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David Alan Harvey, the real deal …

Fourteen other students and myself had the privilege of participating in a Book Publishing Workshop this past weekend in Brooklyn, New York in Mr. Harvey's East River studio.   For those that do not know, David Alan Harvey is an almost septuagenarian photographer of National Geographic and photographic cooperative Magnum legend who still produces, teaches, and engages all around him with a robust enthusiasm. He sees his job, and he tells you up front, as…

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September 24, 2013
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Quality of life experience …

  I subscribe to the Forsyth County (NC) Audubon daily newsletter and was intrigued by a notice yesterday of a group gathering event at Northwest Middle School in Winston-Salem (NC) to witness chimney swifts going to bed.  I had seen this before, after all we have them in our chimney and there are always a couple dead ones which fall out into the firebox when we first open the damper of the wood stove in…

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September 18, 2013
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In honor of Mary Presson Roberts Photography …

  It is so unusual for me to even take a photograph like this, because there are no people in the frame.  But the content was setup for an ad shot for Fleet Feet of Winston Salem and their salesman, Mike Huddleston. During the time I spent arranging the shoes, I kept saying to myself ... "Mary needs to be here taking this" ... Mary needs to be here taking this" ... because this is…

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September 15, 2013
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Mike Huddleston … Fleet Feet shoe meister

Mike Huddleston always wanted to help people train and he had that opportunity when he accepted a job with Fleet Feet of Winston-Salem, NC in 2011. My wife (K.B.) enjoys this store because it reminds her of her community of 20 years at the Nantahala Outdoor Center.  "The people who work here are here because they want to be, and it is their lifestyle." I have observed Fleet Feet's "community building" from a distance and…

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August 20, 2013
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Documentary … “Wanted Alive! Creative Free Time”

 Documentarian and Maestro Burt Westdorp works his magic at the (Mac) keyboard Twenty or more  individuals experienced a virtual  "creative free time"  this past week all week at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies specialty workshop - "Digging In".  A talented faculty of documentary luminaries descended from the four corners of the U.S. mainland and Canada to inspire, conjole, and lead aspirants who took a week out of their lives to raise their game.  The leadership for…

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August 4, 2013
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Pole vaulting down Winston-Salem’s main street …

[portfolio_slideshow] Tim Sullivan is a sports entrepreneur, a consummate advocate for the esoteric culture of pole vaulters and high jumpers. He is also a coach who has a penchant for attracting potential  All-Americans to his quiver.  Tim is in his first season at Wake Forest University having  arrived with a distinguished coaching history at West Virginia University and Oklahoma. Tim Sullivan is an all-inclusive guy, who understands how to make and keep a  sport vigoris,…

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July 16, 2013
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Sharon Roggenbuck …throwing cartwheels and winning triathlons at 74

  [portfolio_slideshow] Sharon started running when she was 40; an activity which came easy to her. Her only pre-athletic activity was equestrian. She won her age group in her first race, a 10K. She was hooked and became a marathon veteran and responded to the triathlon variation when they were becoming popular in the early '80's. For her  first couple of triathlons, she used one of her kid's bikes and swam with a side stroke. Soon,…

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July 4, 2013