Pealing Ad For Fap' Anis

The pealing paint on this old sign advertising the French liqueur and aperitif, Fap' Anis, caught my eye on the exterior wall of an old commercial building in Abbeville, South Carolina. Sadly, the current owners of the building recently painted over the old sign.

In the Pink

Canada Goose
Branta Canadensis
Anderson, South Carolina

Old Log Cabin Window

South Carolina Botanical Garden
Clemson, South Carolina

Campbell's Covered Bridge

Campbell's Covered Bridge, located near Landrum, South Carolina, is the last remaining covered bridge in the state. The bridge was constructed in 1909, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2009.

Swimming for the Gold

Canada Goose
Branta Canadensis
Anderson, South Carolina

Swimming Through an Abstract Painting

I discovered this Canada goose in the late afternoon sun on a small lake full of autumn reflections. It provided a surreal sense of the goose swimming across the canvas of an abstract painting.

Canada Geese at Dusk

The rich colors on the water are reflections from the fall foliage and the sky late in the day.

This shot was made in the early morning with the moon setting over a western treeline, just as the morning sun peeped over the eastern horizon.

Dance of the Watering Cans

While walking through the South Carolina Botanical Garden early this morning, I discovered a group of vividly painted watering cans hanging on hooks from an old, gray and black board fence. From a distance, in shade and poor background light, it appeared that the colorful watering cans were dancing playfully in the darkness. As I moved closer to capture what I had experienced, I intentionally underexposed the shot so that the background would remain virtually black, thereby highlighting and intensifying the magical shapes and colors of the cans. "I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way." Georgia O"Keefe