Still moving on catching up with photos here.  I’ve got SO MANY pictures, going back years or even a decade-plus in some cases, that I really want to get dealt with so I can have some sense that they’re properly “preserved” or what have you.

This post, and I think probably at least one or two more after it, will deal with some of the “backlog” that I’ve been going through most recently.  Some of this stuff is photos from old collections that I’ve not published before, and there’s one entire album of a couple hundred-plus images that I’m putting back online after many years in “storage.”  The first image on this page, a photo of the US Capitol, links to a Picasa photo album that includes images from a trip I took to Washington, DC with my daughter Amber in March of 2001.  The images span three days and include photos from Five Forks battleground and Richmond, VA, as well as various galleries and museums at the Smithsonian, the National Holocaust Museum, the National Mall, and much more.  I haven’t labeled these at all yet, but I’ll get to it.  I may go ahead and post the photos as individual groups at a later point, when I do get captions/labels written for them.

This was my second trip to DC and Amber’s first.   My first trip was with an ex-girlfriend, not long after I moved down to NC.  On this trip, unfortunately, the Washington Monument was closed for renovation.

The camera I took the photos with is a old VHS-C camcorder, so these photos are actually slightly increased from their original resolution.  Unfortunately while it was certainly a good camcorder for its day, by today’s standards it was pretty much junk.  I’m not even sure if you can still get media for those cameras.

Let’s see, also we’ve got the first photograph I ever took in California, last May when I drove out there.  This is just a shot of the mountains near – surprisingly enough – Exit 201 on I-80, just inside the California state line from Nevada.  Whatever “Farad” used to be, as near as I can tell now it’s a half-mile-long road off the interstate that appears to lead to some kid of pumping station or something.

There will be a lot more photos coming from California and the trip back and the time since.  I seriously have a couple of thousand to go through

You’re probably wondering at this point why I’m not posting more videos here, or at my new site, claiming I haven’t the time, yet I have time to go back through these old pictures and to catch up on last year’s work, or even work from 10 years ago.  Part of the problem with videos right now is that I’m really trying to find new ways to do things, and I honestly just haven’t been happy with any of my ideas so far.  I’ve definitely got some observations to make, I’m just in the middle of changing how I make those observations, as well as how I actually see things.

To the left we have a link to another new album, this a small collection of photos from the last “major snow storm” in North Carolina, in March of 2009.  One reason I’m posting these images is of course so my friends in Michigan can laugh hilariously at what constitutes a major snowstorm in North Carolina.  Another reason, though, is so that you can see if you’re not from there, how hard that little bit of snow hits.  Even the trees are doubled over with the weight of snow on their branches.  This tells us some important things about how nature has adapted to the longer growing season and shorter, less snowy winters there; the trees tend to grow taller, faster, but with less strength in the trunks and branches.

There are about a half-dozen photos in this album, all taken on the same stretch of Cornwall Road in Granville County, North Carolina.  One of these, I’ve turned in to yet another Tilt-Shift experiment, which you can see here to the right.  Also if you visit the Tilt-Shift album that the image is linked to, you’ll find a new shot overlooking the water tower and area surrounding KRPH as well.  I’ll have that photo and many more appearing here and at 40YOF, over the next few days, and hopefully I’ll get my head around how I want to handle media going forward as well.

As always, thanks for stopping by!