Old bricks have some of the best textures. I also think that if those bricks could talk, man, the stories they could tell. This building in the old downtown Ruston, Louisiana area has some of those very bricks on the north-facing side. I have been meaning to create some images of this building’s bricks, and […]
In my opinion, a sky with no clouds is boring. While I do like a bright, blue sky at times, give me one with puffy white clouds any day. It’s no secret that I like black and white photography. It’s my favorite way of capturing details and moments in time. One evening, I was looking
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At the corner of highways LA 146 and LA 148 in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, sits what remains of the Vernon Community Store. Nature is very much reclaiming the structure, and it has seen better days. I found very little information online about this general store and its history. In fact, this post from the Abandoned
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This old gymnasium at an abandoned school in Chatham, Louisiana caught my attention here recently while out Sunday riding. I shot these pictures in RAW and used Nikon NX Studio to adjust the exposure a bit and set the color profiles to Bleached. I like how they turned out. I don’t normally edit my images
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I have photographed this old country church before, but I was never really happy with the results. While driving nearby backroads today, I decided to try again. I’m not sure if it is active or when the last services were (they weren’t having any on this particular Sunday morning while I was there). It may
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I notice a pattern when I’m hanging around the house, photographing things. Some of my favorite things to look for are small flowers and mushrooms. I also enjoy capturing natural light, shadow, and textures in black and white on bright, super contrasty days. But the one constant is that one of our female cats, Blue,
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Super-bright light makes for great black and white photos. Often, I look for shadows, light, and texture around or on plants and other elements of nature to capture contrasty monochrome images. In my opinion, this is one of the major benefits of using mirrorless cameras. While I do enjoy and quite often photograph with a
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Rural Louisiana: black-and-white photos in tight, documentary style.
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I would like to preface this article by stating that I am not a Mason, nor do I have any knowledge of Masonry. Some say they are shrouded in mystery. However, I am drawn to interesting old structures and architectures. Even better are those steeped in history. Recently, I was cruising in a local area
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I go bass fishing with my brother several times a year over on Toledo Bend Reservoir. On many occasions, we forego fishing on the main lake and instead head up the Sabine River. Fishing on the river is a bit different than fishing on the lake. Mostly, we target creeks, backwater sloughs and ponds, steep