Hampton Inn

Newberry, South Carolina

Nothing like a touch of ostentation on Main Street.

FOR RENT

Shelby, North Carolina

ON DEMAND REALTY

Newberry, South Carolina

Apparently not much demand lately. For real estate, or gas.

I'M A decorative FAN

Newberry, South Carolina

To the Memory

Prosperity, South Carolina

SEE OTHER SIDE

Union, South Carolina

Union, South Carolina

GARAGE

Batesburg, South Carolina

No longer a gas station, but not out of business either.

Fireplugs!

Prosperity, South Carolina

Newberry, South Carolina

Newberry, South Carolina

Newberry, South Carolina

Christmas Parade

Torrington, Connecticut

MR. GOODWRENCH USED TO WORK HERE

Whitmire, South Carolina

DO NOT ENTER

Prosperity, South Carolina

Weed in the Wall

Batesburg, South Carolina

Watkinsville, Georgia

COLOR LENSES FOR YOUR EYES!!

Batesburg, South Carolina

Evening Light

North Aiken, South Carolina

North Aiken, South Carolina

North Aiken, South Carolina

SWITCH SEATS

Loco, Georgia

Early Morning on Campus

Athens, Georgia

After my artist residency in Ruskin last October I was invited by professor Mark Johnson to give a presentation at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Mark teaches the photojournalism courses there, and his students were joined by the art photography students. It was an interesting session with good questions from the participants. After staying at the hotel on the impressive Athens campus, I got to do an extended photo walkabout at dawn, before heading for Atlanta to photograph the Starlight Six drive-in.

Athens, Georgia

It seems as though the school mascot is some sort of dog...

Academic Fireplugs

Athens, Georgia

Early morning around the campus, University of Georgia, Athens.

Athens, Georgia

Two Fireplugs

Madison, Georgia

New York, New York

Reflection

Madison, Georgia

anywhere in America

It's a truism that things hit closer to home, when they do exactly that. I've been annoyed at people saying "I can't believe it happened here," when it was Columbine, Virginia Tech, the Amish village school, and so on, and so on, and so on forever, and when will we recognize that this is a huge problem?

My sense of these past events was that of course it can happen here, everywhere, I expect it to happen somewhere near me, because effective violence facilitated by the availability of high power, high capacity, firearms is utterly unchecked in our society. So it has. Sandy Hook is right around the corner, not a twenty minute drive. In China, a violent maniac wounded 22 people today, with a knife. If he had had two 9mm automatics with high capacity magazines he could have matched our Sandy Hook Shooter for the kill count, none of that wounding stuff. The hospital in Danbury was on full orders and lockdown to receive the injured, but only three were in a condition to put in the ambulance. 9mm rounds are effective. There was almost no one who wasn't obviously dead at the scene. Most of them five year old kids.

But this isn't the time to talk about gun control. Or, maybe, finally, is it?

NOW FEATURING MANICURES

Torrington, Connecticut

POLICE

Monticello, Georgia

Eyeglasses

Madison, Georgia

There were a lot of nice old buildings in town though many were no longer residences but converted to office complexes.

Two Alleys

Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta, Georgia

Playground

Jennings, Florida

More Shop Windows

Monticello, Georgia

Monticello, Georgia

ALMOST SAVED, AND THE SON SHINES

Jennings, Florida

Adel, Georgia

Gas Station Blues

Jennings, Florida

Shop Windows

Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta, Georgia

THAT GOOD GULF GASOLINE

Watkinsville, Georgia

Sidewalk Shooting

New York, New York

GATOR JERKY

Jasper, Florida

Four Statues, Madison Square Park

New York, New York (Roscoe Conkling)

New York, New York (William H. Seward)

New York, New York (David Glasgow Farragut)

New York, New York (Chester Alan Arthur)