Bridal Veils

It's a wonderful time to enjoy the outdoors here in Tennessee. I captured hese waterfalls on a hike in Frozen Head state park. Using a slower shutter speed makes the falls look much more majestic.

Kill THAT Televison

What a great device. The TV-B-Gone was featured this week on wired.com. It will turn off almost any televison by going throught the codes that turn off most televisions. Now I know that there are other people that are bothered by loud televisions in public areas that no one is watching! I put in an order for one. It will be interesting to see how it works.

Friendly Fred

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I almost walked right into this Marbled Orb Weaver Spider yesterday, while going for a hike. I turned around and he was right in front of my face! Fortunately he is harmless, but captivating. I have never seen a spider with colors this vivid. After a while he crawled right inside it's leaf home. You would never know he was there, except for the web.


The weather here in Tennessee has been just amazing the past several days. The trees are just beginning to change color. It's a great time to be in the outdoors.

Voyage to Antarctica

This is a photograph of a tabular iceberg drifting in the Neumayer Channel, located on the Antarctic Peninsula. These big chucks of ice have broken off from massive glaciers that meet the sea. The majority of the mass of this berg is below the water!

One of the more intersting places that I have visited is Antarctica. I worked on a NOAA reserach vessel for a couple of years in the Southern Ocean. I love photography and this was a wonderful place to shoot pictures. I took about 30 rolls of slides on my two trips to the south.