Student Portrait

(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)

Portrait, college student.

Robbie Coble

Neighbor Robbie Coble in his garage. Recent commercial shoot.

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Sunflower

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Image from the backyard. My wife likes to mix sunflowers among the vegetables in our garden for the color and for the benefit of the local bird population.

On the Construction Site

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Commercial workwear image.

Tobacco Pack House

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Tobacco pack house, Durham County, North Carolina.

Bird Dogs

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Bird dogs in black and white.

Chevy Details

Images from a recent car show.

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Fashion on the Tracks

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Men's commercial fashion image.

Oriental Harbor Sunrise

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Oriental, North Carolina. File this image under "places I would like to be right now".

Pressing Cane

Sorghum pressing time at my neighbor Gary McMasters. A few images as Gary's crew runs cane through the mill to make juice to be cooked into molasses.

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Farmall M Revisited

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Farmall M tractor. A different edit on recent subject.

Shiitake Mushrooms

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Shiitake mushrooms courtesy of The Goat Lady CSA in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Coffee Break

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Adrian Staley takes a break yesterday from pressing sorghum in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

A Ride in the Past

Neighbor Reece Amick from Grays Chapel, North Carolina was working on an Model A Ford and took it out for a test drive yesterday.

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Portrait in Old Greensboro

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Portrait near my studio in Old Greensboro, North Carolina.

Muscadines

Darrel and Tammy Smith are raising several varieties of muscadine grapes on their farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. They pick them for both table use and wine. Muscadines are the only grapes native to the Southeastern United States, and include the brown variety folks often call scuppernongs. Their vineyard is located on the slopes of Caudle's Mountain, one of the most scenic spots in Randolph County.

(Photographs copyright 2011 by Dan Routh.

Native American Photographs

Technology has had a profound effect on how we approach photography these days. Black and white film required processing and lab work to produce a finished image. Transparency film, which was the mainstay of my commercial work, meant I had to shoot everything as a finished image. Post-processing a slide meant a lot of trouble and expense. Enter the digital photograph. It's still important to shoot things right to begin with, but post-processing allows us to take images in different directions after the fact. Photographs can be revisited and re-processed. These photographs are from a series I shot a while back of dancers at a Native American pow wow in Greeensboro with a little tweeking from the original versions.

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Corn Harvest

Neighbors Joe Capps, Sr. and his son Joe, Jr. were hard at work today combining corn. It's been dry and hot this summer and the corn crop isn't the best around here, but the harvest goes on anyway. Jack Fagg came in behind the combine with a rotary mower chopping the left over stalks so it will be easier to get the ground ready to plant grain in the fall.

Lineman in B&W

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Image from a commercial workwear shoot.

Julian Farm Houses

Two farmhouses near Julian, North Carolina.

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Mountain Mist

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Mist rises from a valley below the Blue Ridge Parkway at sunrise near Boone, North Carolina.

Though perhaps not as majestic as say the Rockies, the Appalachian Mountains and the Blue Ridge in particular are special nonetheless. The drive down the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and North Carolina is one of the most spectacular in the country. 

James Tristan Routh, Esq.

Today my son Tristan in special session of NC District 19B Court was sworn into the Randolph County Bar by the Honorable James P. Hill, Jr.

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Peppers and Bowl on the Green Table

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Still life of peppers in a bowl. Variation on an earlier theme.

Afternoon at the Sawmill

Neighbor Gary McMasters saws lumber recently at his sawmill in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.