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Highlining Hebron
Over the past year I’ve become quite jaded on Boone from time to time. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut here; being a small town with limited social circles, Boone can become a little monotonous. But Friday afternoon while Mike Holley was setting up his high line above Hebron Rock Colony, a Appalachian [...]
It’s Finally Here (Winter)
Winter, that is. Hopefully. Maybe it’s just another tease of a cold front bringing an all too familiar “arctic blast”. Our weather systems seem to be stuck in a rut, where anywhere between 1″-4″ of rain will drop over the area in about 24 hours (leading to some great kayaking) followed by a short, intense [...]
Tarheel Foodie
This past week I had the pleasure of working with Susan Walter Sink of Tarheel Foodie in Durham at The Cookery, a community kitchen that caters to food truck operators and other cooks in the area. Susan runs a very interesting business, that teaches and produces food that has been grown both organically and locally. [...]
Best of 2011
Seeing everyone’s “Best of 2011″ galleries this year made me even more reluctant to do the annual update, but after finding a yearly update I wrote to myself from 4 years ago, I remembered how gratifying it is to see progress, while it may not be evident on the surface. This year was great on [...]
Video Editing
The powers that be of Appalachian State have granted me an entire month off from classes for winter break. I’m not much for sitting around, so I decided to pack it out with good stuff–skiing, paddling, biking, but mainly skiing. After snow totals across the entire country have been less than impressive, I’ve decided to [...]
Paddling Season
As you may have noticed, posts have been a little slow in the past week or so. Yes, the semester has been rounding out to the final stretch with exams this week. And while everyone has been in a huge rush, we’ve also had tons of water. Two consecutive weeks we had storms bringing in [...]
Apps Fall to University of Maine
Saturday ended the Mountaineers football season here in Boone, after losing to University of Maine. While it’s never fun to watch our team drown in sorrow, I’m looking forward to the other seasons to come. This week offered great paddling, biking, and mediocre skiing–but that’s what you get in the southeast. Congratulations to the team [...]
Sanford Portraits
I’m always referred to as the “sports” guy, or the “action” guy, and I don’t see those as necessarily bad terms, but I don’t like being a one dimensional (I guess that explains my insatiable thirst for random outdoor sports). So when a class assignment came up that gave us the option between shooting pre-game [...]
Office Portrait
We’ve all seen the scads of corporate work–a guy in the corner of his office, softly lit with a sincere and powerful look at the top of his sky scraper. But the reality is nobody wants to be there; if you do, kudos. Everyone wants to be on the river, just like paddler Kevin D’Souza [...]
Green Race
Last weekend I had the pleasure of covering the Green River Race in Saluda, North Carolina for the Winston-Salem Journal. For those of ya’ll that don’t know, the Green Race is a 4 to 5 minute kayak race through the gnarliest fare of what the Green River has to offer, including racers getting to “spank [...]