I took a trip to the Philly Zoo with a few cameras and a gaggle of kids. We had a good time, and I got some fun photos. Hope you enjoy them.

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A few shots I snapped out of the car window while traveling through Lancaster.

This Amish Man was plowing his fields using a Mule team. You don't see much of that anymore.

Theses are just a few photos from around my home. I live in Rural Alabama, we grow a reasonably sized garden every year, and at the right times it can be absolutely captivating.

This is the view off of my back porch. Past the gravel driveway is a field where my Neighbor grazes a few cows and sheep. There are hanging Gords to house birds and bats, which help keep bugs off of our gardens. Small tin shack where the livestock is penned up, and the trees cut in, never letting you forget that you live on a mountain. Sunset is a good time here.

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This car had a mile deep paint job. Was absolutely gorgeous. I really enjoy the reflection of the pavement in this image. Automobiles and Roads, forever linked.

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I took a visit to a local shrine. It was all hand made by a priest, in the name of Jesus. I’m not religious, but all of the miniature work he did was amazing. Much of it was with found and donated materials. Hope you enjoy the visuals.

This was a miniature of the Roman Colliseum.

This was no more than a Foot wide.

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This was a photo I took for a practice project on the WholeWhyWorld.com forums. The theme was “Golden Hour” which is the first or last hour of the day, at which point the direction and quality of natural light is at its absolute best for taking photos. When I produced this, I was asked if it was taken with a camera phone. Haha.

I stood in the woods at my place for nearly an hour, waiting on the sun to rise so I could capture the colors of the sky as it did. I am not someone who has ever been particularly scared of the dark. I find standing in the woods in the pitch black absolutely terrifying though.

I grew up in a heavily populated area, there was always light. Light posts, porch lights, headlights, cops patrolling. Now I live in the middle of nowhere and it gets pitch black out here, and you’re in the woods, and people are not very close. Standing in the dark hearing things in the woods knowing that they’re not human, and I can’t see them.

So when the sun started to rise it felt more like a huge wave of relief washing over me. More like the overexposure, in my head. Burning off all of those unknowns lurking in the unseen. Kind of euphoric. Fifteen seconds of light pouring into the camera, washing out all traces of darkness.

Not that it really matters, it’s just an overexposed picture. For what it’s worth, I took one that I felt was perfectly exposed. Capturing the warmth of the sun just before is rises into view, and the gradient into the sky which 180 degrees away is complete darkness. I took that picture, but it just didn’t mean as much.