Aging Beauty

Photo by Delores Davis

There is something to wine becoming fine over time. It's true some things do get better with age. I hope to be one of them. 

With an abandoned subject entropy creates apparent beauty. This Nash County building is for ruin. It's disappointing when a work of art exist in an not supported environment.

Delores made this image in Rocky Mount a couple of years ago. The red, green and blue are all complementary colors giving the texture context to the human emotional factor.

Images like this are all over the country. As photographers, I feel we have a responsibility to document these old buildings as much as possible as to pass down to generations telling the story of whence we came.

Fallen Rebel

It's a concept that's difficult in this modern world to fully grasp, the idea of having war on our soil here in America.

I've been asked the last year or so to photograph national historical Civil War battlefields. Several of my images are published in the Hallowed Ground Magazine put out by the Civil War Trust. I am honored to provide an artistic view of how these places make me feel.  It's an eery feeling to be on a historical battlefield before the sun rises and experience the quietness of such places. I have a special place in my heart for everyone that was part of, or witnessed the Civil War.

Image of Henry Lawson Wyatt, an Edgecombe County teen, shot through the head on June 10, 1861. Later it was discovered he wasn't the first Rebel to fall. But Wyatt's backers pushed through and placed the statue, and he's received the credit ever since.

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Monument of Abundance

Exploring with Delores the other day, I made this image of one of my favorite landmarks in downtown Raleigh, the BB&T building. I have several friends that work in this giant.

The strong lines leading up to endless opportunity,post gives me the impression of a launching ramp for career rockets. For me, this is a Monument of Abundance.

Emerald Isle Pier

Image made on the beach of Emerald Isle. It was exciting because it was raining cats and dogs, and the wind was blowing hard. Delores had an umbrella over me and the camera. It wasn't a quick shot, after a few attempts at long exposure we caught this image. I love the way the water represents the location as the color is Emerald. Exactly what we were seeing when we were there.