A Selection of the photos I have taken since childhood. Hope you enjoy!Please do not post these photos anywhere without permission.
My retirement was two years ago on Friday!
You may have noticed me popping up on-air on Alabama News Network every now and then, and that will continue, but mostly I've been laid back, writing and working on my photography.
Two of my photos were juried into the Montgomery Art Guild/Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts show that opens on May 22nd.
But there is also ample time for...naps?
This photo shows the soldier I focused on. I too it on board the C-130 aircraft carrying him to Saigon or DaNang or one of the places where they would transfer to a chartered civilian aircraft that would take him back to the U.S.
I wrote about the process he followed going home. In fact that was the title of he story:
"Going Home"
After I had taken my photos, I had to get back off the plane. My end of tour was more than eigh months ahead of me.
I'll look for that story...if I have a copy of it.
for this oak
to swallow this fence.
How many people noticed?
Did they consider stopping the process?
Or did they just consider their own mortality?
N.Y. Times Headline:
The Deadline to enter is just a few weeks away...don't delay! Enter your best work soon! There are $4k in awards!
Here is the call information:
The competition is organized by an informal photographers group in Montgomery of which I am a member. We call ourselves "The 9".😃
Looking in at the 2020 Event
HERE is a video overview of the 2021 Exhibit!
EVENT: “See It Our Way (2021): The Photographer’s World”
WHERE: Armory Learning Arts Center Art Gallery, Montgomery, AL
WHEN: February 2 - 25, 2021
Twenty-eight Alabama photographers are exhibiting their work at the Anita Folmar Gallery, Armory Learning Arts Center, Montgomery, AL, February 2-24. Admission is free. The exhibit is presented in partnership with the Arts Council of Montgomery and “9,” a group of local photographers dedicated to producing and promoting fine art photography.
In addition to the “9,” photographers from four camera clubs will be exhibiting their work. These are the Capital City Camera Club in Montgomery, the Shelby County Camera Club, Trussville Photography Club, and the Shades Valley Camera Club. Each photographer has submitted one image to represent their work.
Photographs in the exhibit include color, black-and-white, and digitally altered prints. Most images will be offered for sale.
The Armory Learning Arts Center Gallery is located at 1018 Madison Ave., Montgomery. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., and Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The statue and base were later moved to Commerce Street near the entrance to the riverfront tunnel.
Rep. Alvin A. Holmes
Behind me in this photo is what we see during newscasts.
My photo was selected for a First Place Photo award in the 2020 Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Show.
I took the photo at the Equal Justice Initiative Lynching Memorial, and I don't know what the man is saying to the boy, but I projected a lynching lesson on the photo, considering the location.
Thank you to the Art Guild and Regions Bank for honoring it, and me.
See ALL of the entries in all of the categories here:
https://54thannualregionsbankexhibition.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery
On the corner of High Street and Decatur Street in Montgomery, there are two empty buildings that used to be Dry Cleaners. One was a Davis Cleaners, the other named Capital City Cleaners. It seems odd that competing cleaners would locate across the street from one another, but it may have been a good idea at the time.
Both buildings are falling down.
There's another decrepit building on another corner of that intersection as well, but I don't believe it was ever a dry cleaners.
Capital City cleaners was started in 1893 and at one point had eleven locations.
The dry cleaning locations were among the potential sources of water contamination identified by the EPA as possible sources of contamination that resulted in the Capital City Plume.
The former Montgomery Advertiser building on South Lawrence Street was also named, but the newspaper hired its own experts and they found there were more obvious sources. That newspaper building was later bought by the County and turned into office space.
Want to see if you can wrap your head around the flood of documents produced by the EPA during the years long investigation. Help yourself HERE.
Some photos showing the inside of the dry cleaning building are HERE.
The birds...a lot of them Robins...have been enjoying today's rain in Montgomery from Hurricane Delta.
(UPDATE: To clarify...these birds are on the street on which I live...at the curb...during last Saturday heavy rain.)
