Another Snowy Day in Fayetteville

Well, the snowstorm that is all over the south came to Fayetteville NC, today. Of course, they closed the schools and everyone got too scared to drive more than 2 MPH, don't know why they didn't just stay home if they are that scared. I did not venture to Walley World or the grocery stores, but I am sure there is not a loaf of bread or oz of milk left. So, can some tell me what do they do, make milk sandwiches?...lol. Anyway, I dropped Sharon off at work and headed downtown. I wanted to see how the Market House looked in the snow. I was doing great, got there with no problem, found a great parking place and got my gear together. Didn't make it more than 15 yards before I stepped in a slush puddle..ha... well, I was looking through the viewfinder and moving just a bit to frame a shot, and the rest is soggy history. It would not have been so bad in my boots but of course I had my deck shoes on.
The rest of the morning went great, got several good shots around Hay Street and then went to the Marquis Market for coffee. While I was there I worked on developing the photos. Becca a friend from our regular coffee shop was also downtown getting some snow shots and stopped by the Market for a bit. We compared notes on our shoots, and the snow. Well, here are the images that I have done.:



I have more shots to go through, but that is all I have developed so far. Will Post more Later.

Trains, Icicles, and Fog Oh My !!

The fog rolled in like a gray-white wave blanketing the town in an eerie silence. The Light Stalker step on the platform to do the job he had come for. Now was the time and with a soft motorized click click it had begun.

Lol Ok a novelist I am not, justed wanted a different intro to today's entry. It was foggy this morning, couldn't see across the culdesac when I left to take Sharon to work. Driving was fine just slowed down and turned my lights on. Ok, what is it with people that think it is ok to drive around in pea soup fog with their lights off? Is it that they don't need their headlight to see because it is not dark? Well, hello the lights are so other drivers can see you coming. The worst offenders always seem to be white or gray cars, the ones you can't see. OK, I'll get off my soapbox( one of my Many Pet Peeves).
Anyway after dropping Sharon off I headed downtown to see what it looked like. I was hoping to catch the foggy streets with the street lamps on, but they were already off. So I headed to my old stand-by the train station. I figured I could make something happen there. So yall be the judge. I played around with some new (to me) pre-sets for LR with different effects.Hope you like.


Hopefully it will warm up and my bones will quit aching, so I can get out and around to some more out of the way places, Raven Rock was just suggested to me. I do want to get up there, soon hopefully.

Rain Day at the Coffee Shop

It is rainy and cold here today. Perfect weather to hang out in the coffee shop. After I dropped Sharon off at work ( work on a Saturday.... I Know!!!! ) I headed downtown. Thought I would try the Haymont Grill out for breakfast, well been there done that. Wasn't bad just nothing to write home about.

So went down the street to Rude Awakenings coffee shop to have a Spice Chai Latte ( I Love Those now). Sat in the front window so I could get some street shots of the passer-bys. well as I mentioned before it was wet, cold and miserable so not very many people out this morning. But I did get some blur shots of cars going up and down Hay Street.


I wanted to get a change of venue so I went down the street to the Marquis Market, to do basically the same thing. Had some coffee made a few pictures, you know just hung out.




Well, of course it would not be right to go downtown and not get a shot of the Market House.

Fayetteville Shorts

I went to Off The Hook Tacos the other day and just happened to get this shot. Just the one ....what can I say the food came....lol



This my Wife Sharon's favourite street view in town so I shoot it a lot in different conditions. It is Donaldson Street looking from Old Street towards Hay Street.



Then on the way it really started to pour so sure... take a shot of the windshield....why not.

OK IT GOT COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was12 degrees yesterday and for some reason, I didn't think to go downtown to get photos of the frozen fountains. This is kind, of a rare occurrence. It will only get cold enough to freeze the fountains a couple of times a year. So this morning after dropping Sharon off at work it was about 0645 and still dark. I decided to head down and get some night and twilight shots. So here they are, I decided to post the color and B&W of some of the images. The B&W only pictures really didn't have any color to speak of so just B&W for them


Ok, a couple more.

2014 Last Show

2014 went out with a bang.......well, in the sky over my neighborhood. This is what I saw as I started the car to take my wife to work yesterday morning. I grabbed the Sony and let it rip on P so a little grainy but I got it.



It was pretty cool to see. These are straight out of the camera. The only thing done to them in PS was to reduce the size for the web page.
I might go back and work them a little but what you see is pretty much what I saw that morning.

I also went to the Coffee Scene a local shop and stayed awhile but really only made one that I liked.



Then I went to the Mall.....yeah I know, but it is where the people are in this town. I stayed several hours and got some shots. Not real sure about them yet. I will come back to them. I have a series that maybe will turn out to be a theme, or a short story, but will have to see how they develop. I will let them rest and stew awhile.

Well, did the Polar Bear Plunge at Smith Lake Army Recreation area , on FT Bragg, this past Saturday, That was different. Wow, you know when you plan on doing something like this you know that it will be cold....very cold but you have know idea how cold until you are waist deep and your legs stop working. It was really an eye opener, it was a blast, but soooooooooo cold, can't wait to do it again next year.My wife says that I will do anything for a T-shirt, maybe that's true,I have a lot of T-shirts..lol.
Ok here are a few of the shots my wife took, these are with my new Sony a5100 camera that I won from Photography Concentrate in their Black Friday Ultimate Camera Giveaway. Thanks, Rob & Lauren, love this camera and winning it is awesome.
These were taken in the auto mode so my wife could just point and shoot, so straight out of the camera, have not been to LR or PS.


Ok I reaaaaaallllyyyyyyyy HAVE TO LOOSE SOME WEIGHT,,,,,,,WOW ok this is the picture that is it for me back to the gym tomorrow.
I made it to the rope,that was the 5ft level. WhenI hit waist deep my leggs stopped working, just flat stopped, andI dove in and swam from there and most of the way back . Leggs came back on line on the way out.
Well that is on frosty old man there .....it was fun like I said. Went from here to my new Favorite Thai Resturant and had hot soup to raise the core temp back close to normal.




The proceeds from this event went the Ft Bragg MWRto help the troops and their families. I will have more pictures of the event later that I took. I didn't get them developed in LS & PS this weekend, because after I had soup and warmed up we went out to the DZ and watched part of the Gemeinde Meteor shower,it was about 34 degrees out there. LOL so it was a very cold day and night.
Will post again later.