Stories, photographs, travel notes, and safari reflections from Doug & Marcy

Rainbow Row is difficult to shoot!

Located on East Bay Street in Charleston, South Carolina, Rainbow Row is a stretch of 13 Georgian-style row homes painted in bright pastels.  The area is a must-see for visitors, where architecture, colors, flower boxes wrought-iron accents and balconies combine for a great scene.  However, capturing a wide street view all but impossible. Construction dumpsters, […]

Hunting Island Boneyard Beach

A “Boneyard beach” is the popular term for the driftwood or weathered remains of shoreline trees that have fallen from an eroding maritime forest. They are often strewn like a sculpture of limbs as they gradually wash into the ocean. We visited Hunting Island State Park near Beaufort, South Carolina yesterday and found just such […]

Avenue of Oaks

On a whim, Marcy declared that we should turn down a particular side road off US 21 near Beaufort, South Carolina.  “I have a photographer nudge,” she said.  What?  “A photographer nudge, is my word for intuition about directions for a potential shot.  Coffin Point Road sounds like such a place.”  I complied and we […]

THE NEW COZY

The Majestic B&B in Leadville, Colorado has now taken first place as the “Most Cozy” stay we have ever experienced. I won’t catalog the other great experiences we’ve had, but this one took me quite by surprise. I confess that I associated the name “Leadville” with a place that was gray, gritty and unattractive, but […]

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG …

  In anticipation of this trip, I suffered high anxiety about driving around the high mountains of Colorado in the dead of winter, but after watching the weather report, I breathed a sigh of relief and figured we had escaped any difficulties. — But the weather report was wrong. Our three-part trip featured the Rocky […]

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