Giles Hoover, Photographer

Calvin and Allison celebrated their new home last Saturday, and were kind enough to invite me — and my camera. Exploring someone’s house with my camera is one of my favorite activities. When it’s filled with interesting stuff, it’s even better: Joined (in Modern Presentation) The simple stuff works, too: Paper Lamp And they have [...]

I embarked on “some work on the house” about seven months ago now. Somewhere in there, it turned into a major remodel. We started around the first of October, with a tight schedule aiming for Thanksgiving. Within a couple of weeks, we were hoping for the New Year. Then January, then February. Things were mostly [...]

Let me please lead off with an — or, should I say, another — apology for taking so long. Since getting home from Maine, absolutely nothing has gone according to plan. Well, in reality since long before that … but that’s another story. (Which I might even share someday…;) Meanwhile, visible progress on the house [...]

…I note the passing of singer and civil rights activist Odetta. Had the honor of seeing her live once (many moons ago, now), and will definitely be doing some listening today. Next post Friday or Saturday soon. Have a good week — and thanks for checking back.

Back in the day, photographers like Ansel Adams were part of something called Group f/64. Go ahead and read that if you’re not familiar. I’ll wait…;) Now, dare I suggest I’m in that sort of company? No, certainly not. But one can have aspirations. But “aspirations” also suggests similarity. Ansel Adams produced these amazing, long-view [...]

As I’ve said many times, one of the primany reasons I live in Macon is the people I’ve come to know and appreciate. Case in point: Thanksgiving. I’m delighted to be amongst friends here in Macon. As one of those friends, Dan (who happened to host today’s get-together), assured another guest earlier tonight, I can [...]

Was in Columbus for a job last week — that, unfortunately, was postponed at the last minute. Will hopefully be heading back later this week to do that job. Meanwhile, Phillip and I took the time we’d planned on taking photographs to … take photographs. We wandered around downtown and riverside on an exceptionally pleasant [...]

In Maine, that is: Ogunquit Beach, Across the River The view from my room. Not too shabby, even in extreme wide-angle…;) More over the next few weeks days. Thanks for checking back. Update: ‘Nuther, from Sunday: Perkins Cove Boats, Ogunquit Definitely some emotion in this, well, homecoming (for lack of a better term). I didn’t [...]

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, [...]

This post has lurked about unseen for a couple of days because I hit “save” instead of “publish.” Sorry. Over Mother’s Day, I enjoyed a visit to Florida. As we all know, here in Macon, things weren’t so pleasant — and, at the time, I concentrated on things at home rather than the photographs from [...]