images, do you notice the difference? The second shows up more saturated (if viewed from iPhone or other devices that can better register sRGB than other individual color profiles). Notice the slight blue hues more visible along the banister line toward the bottom left in the lower image versus the more gray version up top. The lower of the first two also shows a rosier hue overall, in my opinion. I've also added a third to note any difference in the colors from a "colorblind device" when using an Adobe sRGB (1998) Color Space, which I don't believe there are.

Jewelry lighting progress

August 11, 2014 Also due Saturday was a work in progress submission for a personal lighting project. This involved a working artists’ statement as well as preliminary images for ideas. So far I have had a few pieces of jewellery to work with, but will be incorporating new items in the week to follow. My in-progress artists’ statement is as follows:

During the past month and a half, I’ve become fascinated with products sold here in France, and more so in Provence. More specifically, this involves local jewellery, fabrics, and other fashion and beauty products marketed toward women. Although I have very little experience with product photography, I have gained some inspiration in pursuing it over time while viewing it in advertisements online or in magazines. If I can discover a way to market each product such that the viewer covets it, then I have achieved my goal.

What Happens in Lacoste?

https://annbeaumontgoestofrance.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/what-happens-in-lacoste/  

Kassie's Magical Mystery Tour

Rediscovered images, original post here, along with tons more photographs: https://annbeaumontgoestofrance.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/kassies-magical-mystery-tour/

Ancient Amphitheatre beyond Chateau de Sade

Start from the bottom and make your way up to the amphitheater at the end where Luke is sitting.

Enchanté

"Let them eat cake!" Marie Antoinette was reported to have said that when asked about the starvation of the peasants, but that is a lie. She is recorded by Rousseau to have said, "Let them eat brioche," when she was 13 when asked about the peasants' inability to attain bread. The sentence was also attributed to a number of other young princesses, and is suspected to have been a lie propagated by Rousseau himself.

She did write this, according to a few online sources, however: "It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The King seems to understand this truth."

That being said, I couldn't find any record of actual primary sourced material for that, so it could be more lies on her account, as is bound to occur.

Nevertheless, Marie Antoinette and Louis XIV exploited the masses and they lived life in a luxurious city of their own, and then came the French Revolution, and then their heads were chopped off at guillotine. Louis XIV was 77 and Marie was 38. So it goes.

The images below offer an account of the apartments at Versailles, as well as the hall of mirrors. Versailles housed members of the French government, particularly those in the royal family, and Versailles itself contained a population of over 60,000 people at the time of the revolution in 1789.

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Locks and locks of Love

A few friends and I went for a night on the town in Paris with the intention of eventually finding locks to snap onto the lock bridge as tokens of love for our lovers. Haiting didn't have one, so she is scheming to either throw our locks into the river or destroy the bridge altogether. (Not really... Maybe....)

As you can tell from the images below, there is lots of love in France, lots of love in Paris. Some people get jealous from it, but it makes me feel happy and wish for my love to be with me.

It also makes me a staring creeper photographing intimate moments of complete strangers.
C'est la vie!!!

The locks above are the locks on the gate at the time just after we put them up. We clasped them onto the newest fence so that it would take longer to collapse under the pressure. I think it's a good thing the fences are replaced every now and again, because not all relationships last forever, but certainly these three will.

Here they are in the day time and the ink is faded a bit. That's ok, the love is going strong!

Où est la carrière?

Take the road behind Pierre Cardin's chateau in Lacoste, then go right at the gargoyle sculpture to get to the quarry. It's giant old ruins, you can't miss it. That is where we went together as a class on Wednesday, July 2nd. View the images in this post to get an idea of what the quarry is like. If ever you visit Lacoste, or for those of you who are already here, the hike is not so extreme and is definitely worthwhile. Many students won't wake up in the wee hours of the morning, so for those of you visiting who are morning birds, this would be a great spot to relax and reflect with less distraction while feeling like an amateur explorer. It is also a great time for good photographs, the wee hours of morning. If you are a night owl, however, the evening would also be an auspicious time for shooting (assuming you're not a photographer and you don't already know that rule of photography).

On July 4th, America's Independence Day, we took a trip to Nîmes and Pont du Gard, then we had a barbecue, so I'll post more on that tomorrow.

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Je suis désolé pour mon mauvais traduction. Je suis juste apprendre le français maintenant.

Voila....

Prenez la route derrière le château de Pierre Cardin à Lacoste, puis allez à droite à la sculpture de gargouille pour se rendre à la carrière. C'est ruines géantes, vous ne pouvez pas le manquer. C'est là que nous sommes allés ensemble en tant que classe le mercredi 2 Juillet.

Voir la images dans ce post pour avoir une idée de ce que la carrière est comme. Si jamais vous visitez Lacoste, ou pour ceux d'entre vous qui sont déjà ici, la randonnée n'est pas si extrême et vaut vraiment la peine. Beaucoup d'étudiants ne se réveillent dans les petites heures du matin, pour ceux d'entre vous qui sont des oiseaux visite du matin, ce serait un endroit idéal pour se détendre et réfléchir avec moins de distraction tout en se sentant comme un explorateur amateur. Il est aussi un grand moment pour de bonnes photos, les petites heures du matin. Si vous êtes un oiseau de nuit, cependant, la soirée serait aussi un moment propice pour la prise de vue (en supposant que vous n'êtes pas un photographe et vous ne savez pas déjà cette règle de la photographie).

Le 4 Juillet, Jour de l'Indépendance de l'Amérique, nous avons pris un voyage à Nîmes et le Pont du Gard, puis nous avons eu un barbecue et je posterai plus sur que demain.

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 Above you see, this is the quarry, or at least one view of it. Hero, another photographer I've met during this quarter, has shown me this vantage point at the quarry, for which I am very grateful. You see during the middle of the day, the shadows are deeper so there is not as much detail as there could be during times of day when light is more diffuse. This is a basic understanding among photographers, but it is important for anyone who wants to take lovely photographs outdoors to know.

Ci-dessus vous voyez, c'est la carrière, ou au moins une vue de celui-ci. Hero, un autre photographe que j'ai rencontré au cours de ce trimestre, m'a montré ce point à la carrière de vue, pour qui je suis très reconnaissant. Vous voyez au milieu de la journée, les ombres sont plus profondes donc il n'y a pas autant de détails que il pourrait y avoir pendant les périodes de la journée où la lumière est plus diffuse. Il s'agit d'une compréhension de base parmi les photographes, mais il est important pour tous ceux qui veulent prendre des photos de belles à l'extérieur pour savoir.

 Here is another student and friend I've met at Lacoste. It is Catherine, and she is pursuing her graduate degree in fashion-marketing. I chose the photograph of her above because it's interesting to see how small she is against the giant rocks. This also serves to provide you with a sense of scale for the rocks.

Voici un autre élève et ami que j'ai rencontré à Lacoste. C'est Catherine, et elle poursuit ses études de deuxième cycle en mode-marketing. J'ai choisi la photo de son ci-dessus parce que c'est intéressant de voir comment elle est petite contre les rochers géants. Cela sert aussi à vous fournir une idée de l'échelle pour les roches. Some graffiti is apparent around the quarry, but it is frowned upon and shameful. Don't be that bad tourist or just rude dude who decides to spray harsh paint chemicals and chlorofluorocarbons onto the world's natural resources. This reminds me of a place at home in West Virginia, called Beauty Mountain, and the amount of vulgar and tasteless graffiti wasted all over its surface, which I will also show below for your reference. Anyway, "Goodbye Lacoste" really stood out to me here, and I noticed another student in Location Research who was painting it for her class, so at least I am not the only one.

Certains graffiti est apparent autour de la carrière, mais il est mal vu et honteux. Ne pas être si mauvais touristique ou juste le type désagréable qui décide de pulvériser des produits chimiques et les chlorofluorocarbones de peinture sévères sur les ressources naturelles de la planète. Cela me rappelle un endroit à la maison en Virginie-Occidentale (West Virginia), appelé Beauté Montagne, et le nombre de graffitis vulgaire et insipide perdu sur toute sa surface, que je vais aussi montrer ci-dessous pour votre référence. Quoi qu'il en soit, "Goodbye Lacoste" se démarque vraiment pour moi ici, et j'ai remarqué un autre étudiant en Situation de recherche qui a été peint pour sa classe, donc au moins je ne suis pas le seul.

Whoever does this is the scum of the earth. And also to my loved ones and friends at home: so you see, West Virginia, this doesn't only happen in West Virginia. Apparently cultivated art students from SCAD and from supposedly higher class families commit this crime as well. It's worthless, pointless, and it makes for bad images, and bad family hikes. Who would want their kids to see that? Anyway, you can also look at it like a Monet painting. As in the photograph below of the view from Beauty Mountain in West Virginia, you can see that the scenery from afar is breathtaking.

Celui qui fait cela est l'écume de la terre. Et aussi à mes proches et amis à la maison: si vous voyez, Virginie-Occidentale, cela ne se produit pas seulement en Virginie-Occidentale. Étudiants en art Apparemment cultivées du SCAD et de familles de la classe soi-disant supérieurs commettre ce crime ainsi. C'est inutile, inutile, et il fait pour de mauvaises images, et les mauvaises randonnées en famille. Qui veulent que leurs enfants voient que? Quoi qu'il en soit, vous pouvez également regarder comme un tableau de Monet. Comme sur la photo ci-dessous de la vue de Beauté Montagne en Virginie-Occidentale, vous pouvez voir que le paysage est à couper le souffle de loin.

 More students at the quarry.... Plus d'étudiants à la carrière ....

Here is TJ setting up his equipment to take a shot of himself. He has an interesting fine art series in which he takes self-portraits. I am interested in seeing more about it...I know it reminds me of Cindy Sherman whenever photographers do this. TJ also has background in the fashion industry, as he has interned with a major fashion industry while in high school. As soon as I discover his blog url, and the other students' blogs, I will also post them for further reference.

Voici la mise en place de son équipement pour prendre une photo de lui-même TJ. Il dispose d'une série de beaux-arts intéressant dans lequel il prend des auto-portraits. Je suis intéressé à voir plus à ce sujet ... Je sais que cela me rappelle à chaque fois que Cindy Sherman photographes le font. TJ a aussi expérience dans l'industrie de la mode, comme il l'a interné avec une importante industrie de la mode au lycée. Dès que je découvre son blog URL, et les blogs des autres élèves, je vais aussi les publier pour référence ultérieure.

Above, Shannon and Catherine. This helps you get a sense of scale again. Obviously Shannon is not afraid of climbing or heights. This is fortunate for her because she can use those extra angles for additional vantage points when photographing.

Ci-dessus, Shannon et Catherine. Cela vous aide à avoir une idée de l'échelle de nouveau. Évidemment Shannon n'a pas peur de l'escalade ou les hauteurs. C'est une chance pour elle car elle peut utiliser ces angles supplémentaires pour les points de vue supplémentaires lorsque vous photographiez.

This is my professor, Kyle Ford. Professor Ford has worked in the past for Steve McCurry, the photographer famous for the National Geographic image of the Afghan girl with the shawl and the brilliantly sharp eyes. Her name is Sharbat Gula. This professor is awesome and inspirational. At SCAD, I've had a few professors, one in particular, whose teaching style toward students was so restrictive and contradictory that it felt like I was trying to please the most difficult client in the world with no luck, no matter how much we conversed about what her, or his, preferred outcome should be. Professor Ford isn't like that. He thrives off watching students pursuing their passions. Any time I've had any trouble or questions, he is happy to help, and he seems happy to allow us to discover our own styles and pursue our own agendas in our work. At the same time, he helps guide us and has already shown us what access we have to scholarly and more creditable resources in the photography field. If you, as a SCAD photo student, don't know this already, there are many photography book resources in the library in Upper Village. Not only that, the professor has been showing us what types of travel photos do and don't make it into editorials and other publications in the travel industry. For my mom and dad, don't worry, this guy also shows us how we can market our work under several different brand names so that we don't have to restrict or pigeonhole our work into narrow fields of photography. In other words, I can still photograph the world and have one business for selling street photography, landscapes, architecture, another for fine art, another for food photography, another for wildlife, another for portraiture (or on the side is more likely for supplemental projects). This is wonderful again, because I've had professors in the past tell me that I needed to focus on a narrow field in order to make it as a successful photographer in the world. I'm still happy at my refusal to embrace that limiting notion. Alright, that's enough on Ford then. Here's one of his url's showing work largely from his home, the Adirondack natural preserve: http://www.kylefordphotography.com.

Ceci est mon professeur, Kyle Ford. Professeur Ford a travaillé dans le passé pour Steve McCurry, le photographe célèbre pour l'image National Geographic de la jeune fille afghane avec le châle et les yeux extrêmement nettes. Son nom est Sharbat Gula. Ce professeur est génial et inspiré. Au SCAD, j'ai eu quelques professeurs, un en particulier, dont le style d'enseignement vers les étudiants était si restrictive et contradictoire qu'il se sentait comme si j'essayais de plaire au client le plus difficile au monde avec pas de chance, peu importe combien nous conversé sur ce son, ou sa, résultat devrait être préféré. Professeur Ford n'est pas comme ça. Il se nourrit de regarder les étudiants qui poursuivent leurs passions. Chaque fois que j'ai eu un quelconque problème ou des questions, il est heureux de vous aider, et il semble heureux de nous permettre de découvrir nos propres modèles et la poursuite de nos propres programmes dans notre travail. Dans le même temps, il nous aide à guider et nous a déjà montré ce que nous avons accès à la doctrine et des ressources plus admissibles dans le domaine de la photographie. Si vous, en tant que photo étudiant SCAD, ne savez pas déjà, il ya beaucoup de ressources photographie de livres dans la bibliothèque en haut du village. Non seulement cela, le professeur a été de nous montrer quels types de photos de voyage faire et ne pas faire dans les éditoriaux et les autres publications de l'industrie du Voyage. Pour ma maman et papa, ne vous inquiétez pas, ce gars nous montre aussi comment nous pouvons commercialiser notre travail sous plusieurs noms de marque différents de sorte que nous n'avons pas de restreindre ou de classer notre travail dans les champs étroits de la photographie. En d'autres termes, je ne peux toujours photographier le monde et avoir un métier pour la vente de la photographie de rue, paysages, architecture, l'autre pour les beaux-arts, un autre pour la photographie alimentaire, un autre pour la faune, un autre pour le portrait (ou sur le côté est plus probable pour supplémentaire projets). Ce qui est merveilleux à nouveau, parce que j'ai eu des professeurs dans le passé me dire que je devais me concentrer sur un champ étroit afin de faire en tant que photographe à succès dans le monde. Je suis toujours heureux de mon refus d'adopter cette notion de limitation. Bon, ça suffit à M. Ford alors. Voilà l'un des montrant le travail de son URL en grande partie de sa maison, préserver le patrimoine naturel Adirondack: http://www.kylefordphotography.com.

Above you see the entrance to the quarry, a great deal of students, and Hero, a brilliant photographer who is one of my class members. You see he is looking through the actual live view section of his camera in order to gain insight into composition for the final outcome of the image. This might also serve as a bit of a SCAD advert because of his tee shirt.

Ci-dessus vous voyez l'entrée de la carrière, une grande partie des étudiants, et Hero, un brillant photographe qui est l'un des membres de ma classe. Vous voyez, il est à la recherche à travers la section de vue réel en direct de son appareil photo afin d'obtenir un aperçu de la composition pour le résultat final de l'image. Cela peut aussi servir un peu de l'annonce SCAD en raison de son tee-shirt.

All for now. Too da loo!

Tout pour le moment. Au revoir!

Hiking in Lacoste

Generally I would not join in on a hiking, rock climbing adventure with people I didn't know well into the woods of Southern France so near to nightfall, but this time was worth it. **Just click on the images to see them in full. Enjoy.

The original trip began when three other students joined me after dinner to see how I had made it to a road leading to another road which led to Bonnieux from the cherry tree groves behind Maisson Basse of lower Lacoste. I had actually gone alone the evening before because the other students who wanted to join were busy with other things. It was alright, though; making enough noise while walking in the woods is a smart move for keeping wild boar away. On that note, according to a professor here, there are asps in Southern France, and these are deadly poisonous snakes. Cleopatra was supposedly killed by one.

Anyway, we four made it to the end of the country road that led through the fields and woods behind Maisson Basse, and we took a right onto the road that led to Lacoste. Below is one of the views we saw along the way to Lacoste itself.

Once we were at the road to Maison Basse, we decided to just walk on to Lacoste and up to the chateau de Sade in order to get a nice view of the village during sundown.

   

These are a couple of views along the way up through this village and nearing the top of the mountain.

And this is a view of a part of the chateau top during sundown. That statue is an abstracted one of Marquis de Sade. I haven't figured out yet who created the sculpture. Nevertheless, from the top, the group broke up and I joined some other students to hike and explore beyond the top of the chateau.

We found one of many great big rocks to climb, and from the first rock, I managed to capture this moment of sunset over the mountains and trees. Luckily the clouds were also working with us in this experience.

Below, you'll see the view from one of the other rocks on which we climbed. There's a bird's eye view from it looking down at some of my fellow students--Juan, Molly, and Stephanie.

Here, the students were taking turns going to an edge of the rock which protruded over an impressive height. First was Pedro. Then Grant. Then Connor. Then Emalee. Then Molly. You'll see they're all having a laugh about the frightening ordeal.

    

This photograph of Emalee, below, is one of my favorites. This was the perfect moment for a photograph.

Right, that's it! From there, we just hiked back and played music in Maisson Forte, mostly listening to Matt Yocum perform personal compositions and memorised classics. For a video and photograph on that, see the previous post.

Next time I'll write about the World Cup, and yes, unfortunately, America losing.

Where am I?!

Bonjour! Over the past 5 days, more or less, I've been in London, United Kingdom; Marseilles, Lacoste, Apt, and Pont Julien, France. An assignment was due on natural lighting and I had to have a food photograph, so I took a few snaps of some fish and chips and the hotel before leaving for the airport for SCAD Lacoste. Here is my favorite of those: 

Moving on, here are the photographs of Lacoste I have taken in and from Upper Village of Lacoste. These are from the first Saturday prior to beginning classes at SCAD Lacoste, which is Savannah College of Art and Design, in the Photography program. I hope you'll enjoy them, there will be many more during the course of the next two months.

There are a ton of historic sculptures like the one above. As you can also see, there is an abundance of fields and farmland in these hills. The fields that I have noticed are growing grapes, olives, cherry trees, and lavender. There is a great deal of lavender, which is wonderful because it's my favorite, and the smell is lovely. Cherries are still around but will be gone in the next few weeks as they are at the end of the season. If you should visit Lacoste, be wary of wild boar, as they are prevalent in this area. There are also snakes, but none poisonous that I have been warned about, and there are no mountain lions or cougars. Lacoste was once home to the Marquis de Sade, whose chateau has been purchased by Pierre Cardin. Cardin will be throwing an arts and cultural festival for about two weeks in July, the Festival de Sade. There are around 30 people living in the proper village (Upper village) of Lacoste, and there are only around 200-300 people living in the area as a whole. Savannah College of Art and Design takes up about half of the village at this point. The village is a part of a national park. All for now on Lacoste, take a look below at images of Pont Julien, an historic Roman arch bridge dated back to 3 BC.

An interesting thing about this type of ancient architecture is that (and a local staff member demonstrated this to me and a few other students), if one person stands on one end of a single arch, and the other person stands on the other end with his/her ear up to the wall, then he/she can hear the other person speak into the wall from the other side. These brilliant acoustics are one of the interesting aspects of this ancient Roman architectural style.

Somewhat unrelated, here is a bike path in France off to the side of the road near the bridge:

Ok, bye! Au revoir! Bonsoir!!! xx

You Cannot Step into the Same River Twice - Heraclitus

Photo Composite 4/5 - Advanced Digital Final Here's an HDR of a waterfall on the way to Thurmond, finally finished with this for class. One more to go with the absolute due date being Sunday. The text on the trees is a quote by Heraclitus, "You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you." Let me know how you like it and whether or not you can spot that little clown. — in Thurmond, WV.

Gutstein Gallery Exhibition

Midterms this week and business in Charleston in the early A.M.Gutstein gallery exhibition in Savannah Thursday-Sunday, travel/accommodation arrangements underway.

That being said, uploads will be slow until Monday/Tuesday. I plan to make the most out of River Street and Tybee and see if I can't get a better look at a gator on that wildlife preserve just across the border.

Below are the two photographs that made it into this Silver & Ink exhibition.

Frozen Plum Orchard Lake, above

Coal Refuse Facility beside Marsh Fork Elementary, recently relocated, on Coal River Road, WV

Take care!

Fighting Fire on an Aircraft

Finished processing photos from the fire training shoot! Check out a select handful of my favorites below, aside from the featured image! Be thankful to firefighters--they put their lives on the line every day in order to save others. Even training is dangerous. This post is titled Rivers of Blood after hearing another photographer's description of the red light reflections on the water coming toward the camera.

What do you think?

Weekly Update

Booked through May 2nd! End of this week from Thursday through Sunday is the Silver & Ink exhibition reception at Gutstein Gallery in Savannah, Georgia. If you don't get a chance to visit then, the exhibition will be there until June.

I'm processing landscapes from the airport to post tomorrow morning and seeing what I can finish of South Georgia photographs to post. Beyond that, SCAD homework--midterms.

Happy Easter!!!

Learning & Experimenting

Besides school, work, business, and this blog, I've begun an assistantship and have been learning tons and tons of new information on night photography. See photos below for further illustration. Here's a ghost selfie practice:

***P.S.- Also have begun reading my cousin Marcus Evans' book Robert and so far I haven't been able to put it down when I have the free time to read. Check it out--half the proceeds from the book goes to Lymphoma research.

You can learn more about Spleniclymphoma and Marcus' battle against it here: http://spleniclymphoma.com

All for now!

Upcoming Photographs

Stay tuned for a few upcoming night photography experimentation samples.

The image here is of a carnival ride on the strip of Daytona Beach, Florida this past December. Good night!

Fire and Rain

Who wouldn't want to watch people in silver suits extinguish flames on an aircraft?Look at that beautiful sky. Further editing is in progress. More on this as the week progresses.

Busy Week

The workload has picked up at Savannah College of Art and Design under the instruction of a notoriously challenging professor in the Advanced Digital Imaging category. Lowe's weekend work seems also to be picking up with the warmer weather, but that's no issue. That being the case, daily posts will become a challenge over this quarter, but I will make the effort to at least update this blog on photos of the day. Fortunately I've already caught up on all work missed from my trip down south for a few weeks. For now, I'm posting a few photographs I managed to snap of Georgia and South Carolina on my way back up. Enjoy!

And so there are a few pieces from the heart of scenery closer to my home town. I'm slowly working on a series with photographs of Atkinson County involving Kirkland, Pearson, Axson, and Willacoochee, and plan to finish that up for this first series on it in August/September. Have a great week!