Who the Heck am I

Welcome to my blog, I ran out of storage space on my last blog so instead of purchasing more space I decided to start another.

Photographing is one of my biggest passions in life. I've been a photographer for 20+ years. Although I have sold some of my work I consider myself an advance amateur. Which means I'm pretty good at pretending to know what I am doing. I arrived from Massachusetts to Northern Kentucky September 16, 2001. I hated it, for months I complained about living here, besides all the redneck jokes I would get there was nothing about Northern Kentucky I enjoyed, when I got over myself I dusted off my camera and headed for the hills, literally, I never fully understood what a beautiful place this is until I was given my first digital camera as a Christmas gift. In all honesty you couldn't get me to move out of this state.

Living so near to Cincinnati (I live right across the river) no other city can offer me more. Art museums, Cincinnati Zoo, symphony, theatre, aquarium, amusement park, Dozens of parks, one of the largest and most amazing firework display in the country and so much more. If you are from the area you know what I am talking about, if you're not, believe me when I say In and Around Northern Kentucky is worth the visit.

I know you will want to check out my other blog, I have shot photographs at the Behringer-Crawford Museum, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Zoo, Creation Museum, Eden Park, Findlay Market, Fountain, Square, Krohn Conservatory, Rabbit Hash, KY, Railway Museum, Smale Park, Spring Grove Cemetery and much more. Just click on the link below.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Lewis & Fleming County Kentucky

Today both Greg & I wanted to take a look at some property down in Lewis County, KY just south of Maysville. 4 acres of land that varied from cleared to wooded with a creek running behind the lot. This is as far south as we have been to look for property, I will be the first to admit it, it was way to south for me. Gregory being from northern Georgia I thought had a thick accent, ohhhhhh noooooo, southern Kentucky is far harder to understand. I mean they even put a spin on "ya'll" that would make your toes curl. It did have its positives like the old house below that I so wanted to explore but I didn't want to rustle any feathers, Greg's feathers that is, {rolling eyes.} As we turned the corner to get a closer look at the old house.........

........we ran smack dab into my first, yes first covered bridge in Kentucky. The trip was so totally worth it. Soon things became a little ummmmm, odd.....


 ......See this walking bridge below? Right below it is a creek, mostly dried up right now, when the rains come I am sure it is quite the different story anyway, for now residence of this small community are able to drive through the creek to get to their homes however, when the rains come they have to use the walking bridge to get over the creek, if you didn't leave your car on the other side, well you're stuck. Different way to live.
 Welcome to Fleming County, this is Amish Country. See the woman in the buggy? She wasn't happy that I took her photo. I wasn't worried though we had more horse power then she did....bahahahaha.


Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Happy Five Year Anniversary In and Around Northern Kentucky

It's hard to believe that I have been blogging for 5 years now. The photos below were from my very first post back in Aug of 2009, amazing how time just flies. These same photos were the reason why I write a reminder now and then as to why you should always backup everything on your computer. Maybe some day soon I'll go back and retake these photos.




Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Cherokee N.C.

Still uploading photos from our Georgia trip.

On our way back from Georgia we stopped in Cherokee, NC, of course how can you not photograph Native Americans dancing. 




Not sure what the real motive was for audience participation but if you look closely enough the smirk says it all.
First in my lifetime that I have actually seen moose up close and personal. Found them just as we were heading up the mountain.

Early Evening


It looked as though mother nature was going to grace us with a bit of a storm, what she gave us was some beautiful cloud formations instead.


Friday, August 15, 2014

Smokey Mountains


Keyboard  issues so the only thing I am going to say is  that the mountains were awesome     dang space bar need to get a new keyboard.





Monday, August 11, 2014

Back Home


Just arrived back home today from Tennessee, North Carolina & Georgia. The Smokey Mountains were amazing this trip so stay tuned.

Friday, August 1, 2014

CSO Lumenocity

My photo buddy texts me yesterday and says "do you want to go to Lumenocity at Washington Park?" so of course I text back and ask "what is Lumenocity?" photo buddy's response was "OMG" I knew then that my ignorance was showing and just waited for the answer, "Lumenocity is the 2nd annual Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra event being held in Washington Park," you dumb ass....okay I added that last part in my head after I read his reply. The event doesn't actually start until this evening (Friday night) but the dress rehearsal was last night, thinking the event had to be free we headed on down to watch.

When we arrived we found out the event was free however, we still needed tickets to enter, so we walked around in search for a free place to sit, during this exhausting search we came across some local news channels.


Then we stumbled across the construction of the new tracks for the street car.


finally we found a spot and planted ourselves as close to the symphony as possible, which was right behind them and across the street. Yep not so pretty but all I wanted was to listen to the music anyway.