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 →
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 [...]
Read more →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. [...]
Read more →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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Read more →Terrell Sandefur and (Kids) Company
Terrell’s been mentioned here many times, most recently last week when he hosted Mark Brooker’s good-bye party at his downtown Macon gallery, the SoChi. I returned there this afternoon to do a portrait session of him together with his two kids, in search of a photograph for a Macon Food and Culture magazine article on [...]
Read more →On Savannah … and an Anniversary
Three years ago today, I borrowed my friend Gerald’s Canon Digital Rebel to get some “extra” shots from his wedding. It was from that experience, without any doubt, that I realized the potential of today’s digital photography. [And only three years ago. My, how we've grown.... —Ed.] Thus, it’s a great pleasure to use a [...]
Read more →Thank You — to Mom, Macon, and Mark
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 [...]
Read more →Finally, a Party
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 [...]
Read more →On Gardens … and a Derby
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.] [...]
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