Giles Hoover, Photographer

Please note: I’ve been working on Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, literally, all week. It takes time to sort and develop the best of six hundred photographs, and despite being behind on posting, I needed a break. Thanks for bearing with me. Update: 73 more photographs are uploading as I type this — check the gallery [...]

Update: Both the bed race and downtown galleries are now complete (see links below); the parade gallery is in process and should be uploaded Friday. Thanks! Warning: long post ahead. Folks wonder why I’m late with putting stuff up; instead of developing what I already have am behind on, I added 1187 new raw photographs [...]

Falling farther and farther behind on posting. However, if you’ll forgive me, I’m okay with it. This Friday and Satuday, instead of finally finishing up the Maine photographs, perhaps as I should have, I let the camera take me out to see my good friends Phillip and Neecee. She is a doctoral student at Auburn [...]

Appreciated a good time with Tagg and Angelic as hosts of this week’s get-together. As I’ve said so many times before, Cocktail Hour — and the friends it offers up regularly — is one of the reasons I enjoy Macon so much. So, this Friday the thirteenth, I offer up thirteen Cocktail Hour photographs … [...]

My good friend Phillip turned thirty last Friday, and to celebrate, his wife Neecee planned a mystery weekend. The destinations were kept from him right up until — and after — we left on the trip. So where — and what? Friday night, we camped just outside of Dalton, Georgia, near the summit of Dug [...]

Enjoyed an photostroll with Gerald over the weekend, which took us to Jarrell Plantation, a local State Park and Historic Site. We’d been trying to go for years, it seems, and of course they were doing restoration work this winter afternoon. Nonetheless, got some items I like, like this sign: And these gears: See all [...]

Enjoyed some time with Dan and Monica — and the boy — last Friday, resulting in some good photographs. Yes, the boy. Cute alert…: Zook Family #1 Not sure if my favorite of the family shots isn’t this one, though, which is really more about Monica: Zook Family #7 Being Dan’s on a Friday evening, [...]

…at Kevin and Betsy’s last week was, as expected, great. Thanks to everyone for a fantastic time. I said recently that I’m glad to be surrounded by beautiful women. Betsy is definitely amongst that group…: Betsy, Interested One of the images forever imprinted on my brain: Giles, trudging up the side of [a very cold [...]

Gerald and I headed up to Atlanta Friday, mostly to check a specific camera store for some look-and-touch you just can’t get online — and he hit a great deal on something he’d been thinking about for a long time. Thus, instead of spending the day wandering around Atlanta, we finished up our other stops [...]

Enjoyed a great photostroll with Gerald and Phillip last Saturday, starting with a quick stop in Preston, Georgia, followed by a longer-than-expected stop in Plains (home of President Jimmy Carter), Americus, and finally a shorter-than-expected stop in Andersonville. (We settled in just as they closed. Sheesh.) It was especially interesting to visit the Carter visitor’s [...]