Author: WmX

I stumbled off the track to success in 1968, started chasing shadows that summer. Since then, In addition to farm-laborer and newspaper photographer my occupational incarnations include dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, CAT scan technologist, computer worker and politico (whatever it takes to buy a camera.) I am on the road to understanding black and white photography.

totem animal

gas station totemic animal
Car runs better with a bear, raccoon in the tank. I have a faint memory of US gas stations and their representative animals “put a tiger in your tank”.

65th Annual Dogwood Festival Parade

Buster Ball of Putt Putt
The annual Rorschach test, the Dogwood Festival Parade, took to the streets yesterday. What makes a parade? Fine looking people in uniforms, dresses, martial music, hillbilly music.

chip harding
Many of my favorite law enforcement officials and politicians participated in the parade.

pepsi figures
Buster Ball, the spokesphere for Putt-Putt was followed by the Mountain Dew can with hands. While employing images
that have a national profile many of the companies participating in the parade have deep local roots.
The Jessups of our local Pepsi had a long interest in Riverview.


Charlottesville is the crazy salad without trying.

Little Miss Scottsville
Little Miss Scottsville
Last year’s parade

cropping

pine

tree in situ

in glorious color
エッカ石油（株） 屋宜原給油所
501-2 Yagibaru, Kitanakagusuku, Nakagami District, Okinawa 901-2304, Japan

day of rest

church okinawa
United International Christian Faith Center, Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, Bishop Terrence W. Carr, 26.32791N 127.77018E