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“Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.”
Creating and maintaining a photography site—even a personal one—is surprisingly a lot of work. Things never seem to fit the page the way you want them to. You constantly find yourself rearranging text and images randomly until something "clicks," and you achieve that look you didn't know you wanted.
Maryland Renaissance Festival, 2026
A few scenes from the Maryland Renaissance Festival, where history, theater, costumes, music, and a fair amount of cheerful absurdity all collide in the woods. These photos capture some of the characters, details, and atmosphere that make the festival such a wonderfully strange place to spend a day.
A band performs at the Boar’s Head Tavern
A few scenes from the Maryland Renaissance Festival, where history, theater, costumes, music, and a fair amount of cheerful absurdity all collide in the woods. These photos capture some of the characters, details, and atmosphere that make the festival such a wonderfully strange place to spend a day.
Summer Lilies
Water-lily petals can photograph with unusually intense, almost luminous color due to very high pigment concentration, particularly anthocyanins in pink, purple, blue, and red varieties, and carotenoids in yellows. Another reason is that pale cellular layers beneath the pigmented surface can effectively send light through the pigment twice, rather like putting a reflective backing behind colored glass.
A close-up photograph showcases two water lilies in varying stages of bloom.
Photographed at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, this gallery explores the color, texture, and quiet elegance of its renowned water lily collection. In this close-up, two lilies appear at different stages of bloom: a fully opened lavender-and-yellow flower above and a deeper pink, partially closed bloom below.
Floating among green lily pads on dark blue water, the flowers are isolated with a shallow depth of field that softens the background and keeps attention on their delicate forms. Gentle natural light brings out the subtle textures and rich color variations that make Longwood’s water lilies such irresistible photographic subjects.
Water-lily petals can photograph with unusually intense, almost luminous color due to very high pigment concentration, particularly anthocyanins in pink, purple, blue, and red varieties, and carotenoids in yellows. Another reason is that pale cellular layers beneath the pigmented surface can effectively send light through the pigment twice, rather like putting a reflective backing behind colored glass.
Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire
A colorful mix of pageantry, theater, music, and unapologetic historical nonsense, the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire transforms the grounds of Mount Hope Estate in Manheim into a lively 16th-century village. This gallery captures the costumed performers, jousting, street characters, musicians, artisans, and wonderfully eccentric visitors who make the Faire such a rich place to photograph.
A musical performance takes place on a wooden stage built around trees. Performers in Renaissance-era clothing sing and play instruments like guitars and drums.
A colorful mix of pageantry, theater, music, and unapologetic historical nonsense, the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire transforms the grounds of Mount Hope Estate in Manheim into a lively 16th-century village. This gallery captures the costumed performers, jousting, street characters, musicians, artisans, and wonderfully eccentric visitors who make the Faire such a rich place to photograph.
WWII Weekend, Pennsylvania
Every June, the quiet airport in Reading, Pennsylvania stops pretending to be an airport and briefly becomes 1944. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's WWII Weekend is part airshow, part living history exhibit, and part time machine fueled by avgas and nostalgia. Warbirds fill the sky, military vehicles rumble across the grounds, swing music drifts through the crowds, and hundreds of reenactors recreate the sights and sounds of a world that feels both distant and uncomfortably recent.
Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” Replica – Tora 101: The Warbird Factory.
Every June, the quiet airport in Reading, Pennsylvania, stops pretending to be an airport and briefly becomes 1944. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's WWII Weekend is part airshow, part living history exhibit, and part time machine fueled by avgas and nostalgia. Warbirds fill the sky, military vehicles rumble across the grounds, swing music drifts through the crowds, and hundreds of reenactors recreate the sights and sounds of a world that feels both distant and uncomfortably recent.
These photographs are a few moments from this remarkable weekend: the aircraft, the people who keep these stories alive, and the small details that remind us history isn't just something preserved behind glass. Sometimes it taxis past you, radial engines growling, while someone in period uniform points the way. Human beings do love finding increasingly elaborate methods of remembering the past. In this case, it's hard not to be grateful for it.
Winterthur, Delaware
Winterthur in April sits right at that brief, perfect edge between early spring restraint and full-blown bloom. The gardens wake up in layers—azaleas, magnolias, and fresh green canopies unfolding across the rolling landscape—while the estate still carries a quiet, almost private feel before peak season crowds take over. These images capture that in-between moment: soft light, saturated color, and the sense that everything is just beginning to stretch out again after winter.
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Delaware
Winterthur in April sits right at that brief, perfect edge between early spring restraint and full-blown bloom. The gardens wake up in layers—azaleas, magnolias, and fresh green canopies unfolding across the rolling landscape—while the estate still carries a quiet, almost private feel before peak season crowds take over. These images capture that in-between moment: soft light, saturated color, and the sense that everything is just beginning to stretch out again after winter.
Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania
Longwood Gardens in April doesn’t bother with subtlety. It goes all in. Tulips, flowering trees, and entire beds arranged like someone obsessed over every color decision—which, to be fair, they did. The place feels engineered to impress, but somehow still pulls off moments that don’t feel staged: light cutting through the conservatory glass, reflections sitting perfectly still, paths that make you forget there are crowds five minutes away. These images lean into that mix—precision and spectacle, with the occasional quiet corner if you know where to look.
Longwood Gardens’ Peirce du Pont House, Pennsylvania
Longwood Gardens in April doesn’t bother with subtlety. It goes all in. Tulips, flowering trees, and entire beds arranged like someone obsessed over every color decision—which, to be fair, they did. The place feels engineered to impress, but somehow still pulls off moments that don’t feel staged: light cutting through the conservatory glass, reflections sitting perfectly still, paths that make you forget there are crowds five minutes away. These images lean into that mix—precision and spectacle, with the occasional quiet corner if you know where to look.
Hillbilly Days Festival, Kentucky
Hillbilly Days in Pikeville isn’t polished, and that’s kind of the whole point. It’s loud, crowded, a little chaotic, and completely unapologetic—music spilling into the streets, people leaning hard into the spirit of the thing, and more characters per square foot than most towns see in a year. Somewhere between the humor, the costumes, and the noise, you get something real: a slice of Appalachian culture that doesn’t care if it makes sense to outsiders. These images catch that energy—raw, a bit absurd, and very much alive.
Hilbilly Days Festival, Pikeville, Kentucky
Hillbilly Days in Pikeville isn’t polished, and that’s kind of the whole point. It’s loud, crowded, a little chaotic, and completely unapologetic—music spilling into the streets, people leaning hard into the spirit of the thing, and more characters per square foot than most towns see in a year. Somewhere between the humor, the costumes, and the noise, you get something real: a slice of Appalachian culture that doesn’t care if it makes sense to outsiders. These images catch that energy—raw, a bit absurd, and very much alive.
Smokey Mountains, NC
Mist and memory hang thick over the Smoky Mountains, where ridgelines fade like old film and light moves slower than anywhere else on the East Coast. The Blue Ridge Parkway winds through it all—miles of asphalt wrapped in forest, fog, and the kind of silence that hums. This photo series isn’t about grand overlooks; it’s about the in-between moments—early fog, late light, and the stubborn beauty of a place that refuses to stay still.
Smokey Mountains Mangalista River Ranch, Waynesville, North Carolina
Mist and memory hang thick over the Smoky Mountains, where ridgelines fade like old film and light moves slower than anywhere else on the East Coast. The Blue Ridge Parkway winds through it all—miles of asphalt wrapped in forest, fog, and the kind of silence that hums. This photo series isn’t about grand overlooks; it’s about the in-between moments—early fog, late light, and the stubborn beauty of a place that refuses to stay still.
Overland Expo East, 2025
Overland Expo East is the East Coast’s big weekend gathering for overland and adventure enthusiasts. It brings together gear vendors, tech demos, hands-on classes, and a community of campers and rig builders under the fall skies of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Whether you’re after inspiration, networking, or good stories in the dirt, East is where the overland world shows up.
Overland Expo East, 2025, Arrington, Virginia.
Overland Expo East is the East Coast’s big weekend gathering for overland and adventure enthusiasts. It brings together gear vendors, tech demos, hands-on classes, and a community of campers and rig builders under the fall skies of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Whether you’re after inspiration, networking, or good stories in the dirt, East is where the overland world shows up.
Pennsylvania RenFest, August 2025
Nothing screams “authentic medieval experience” like sipping overpriced mead while a guy in polyester chainmail yells about turkey legs. The Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival is equal parts time-travel fantasy and county fair chaos—actors hamming it up, blacksmiths pounding away for tips, and more corsets than an HBO casting call. It’s kitsch, sure, but it’s also vibrant, hilarious, and oddly photogenic. Perfect place to aim a lens and capture people who are somehow dead serious about pretending it’s 1585 in the middle of Lancaster County.
The Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival
Nothing screams “authentic medieval experience” like sipping overpriced mead while a guy in polyester chainmail yells about turkey legs. The Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival is equal parts time-travel fantasy and county fair chaos—actors hamming it up, blacksmiths pounding away for tips, and more corsets than an HBO casting call. It’s kitsch, sure, but it’s also vibrant, hilarious, and oddly photogenic. Perfect place to aim a lens and capture people who are somehow dead serious about pretending it’s 1585 in the middle of Lancaster County.
