Beautiful Boone Hall

I have a wedding to shoot soon at Boone Hall Plantation so I needed to do a little advance checking and scope out some special spots for photographing bridal portraits and other important shots.  Not that there is any shortage of beautiful backdrops;  pretty much anywhere you look would do.  Anyway, I took these while I was there.  One of Charleston's finest treasures.

The 2013 Annual Edgewater Bridge Run

The mail carrier had a little trouble trying to make her way through the revelers

Not to be outdone by the Cooper River Bridge Run, our neighborhood hosts their version of the "Welcome to Spring in Charleston" exercise opportunity.  The t-shirts could be confused with the real deal, except this is a 0.1km run; the length of the bridge over the Coburg Creek on the approach to Edgewater Island.  It has become a highly anticipated annual event, and the focal point of much community preparation and entertainment.  Here are a couple of images from this afternoon.  I think the winner was a kid who completed the run in under 10 seconds.

Some Nostalgia

I haven't written for awhile and it isn't because I haven't been taking a lot of photographs.  It's mostly that  the images I've been taking wouldn't be very interesting to most people.  So this evening I went back through my folders and found these that I took a few years ago of Mel Rauton's "Filling Station".  What a great collection of auto memorabilia; a life's work and certainly a passion.  I gave these two images a different look just for fun.

7th Annual Walk for Water on World Water Day

It was forecast to be a wet weekend, but the clouds held up long enough to let this event take place.  So grateful too because of all the hard work that goes into putting on this fundraiser, and because of all the money that is raised for such a great cause.  Here are a few images but if you want to see LOTS more, visit my web gallery here  here

Standing for the National Anthem

Springtime in Magnolia Gardens

I read in photography magazines and blogs about groups who come from all over the country to photograph our plantations in the spring.  They pay airfare and stay in expensive hotels, and here we are able to enjoy them literally on our doorsteps.  It's a 10 minute drive after work on a Friday afternoon.  This was how Magnolia Plantation looked this afternoon.

Spring in my neighborhood

This evening I took my bike and rode around the neighborhood, stopping every so often to photograph whatever caught my eye; colorful spring flowers, ivy on a tree, an overgrown lamp post.  We miss so much when we drive in our cars.  Here are a couple of spring cameos.

Another Evening Stroll Downtown

You just can't beat this weather at the moment, and everything looks particularly lovely during the "blue hour", after the sun has set but while there is still color in the sky.  I was on a mission to photograph gates for a particular project I am working on.  Right now I'm just kind of mapping them out - the ones I want to use, and making notes as to when would be the best time of day to photograph them.  No shortage of gorgeous wrought iron gates in Charleston.  Here are a couple from South Battery, Legare Street and King Street.