North Carolina Mountains

This is my largest specialty area, the subject of my first photo/text guide book, and my home for the last decade. My 7,000 images of this region may well include just the picture you need -- and if they don't, I know all the locations. For instance, this photograph can only be had from a certain supermarket parking lot!

Light mists on the mountainsides have given these ranges their name, The Smokies. This barn sits up a dead-end gravel road, in a perched valley known as "Lickskillit".

I have a good selection of fog images. Mountain streams, wilderness forests, fall colors, and soft fog tell the story of the Southern Nantahala Wilderness, a huge tract of public land less than 30 miles south of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Tiny hilltop cemeteries are an enduring part of every mountain community, invariably well-kept and colorful with silk flowers.

Downstate North Carolina

I have 4,000 images of the North Carolina piedmont, coast, and Outer Banks, including all major cities and towns, tobacco country, farming views, natural sites, lighthouses, and beaches. This historic Italianate home, with its gas light burning in broad daylight, is a museum in the peidmont insurance city of Greensboro, NC.

The Lucky Strike water tower and chimney remain a landmark in downtown Durham, even as its tobacco factories migrate elsewhere.