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This landscape is from Western North Carolina close to the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway at Waterrock Knob Overlook. Years ago a parkway ranger described the Blue Ridge Parkway like this: “The only national park that connects two other national parks.” I have been fortunate to travel the entire length of the parkway and have been able to enjoy it for almost five decades.

I'm a North Carolina photographer that moved to Oregon in 2018. My interest in photography started with a Christmas present in 1963, a Kodak Instamatic 100. What thrill for a nine-year-old. Looking back at those blurry and erratically exposed photographs I still feel the excitement of using it and I still have the camera. My real aha moment was in the 6th grade. My teacher brought in an inexpensive plastic darkroom kit one day for a class project. We spent the whole day taking photographs and developing them; I still have that first photograph I ever printed. As my interest grew the collection of cameras and darkroom equipment grew. I became involved in my high school yearbook and helped design the yearbook department's first darkroom. ...