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Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia

At last — in case anyone cares — here is documentation of my trip to West Virginia: eight days of hiking hiking hiking condensed into a six-minute slideshow featuring an appropriately bluegrassy soundtrack. All the photos were taken on Dad’s farm, except when I accidentally wandered off by following the wrong ridge. On my connection the slideshow takes a couple minutes to load, unfortunately. Once it’s ready for you, a little “play” triangle will appear […]

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Alone in the Mountains

I just got back from my first solo backpacking trip. The mountains were magical but not enough to lift me from my funk. Here’s a slideshow I made. It starts at Plumas-Eureka State Park and the nearby Johnsville Cemetery and meanders on up to Rock Lake and environs, where I camped. I put the thing together with software I learned about at a Knight Media training session. It’s called SoundSlides. Its being super-easy to use […]

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Tangled Up In Blue

Hi, friends. Sorry I haven’t written for a long time. I’ve become increasingly aware of how boring this blog is. However, newly returned this afternoon from a short backpacking trip to the Trinity Alps, I will succumb to the desire to show-and-tell. Actually, I don’t feel like writing so I’ll put this up in the form of a gallery with plain old captions. I’ve edited the photos down from 400-plus to 36 images. As you […]

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Photo Help, Please?

If you’re reading this, your opinion matters to me. Even if you never interact with blogs, would you consider weighing in just this once? It would really help (and it’s totally anonymous). Here’s the situation: I’m thinking it might be fun to enter a photo or two into a travel photo contest, though my pix aren’t particularly meritorious. Can you tell me which (if any) of the following twelve possibilities you think might be worthy […]

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