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I was fortunate …

I was fortunate to have attended the "Documentary Summit" in Raleigh this past weekend with seminars led by experts in the documentary arts.   The experience will help me do a better job of celebrating others.  The workshop sponsored by Trailblazers Studios  offered a unique opportunity to connect, share, learn and collaborate.   This is the scene that I encountered after returning from lunch.  It could not have been more set up for a rapid fire iPhone photo.

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November 19, 2012
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27,848 feet waiting for the trigger …

The annual Savannah Rock and Roll Marathon, which winds through the many parks and neighborhoods in downtown Savannah (GA), begins with the pull of a trigger and the rise of the sun.  The start is not all at once, but in waves of a thousand at 45 second intervals.  The number of participants were half the number of feet.

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November 6, 2012
A Breed Apart / Journal / Multimedia

A Breed Apart

Pat Land left a professional career of dance and theater to pursue her dream Comments: Karen Hoyer - I felt like I was at the farm .... Pat was a huge inspiration for me in my life & career, her spirit will ALWAYS inspire me. This is a beautiful portrait -- thank you for making it and sharing it. Donna Powell - captures the 'true' you ....  Zelle - thats beautiful,  you have shown me all the…

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November 5, 2012
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A champion falls …

It should no  surprise that the eastern hemlock was my favorite tree growing up.  It ALWAYS provided shade for those trout streams that I fished with my father, ALWAYS embraced the cold and deep swimming hole where I swam as a kid, and ALWAYS  with verdant comfort dotted the winter  landscape scenery of the Blue Ridge Parkway.  When they began to die off in my  backyard of Haywood County, I felt for the first time my own impending mortality.  What…

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September 24, 2012
Mr. Morton is still alive on the mountain …
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Mr. Morton is still alive on the mountain …

While attending one of the 60th anniversary events for Grandfather Mountain's swinging bridge, both of Mr. Hugh Morton's daughters were there. Catherine (Morton) said to me, "Houck, with your being here with your camera, I feel like my dad  never left the mountain." With an instant lump in my throat, and a tear in my eye, I said, "Catherine, with you and your sister, Judy, looking so much like your dad and being present at…

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August 27, 2012
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They call me “The Corn Man” …

Larry Chamber's family in Haywood County (NC) has been farming for years, and their farm (Chambers Farm Market) has some of the best bottom land in the county.  Local citizens patiently wait  for his first corn crop --- which is displayed in an appealing produce market style on the back of his flat-bed farm truck at the "corn corner" of Lake Logan Road and U.S. 276 in the "up-river" Bethel community of Canton, NC. "We…

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August 26, 2012