A Slightly Different Focus
Photography by Giles Hoover
A long-time book designer, Giles is known for finding amazing details in everyday scenes. The phrase, "a slightly different focus" is used to describe his style in portraiture, event photography, and More →
MagTard: The Recording Session
Sorry for the quiet; been running, running in about fifteen directions the past few months — most of them not near the web site. More on that in a few weeks. Meanwhile….
Enjoyed the heck out of a session with the local band MagTard last week. Posted up a few photographs yesterday, but am only now [...]
Thrice Into the Looking Glass: Independence Day, 2009
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 the [...]
Miles’ Birthday Party
Note: Been offline for a while; besieged with computer hard-drive problems and complications regarding the house work. Worse, I’ve written — and lost — the Snapshots post twice now, with a third, partially-completed attempt currently saved as a draft. Will try to get back to before the holiday weekend, but in any case, Happy Independence [...]
Read more →More MagTard: Practice
This past week, I got a chance to visit a MagTard practice session — specifically such that I could take some photographs of the band at work.
It was in the Zook’s “band room,” and usually for a practice, the front curtains were open. That was at my request, such that with a fast lens and [...]
On Cocktails, Cars, and (Cute) Cats
Settling in for a long weekend in front of the computer, starting with a combined photography post — involving all of the items mentioned in the title: cocktails, cars, and some “new” cute cats. Four Cs, posted up.
Okay!
Working backwards, I took literally a dozen photographs at Cocktail Hour last night; I don’t know whether I [...]
GTI Nirvana
Last weekend, I very much enjoyed being out and about doing photography.
At the same time — and to me perhaps the only thing better — I got to run the GTI down one of America’s greatest roads: the Blue Ridge Parkway.
My car is over-equipped for most of the roads it encounters. A GTI is the [...]
MagTard Candids
I’ve been out and about recently, but arrived back in town just in time to meet up with the friends that make up the band called Magnificent Bastard.
Except that isn’t correct any more; there’s a new drummer, whom I didn’t know, and an “official” name change to go with that switch — to MagTard.
Can’t say [...]
Cocktails: Short but Sweet
Enjoyed Cocktail Hour this past Thursday with my good friends Miles and Trish, who hosted the get-together in their Magnolia Street home.
Also appreciated the house cat, Pablo, for not only putting up with the crowd, but participating — mostly:
Photographs of Pablo bookend the fifteen-photograph set, but there’s also good stuff in the middle. Like this:
Love [...]
Read more →The Long-Lost Garden Tour
Finished up the Garden Tour photographs on Tuesday, then wound up uploading them several times to correct timeouts, misnaming, and other problems. Finally, though, 168 photographs in all grace the gallery.
It’s flowers, sure:
And a reminder that some of these are actual gardens:
What I like perhaps even more on a tour like this are not the [...]
Read more →Another (Great) Detour
I’m working on the Garden Tour photographs this weekend, but couldn’t resist a dinner invitation from my good friends Miles and Trish. Before I knew it, there was a set of photographs ready to be uploaded.
Including several of the official “Magnolia Boy:”
Connor’s (Extreme) Close-Up
He likes to grab the camera and stick his face into the [...]
