Here are a few more of my favorite photographs from northwest Georgia.
From 1970 to 1987 we lived just a few miles from the old Gray's Mill at Graysville in Catoosa County and visited the site often by car or on our bicycles. We were saddened when we learned that the mill had burned, either by vandals or careless campers. It was a beautiful and peaceful place. Some years ago a three-story house was built on the mill ruins.
Ricky's Trees. Daugherty Gap Road, McLemore Cove.
For the last several years we lived on Deer Run Farm, an older man named Ricky Smith lived on our property and helped with maintenance. We learned that when he was a young man he had helped plant these trees that line the road through Mountain Cove Farm in McLemore Cove.
Lula Falls. Rock Creek Canyon on Lookout Mountain, Walker County.
On the east side of Lookout Mountain, just a few miles south of the Tennessee-Georgia line and the city of Chattanooga, magnificent Lula Falls thunders down 120 feet into Rock Creek Canyon.
The falls and Lula Lake and Cascade, just a few hundred yards upstream, are now part of the Lula Lake Land Trust, a non-profit organization which seeks to preserve and protect approximately
8,000 contiguous acres on Lookout Mountain.
1941 (I think) Ford pickup. Keith Road, Catoosa County.
When I lived in northwest Georgia's Catoosa County, I frequently took a camera or two and went on a Sunday afternoon ramble. I found this old truck on Keith Road in the southeastern part of the county. It's always been one of my favorite old car photos.
Boynton Beauty Salon. Old Georgia Highway 2, Catoosa County.
Another of my Sunday afternoon ramble photos. This is my favorite not-so-subtle visual pun and clearly speaks for itself. As the late, great Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a whole lot just by lookin'." (Did you know that he is the most quoted person in the English language?)
Bottom's Up! Berry College campus, Floyd County.
I was working on a book about Rome, Georgia for their Chamber of Commerce in 1980 when I found these bottom-feeding swans in a pond on the Berry College campus.
The book project was ultimately scrapped, but I got paid. And I also came out with this and several other photos worth keeping.
About the equipment: Four of these photographs were made on film. Gray's Mill was photographed on Kodak Ektachrome with a Rolliecord of Yashica twin-lens reflex. An Olympus OM camera was used for the Old Ford Pickup and Bottoms Up!; Kodachrome film for the truck and Ektachrome for the swans. Ricky's Trees were photographed with a Canon EOS 5D Classic and Canon EF 70-200mm f4L lens, and Lula Falls with a Fuji X-Pro1 and Fujicron XF 27mm lens.
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