#appalachia

There's a reason why, dare you ask to know?

The remants of old Appalachian punk grahfitti in our long abandoned water plant.

My fellow film maker and I trekked all the way to the top of this mountain to get drone footage of the WMMT radio tower last summer 2021. The winds were harsh and I had to make some emergency landings,

This time of year in Appalachia has some wonderful traditions to herald the changing of the seasons with family and friends. As the days begin to grow shorter, and the leaves begin to turn colors, folks

@flowerbaby and I finally went paddleboarding again for the first time in over a year. The day was pretty much perfect.

This one-hundred-year-old road of hairpin turns winds down to the bottom of the New River Gorge, across a narrow bridge.

@flowerbaby and I experienced one of WV's most iconic locations, which is famous for the rustic Glade Creek Grist Mill.

The year is 2010, a decade ago. I was 21 years old, and I had just bought my first camera off eBay; a cheap compact Samsung HZ10W. There were many firsts for me in 2010, it was a year of newfound freedom,

I learned yesterday that my old hometown in Southwest Virginia has organized a militia. This is an official decree, too, not some good-ol’-boy backwoods drunken hootenanny. According to an article in the

...all $31.29 of it. Actually, those funds are still in the @tarc bank account, waiting to be used to pay an outstanding bill. So the title of this post is a lie, but it will be fun to see how many TARC-haters

Looking back, I don’t know how I did it. Sitting here now on the shores of the English Channel, five thousand miles and what feels like a lifetime away from Appalachia, I’m still numb from my experiences

source FINALLY, I have tracked down the author/title of a book Kirkus Reviews praised for it fresh Southern voice: My Brother's Destroyer - Baer Creighton Book 1 - by Clayton Lindemuth How did I find it?

Twelve days until my flight, but I have only five days to prepare. I’m leaving my home for the last time on Wednesday the 14th and driving to Alabama to pick up @martiawilson. She and I are happy little

As the director of a rescue organization in a region plagued by horrific conditions for animals and high kill shelters, I have something on my mind. We have struggled for years for funding, for help from

i've been thinking about how with black & white photography, with color removed from the picture, the focus turns more towards texture. so this week, i played with texture! 78 ok so this one doesn't

most of my shooting for this project has been done with a relatively wide zoom lens, but for this week, i played more with a longer zoom lens. more image compression, shallower depth of field, and the

Operating an animal rescue in Central Appalachia has been thankless, tireless work, often brutal. Believe me when I say the community doesn’t want us here, any more than they want other charitable outreaches

hey! thanks for checking out my work! if you'd like to know more about this project, it starts here! i'm proud to be 10 weeks into this project-- closing in on the final stretch! things are starting to

57 took my mom out to lunch to celebrate a big personal win. here she is in her office 58 the sewers are fucked up in this part of corbin & overflow whenever it rains. OOPS! 59 corbinites organized

hi! it's been a while! things got busy, and then they got busier, but now that's all behind me, and i'm back at my 100 day photo challenge. 52 the very first thing i did after i got un-busy was build this