Tommy Penick Photo Commercial and Outdoor Adventure Photographer804.397.0128
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Onward
In December of 2012 while I was moving out of Boone, NC, my dad was kind enough to bring me a 5×10 utility box trailer to throw all my junk into. Bikes, boats, skis, poles, seemingly hundreds of hiking shoes, office supplies, cameras, and about everything else you could imagine got heaped into this beast. [...]
A Tribute to a Good Friend (Winter)
It is with great sadness that I write this post because it means my dear friend, Winter, has come and gone. Gone are the evenings of making fires to stay warm, the mornings full of new snow excitement, and the echoes of hooting and hollering heard around the mountain as the Stoke overwhelms those making [...]
Grand (Canyon) Life
Gaps between writing posts hardly ever come from a lack of exciting news or new images that make me happy, but more so the writing to go along with it. I can never be satisfied with simply throwing up some images, saying I got a new contract and moved (again) across the country, because I [...]
“There’s nothing worse than a stale blog”
I love writing blog posts. My track record of frequency might hint otherwise, but there’s something refreshing about looking back at a series of writings depicting a set time period–it’s really not all that different from photographs. I’ve often heard from editors, colleagues, and friends, that there is nothing worse than a stale blog, so [...]
Mud, Rain, and Rhododendron
This morning a conversation, a friend and I were talking about what the past year of our lives have contained–it’s really amazing to think how fast the time goes, and how much can be fit into a little 365 day window. And although the past year has been huge, even since the last time I [...]
Lake Tahoe Life
It’s been more than a month since my “Manifest Destiny” post about my move from Western North Carolina to the Tahoe basin area of California. Much to my surprise, the past moth has been a huge era of introspection and change, as my personal shooting has halted, and my brain has been transformed to that [...]
Rocky Knob Promotional Video
From time to time, I’ll get a project that just can’t be finished, for whatever reason. Sometimes it’s on my end, sometimes it’s on others. This one was just a nightmare of an edit with 5 different versions, and a media library that could send an OCD guy to an asylum. I finally geared down, [...]
Manifest Destiny
For those not totally up on your 1800s history, Manifest Destiny was the belief that individuals living on the Eastern United States seaboard were destined to travel west, and conquer the unknown beyond the Appalachians. This past week, I did something similar–although modern road systems and interstates made it quite a bit easier than my [...]
More Spring Sporting
The weather over the past weeks here in Boone has been questionable at best for the minds of most–but for paddlers it’s been great. Full size consecutive storms in the area have dumped enough water in the area to have some seldom seen areas run, including North Harper’s Creek, a technical sloping 35 footer with [...]
Steph and Rob’s Asheville Wedding
If you told me a year ago that I’d be standing in an elevator with a soon-to-be married bride and her entourage of bridesmaids at any point in my life, I would’ve laughed. Even if you just told me a year ago I was shooting a wedding, I would’ve chuckled. Actually, my friends still are. [...]
