Giles Hoover, Photographer

Last week, I mentioned that I was heading off over the holiday to do some hiking in North Carolina. Well, let me tell you: for me, there’s nothing like celebrating independence, whether my own or the nation’s, on the top of a mountain. Especially when it’s sunset, and I happen have a camera handy. From [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Finally, almost current: photographs from a trip this past weekend along the Flint River, near Albany, Georgia. In the spirit of “a slightly different focus,” let me get my favorite shot out of the way immediately: Canoes (with Grass) Yeah. Meanwhile, there was much more to the trip — including a better-than-amazing campground the second [...]

Had an [all-too — Ed.] brief visit to Phillip and Neecee’s this week, in their adopted home of Columbus, Georgia. Better still, we were able to get out for a couple of hours: Spencer Column (Detail) From the Spencer House, a Georgia Trust 2008 Place in Peril. It’s possible, even to see why. Hopefully something [...]