Distant Relatives

You can tell it's Appalachia, there are two firearms in the family portrait.

Ramps Patch

If I cooked, this would be really handy.

The White Tree

One of the few consolations of Winter in Appalachia is that you can see the branching shapes of certain trees that stand out against the dead brown hills.

Bunting

I thought about saving this for a patriotic holiday, but I know my memory isn't that good.

Bridge Day 2007

After all these years, I finally went to Bridge Day. I had a lot of work to do for a client besides shooting jumpers, but I did get a few shots of the action. It's pretty startling to see people jump off the edge, 876 feet above the river.

Appalachian Dream

Ya got yer trailer, yer pickup and a mountaintop to park 'em on. What more is there?

Big Cut on 119

Holy cow... would you look at that? I was driving home from a job on US119 through southern West Virginia and I just had to pull over and take a photo of this scene. This demonstrates the difficulty of building roads in Appalachia. That's a lot of rock to move. And you have to do that for every road, shopping center, or whatever you want to build around here.