A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
The first thing I noticed were the pipes… Then there was the equipment parked across from my house… And finally, there were the markings all up and down the street, and leading into my yard… I do wish the city-county-whatever would let us in on what’s going on. On another note, a second house … Read More “Ominous Signs” »
CAUTION: Overly broad generalizations ahead. Today I caught myself using a double-standard. As we were having lunch today, a family came into the restaurant wearing clothing that marked them as being of some evangelical brand of Christianity. If the ultraconservative ankle-length dresses and lime-green sport coat weren’t enough, then the large leather thumpable Bible was … Read More “Worldlier Than Thou” »
We got home about mid-afternoon, and had some time to just sit around the house. I took a look at some more of those shots to see if some post-processing would help. It turns out that cave shots work quite well with a fake lomograph effect applied. It tends to bring out the contrast. … Read More “More Vacation Post-Processing” »
Home again. We left Norton, VA, and drive straight down Highway 23 until it turned into I-26. From there, we continue straight on until home. We stopped once at Natural Tunnel (wouldn’t that be a "cave?") State Park in Virginia, but decided we didn’t want to do another chairlift. We stopped at one other overlook, … Read More “From Norton to Greenville” »
I don’t know what happened yesterday. Almost all of my photos looked washed out. I’m not sure if iy was the cloudy sky and terrible lighting, but everything looks washed out. I woke up early this morning before we hit the road again, and tried to see what I could do about salvaging some of … Read More “Vacation Post-Processing” »
As previously stated, we were ready to have our leave of Kentucky. After breakfast, we headed out toward Lexington. We took a brief detour to the Four Roses Distillery, where once again our timing for a tour was not great. We looked around, then continued on our way. Through the outskirts of Lexington, we saw … Read More “From Bardstown to Norton” »
I spotted this on the way up to Mammoth Cave. I had fully intended to go back and get a photo of the sign, but we never went back that way. This is just so wrong on so many levels. Roadside America
I’ve spent the past three days in a cave. Literally. Even so, I still haven’t been able to escape the news that Paris Hilton spent as much time in jail. Poor little rich girl. I think I’ll go gag now.
Maybe it was the tour guide at the last cave. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was seeing one too many rolling hill and farm. Whatever the reason, we were getting tired of Kentucky. We decided to visit the Makers Mark Distillery for no other reason than we couldn’t think of anything else to … Read More “Travel Dystopia” »
Our tour guide for Crystal Onyx Cave suggested Cub Run Cave as another system we might enjoy. It was close, and supposedly had a great restaurant where we could get lunch. We pulled into the parking lot just as the tour group was leaving. Apparently we would have to drive about a mile away to … Read More “Cub Run Cave” »