Helen Balloon Race, 2019

A few of us from the photography group went to the launch of the Friday morning local balloon event. The main event, the Helen to the Atlantic race was launched the previous morning, this was just as much fun. This being my first ever…

Hiking Vickery Creek, March 2019

Did both the scouting hike and lead the actual hike for the Hearthstone Hikers. On the scouting trip, I hauled my light tripod since I anticipated shooting the waterfalls. On the later hike I left that home so as not to delay the group….

Wildflowers, May 2019

A few from the native plant garden and one from a hike along Big Creek.

Late spring flowers 2019

The first blooms are fading, but more will follow. These are the most recent, and quite possibly the last, of the first bloom. Some flowers in my yard, but several are from various trails I hiked during late April and early May.

Hiking Wildcat Creek in search of ladysippers

The Sonny Day Hikers made our annual pilgrimage to the ladyslippers on the Wildcat Creek Trail. Sonny called the time exactly right this year. Along the way we found a variety of other wildflowers. I did not stop to take pictures of every single…

Spring Flowers 2019

These pictures are from late March and early April 2019, and I will update this post as the bloom continues during the rest of April and into May. The pictures are presented in the reverse order of being shot. Many of the pictures are…

Dockery Lake Trail, 2/28/19

A good hike with the Hearthstone Hikers. We did about 3 miles out and then three miles back, all before lunch. 🙂 Not a lot to photograph, particularly without a tripod or filters (due to a broken lens being repaired.) But ya play the…

Bowman’s Island, 3/27/19

Two of us Sonny Day Hikers trekked from the north end to the fish hatchery at the south end of the trail and back. No photos on the outbound leg, but a number of them on the return leg. Exposures were tricky due to…

Late March 2019

Some of the first new blooms in the yard and a visit to the Tumbling Waters Nature trail west of Elijay, GA. The flower shots were all done with the macro lens from a distance of a few inches to a foot or so….

Old Car City 03/16/2019

A trip with the North Georgia Photography Club. More commentary following the pictures. The pictures are in the order they were taken. There is no significance to that ordering. This place eccentric, to say the least. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 4000 cars scattered…