Giles Hoover, Photographer

Update: Links fixed. Sorry for the error! It’s after midnight Friday, and the promised Garden Tour photographs haven’t been posted yet. Sorry. As if that’s not bad enough, last night — my first available photo-editing time since getting back in town — was spent out and about, first at Cocktail Hour, then at Mark Brooker’s [...]

Significantly behind again; yet another of those eighty-hour work weeks prevented me from getting to last weekend’s photographs before now. Thankfully, I was able to finish up the Thomasson Kentucky Derby Party before being out of the office for a long weekend. Please expect the Gardens photographs, at long last, Wednesday or Thursday. In the [...]

Enjoyed this Saturday on two fronts, starting with a tour of four of Macon’s gardens — taking, as usual, a slightly different focus: Flowers with Paper Background Shredded paper as mulch. Great recycling goin’ on here…! Then, next door, caught one of those photographs — which also happens to include a [very tiny — Ed.] [...]

Enjoyed Cocktail Hour this evening at Kim Wold’s. As my “official” Cocktail Hour postings go, it’s the second in a row for her — but there have been three in the interim that I have not been able to get to. Sorry. Meanwhile, many thanks to Kim for hosting. (Again.) And a familiar-yet-still-cute boy, who [...]

I’ve been way behind on my to-do list recently, which, rather obviously, includes blogging. Many apologies. Last weekend, rather than take the time to blog, catch up, clean, or anything else, I took an opportunity to clear my head with a longer-than-usual road trip. Part of it was supposed to result in a very cool [...]

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 … [...]

Enjoyed the first Cocktail Hour of the year tonight, courtesy of Dan and Monica — whose ability to draw a crowd remains without parallel. I’d estimate 50+ people, including more than a few new faces. Welcome. Meanwhile, got approximately 25 photographs from this first-of-2009 gathering, which will be posted tomorrow. Update: posted. Enjoy. As a [...]

As my blog readers know, I’ve been having some equipment problems recently. For Independence Day, however, my camera raised a flag and celebrated the long-overdue Unity — out of 446 photographs Friday (taken in about three hours of straight shooting), I kept 309, starred 185, and multi-starred 90. Remarkable. More: The first four-star images in, [...]

Catching up with a few photos, this time from a get-together on Magnolia Street, June 7th: Connor’s Pool Time Updated the Magnolia Street Mob gallery, along with adding the new photos to the Kids collection. Meanwhile, there’s a Cocktail Hour on Magnolia Street tomorrow, so please expect some more additions probably Friday. Thanks!

Just want the photos? Go here. Otherwise, read on. Photographed a Kentucky Derby Party for friends Pam and Dick Thomasson tonight. As expected — and as usual with the good folks in Macon — it was a great time. Thanks, Pam, for the invite. Pam (in Derby Hat) Several people asked me this evening how [...]