Indian Pow Wow

The photo of the week  is actually “photos of the week. ”  They were  taken recently at an Indian Pow Wow near our home in Florida. Every year the Santa Rosa Creek Indian Tribe  presents its annual Indians Day Celebration. This dancer was one of its Spirit Warrior Dancers. Photo taken 2009.

The photo of the week takes us to the French Quarter in New Orleans. Music is everywhere there. This street musician was a member of a trio playing outside Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter. It is one of several shots I took of him and other members of the group playing for the [...]

You will find fisherman along the river from the very source all the way down to the gulf in boats of all shapes and sizes. This fisherman was waiting for the fish to really take the bait before setting the hook. However, the fish did not cooperate. But it was still a beautiful autumn day [...]

This photograph was taken near Rosemary Beach in the Florida Panhandle. You could call it a sign to nowhere or a sign to everywhere. The real problem with this photograph was to get the right lighting on most of the sign arrows so you could read them without losing them in the clouds or in [...]

This is one of my favorite photos taken around 1965 of a small boy pushing against a large metal gate on a late fall afternoon. The darkness in the foreground and the dark trees in the background provide almost a 3-dimension to the scene. The late afternoon sun turns the autumn leaves into a white [...]

Approaching storm clouds highlight the barren gulf trees that have have not survived hurricanes and other storms. The whiteness of the clouds provides a depth to this panoramic scene of Florida’s gulf coast. Photograph taken August 2009

This old mill wheel in southern Tennessee is framed by two trees and the dark leaves of the plants in the foreground. The scene lends itself best to a vertical photograph. The water from the mill’s race on the right adds a bit more light to the scene. The light brick of the mill brings [...]

 
Sometimes the lighting will never work out right for you until you take a look at the results. At a gallery night in Pensacola recently a person told me about this mill in Tennessee near the Jack Daniels distillery.
After talking to the tourist welcome center in Tennessee and a shop keeper near Jack Daniels we [...]

 
Muscatine, Iowa was the pearl button capitol of the world. A German immigrant started the fresh water clam button business back in the 1880s. Within ten years the Pearl City (Muscatine) became the largest manufacturer of fresh-water pearl buttons in the world. In 1898 Iowa turned out 138,615,696 buttons! This statue along the shores of the [...]

The early morning sunlight casts a bright glow on the branches of these coastal trees just a short distance away from the gulf shore. The angle of the sun provides striking highlights to the outlines on some of the branches and tree trunks while much of the scene remains in a dark contrasting shadows.