A Blue Ridge mountain sunset, shot from the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Roanoke.

Fog greeted me early Sunday as I headed out on the Blue Ridge Parkway for an extended ride down into North Carolina for breakfast.  By lunch, I was off the Parkway and into West Virginia for an afrernoon meal at Pipestem State Park. By day’s end, I was back on the Parkway and the sunset, [...]

Often, someone will come up at a sporting event or other activity and say something along the lines of “I wish I had a camera like yours so I could take photos like you.” I try to explain that the quality of photography is not determined by the equipment that a photographer uses but by [...]

Tuesday’s sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains near Meadows of Dan, Virginia (with a little help from Photoshop).

With everything that has happened lately, I took a pre-dawn ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway to think and reflect. As daylight and dawn approached, the beauty of our area emerged. This was a grab shot with the Canon G9 camera that I carry in my motorcycle saddlebags. It reminds me that — even in [...]