All Roads Lead to China
(photograph taken on Franklin Street between Columbia and Henderson streets in Chapel Hill)
Pick Up Lines
This blunt-nose beauty seen in Chapel Hill is like a metaphor for Americana. The Chevrolet Apache half-ton pickup with its iconic curved body lines remains a distinct classic more than 50 years since its introduction. In 1958, the 6-cylinder light duty truck was designed with quad headlamps and wrap-around windshields -- an industry first -- intended to give drivers more visibility. Original price of the base model ran about $2,300 in 1958. Today, upwards of $50,000 in pristine condition.
(photograph taken off of Battle Lane in Chapel Hill)
Can You Dig It?
(photograph taken on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill)
Light Painting
Imagine reaching into the sky and plunging a dip pen into the phosphorescent arcs of fireworks streams, then painting across the sky. In lieu of the pen, use the camera lens to stretch these colors into swirls and sweeps, gushes and drizzles. This technique is called painting with light and occurs when a light source is in motion while taking a long exposure photograph.
(photographs taken of fireworks over Governors Club in Chapel Hill)
Under the Banner
“I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
The banners in the above two images appeared for a brief time during Carrboro's July 4th Celebration near the corner of Greensboro and Weaver streets in Carrboro. Below, two images of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's confederate soldier, dubbed Silent Sam, partially cloaked in a white wrap after the controversial statue was defaced with graffiti reading "black lives matter," "KKK" and "murderer." Media news outlets peppered the lawn near the statue, which was erected in 1913 as a tribute to UNC alumni who died in the Civil War and also UNC students who fought on the side of the Confederacy.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Silent Sam controversial statue of confederate soldier dubbed Silent Sam.
(photographs taken in Carrboro and Chapel Hill)
Carrboro: Faces of the Fourth
(photographs taken at the Carrboro July 4th Celebration at on Weaver Street down to Town Hall)
Road Trip: Carolina Beach at Dark
(photographs taken at Carolina Beach, NC, about a 2.5-hour drive from Chapel Hill/Carrboro on 1-40)
Sidewalk Swingin'
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white, and there the sun burns crimson bright, and there the moon-bird rests from his flight to cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black and the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow and watch where the chalk-white arrows go to the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, and we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go, for the children, they mark, and the children, they know, the place where the sidewalk ends.”
(photograph taken on the sidewalks adjacent to Weaver Street in Carrboro)
Live Art: Command Performance
Flecks, streaks and arcs dart across a blank mat board as artist Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski paints among a backdrop of spectators and a rumbling band. Crouch. Head tilt. Lean. A live performance emerges as the artist's bold colors flash across the surface of the large-scale piece....culminating in a rendering, worthy of a bow.
(photographs taken at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro)
Pour Out Soul
“Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level. And that’s never going to get lost.”
Rhonda Robichaux's (above) striking voice, rich in soul, charges across a crowded lawn at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro. She and her band perform again in Carrboro on Independence Day.
(photographs taken at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro)
Glorious Indeed
(photograph taken at Town Hall off on Main Street in Carrboro)
Head and Shoulders Above
(photograph taken at The Lumina theatre in Southern Village in Chapel Hill)
Train of Thought
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
(photograph of Southern Rail located at 201-C East Main Street, the corner of Main and Weaver streets in Carrboro)
By a Nose
BowBarr's long-lashed, mustached "Carrboro Man" mural juts out by a nose around the corner of the building located at 705 West Rosemary Street in Carrboro. It was created by local artist Scott Nurkin in 2013 whose cadre of signature murals around town include Greetings from Chapel Hill (off of Rosemary Street near Colombia Street in downtown Chapel Hill), and the newly painted Dean Smith mural (off of Smith Level Road and US 15-501 in Chapel Hill near the Orange/Chatham county line).
(photograph taken off of Rosemary Street in Carrboro)
Porch Sittin': Relax and Watch the World Unravel
(photograph taken near the corner of Rosemary and Main streets in Carrboro)
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
(photograph taken of Salon 2eleven on the corner of Main and Lloyd streets in Carrboro)
Open Eye While We Get Our Shut Eye
(photograph taken late night at Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro off of S. Greensboro and Robertson streets in Carrboro. The coffeehouse is open until 11 p.m. every night except Friday and Saturday when it opens until midnight.)
Rise as the Sun Goes Down
The couple was celebrating an anniversary with an evening balloon ride over the Chatham County countryside. The balloon lifted at about 7pm Friday from a field in Silk Hope and floated West. Estimated travel is about 5 miles with calm winds.
(photographs taken via i-phone in Silk Hope, NC about 40 minutes southwest of Carrboro/Chapel Hill in Chatham County.)
Crooks Through the Back Door
(photographs taken of Crook's Corner Restaurant on the corner of Franklin Street and N Merritt Mill Road in Chapel Hill)
ClydeFEST Folk Art Fun: The Moments
(photographs taken at the 14th annual ClydeFEST in Bynum, NC just south of Chapel Hill/Carrboro towards Pittsboro)