We’ll be at the Dulles Expo Center this weekend for the Spring Craftmens Classics. Our Booth Number is 2208 — turn left when you come in the main entrance, we’ll be in the first booth in the first aisle. Stop by and say hello. The hours are: March 26, 2010– Fri. (10am – 6pm) March 27, 2010– Sat. (10am – 6pm) March 28, 2010– Sun. (10am – 5pm) For additional information, directions and discount coupons click...

The Photograph of the Day is a panoramic view in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you ever visit the GSMNP, make sure you plan a visit to Cades Cove with your camera. The possibilities here seem nearly endless — you can find wildlife, vistas, architecture, macros, close-ups, and textures. It’s a great place to exercise your compositional skills and stretch your...

Wartime Photo Restrictions — New Federal Law to define exactly what pictures you must not take. Does this sound vaguely familiar? This is from the May 1942 edition of Popular Science. You can read the the entire article here. Google books has added two of my favorite monthlies from the past — Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. What better way to wile away the hours in the waiting room at the dentist or doctor. The issues available for Popular Mechanics date from August 1922 to December 2005, and for Popular Science, from December 1925 to March 2009. Just a few links to some articles of...

This is the first sunrise that greeted us on our first visit to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. We had planned our trip to be at the beginning of the season — well before the Salt Water Cowboys had their pony round-up. The pony swim/round-up is probably the most popular event on the island. The popularity of the Chincoteague pony dates, in large part, from the children’s novel Misty of Chincoteague We had the whole place nearly to ourselves, especially at sunrise. And, judging by the number of T-shirts, posters and souvenirs celebrating the size and number of mosquitoes, I think we...

This is the companion to yesterday’s Photograph of the Day. One of the great things about sunrise is that you rarely ever know what’s in store for you on any particular day. This is especially true when you travel 8 hours to get to a location an hour before dawn. Weather and cloud cover predictions are as accurate as always — about a 50% chance of accuracy (to borrow a phrase from the meteorologist’s bag of predictions). If there is no impending or active storm system in an area, I have always found it best to take a chance and make the...

Today’s panorama is the last in this series of portrait orientation panoramas. This is photograph is from an overlook on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. There are not enough visual cues in this one to remind me of which overlook this is. I can narrow it down to an easterly facing overlook in the central section. So the possibilities are Tunnel, Hemlock Springs, or...