Home Sweet Home

  Only 48 days left until I get back to San Diego. A photographers dream with the ocean, beaches, Mountains and desert to see and enjoy. It's going to be great to see my Mom and two brothers that still live out there. They are always active and I'll be able to join them in their activities such as luncheons with a performance each Tuesday, Kayak Fishing and camping in the desert. Along with that we will get to spend a lot of quality time together. We don't see much of each other but I have taken the time to get out there once a year. Last year I wound up going there three times the first time was a planned trip when all five brothers were there at the same time for our mothers eightieth birthday. The other two times were not for pleasure. Our youngest brother had a heart attack the day after our mothers birthday and I still had to fly back home on schedule, But I did a turnaround and flew back after one day home. I then spent another three weeks there. A month later he was back in the hospital with serious complications and I flew back as soon as I heard about it. He wound up having a six hour surgery on my birthday and all turned out well. He has now recovered and is doing better then ever. This years I am hoping for a much more relaxing trip and less traumatic. I only have two more planned photography meet ups before I leave and will get some more pictures posted within that time. So for those of you that follow my Flickr site, You will have some more shots to enjoy within the next three weeks. For those of you that only follow this page I will still post a couple of photos from each shoot.
  So you all keep on taking those photos and enjoy the passion of photography.

Car Show

Last week Evelyn and I attended another Car show. I didn't know about this one up until a week before it happened. It was by luck that I found out about this one when I decided to pick up a sandwich at Subway. While they were making my sub I noticed some passes sitting on their counter that were for this car show at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville TN. I usually know when there is a car show anywhere near here but was taken by surprise on this one. Well we made it to the show and found that this one had a super selection of vehicles from classics to race cars and monster trucks.

As usual I got lots of photos at this event and have posted many of them on my Flickr site. I'll post a couple of them here as I normally do, But you should go to my photos on the right side of this page and it will lead you to the flickr page. If you have never been there and you do have a passion for photography, Please go there and see some of my work. You'll find that I look at things differently and have a style that makes me stand out in the automotive photography area. As always I have a couple shots here to share.

Wood Carvers

I had a idea the other day to go out to Townsend and see what they had at the wood carvers. My plan was to get prices on a large chainsaw carved Wolf. Believe it or not, some of the large chainsaw carvings were less then the smaller hand tool carvings. The person working there pointed out that all the detail in the smaller ones can be a whole lot more difficult. It makes total sense. They don't only use chisels, But they use dental tolls as well both power drills and the hand held scrapers. With these tools they can make very fine details like feathers and fur. With the chainsaw the size of the carving is significant but the detail is less. They have no problem with people taking photos there and I'm thinking about going back ( and remember my DSLR camera. Here is a couple of the pictures I took with my point and shot camera. Not as fine and detailed but they do show the creativity of these craftsmen. heres a couple of photos taken. As always you can view many more shots on my Flickr site. Just click on My Photos on the right side of this page. Enjoy and go take some photos. You'll have fun doing it and have the pictures to remember the experience.

 Hand carved indian head. Looks like it was carved from cedar, could have been hickory Aprox,12x20.

This is a chainsaw carved wolf that is 4' tall and comes with a 6' tall indian holding an eagle on his outstretched arm. You can buy it for $8,000.

Relay For Life.

I managed to make it to the "Relay For Life". For those of you that don't know what that is, It is a charity to raise funds for cancer research as well as a way for people to remember those who did not win the battle with cancer. The event was held at the Maryville College in Blount county Tennessee. There was a few hundred people participating in the walk and more running booths to raise more funds for this cause. The luminaries all had the name of someone we have lost to cancer. There was a thirty minutes of silence while all there was was they people walking the path of luminaries. I was so taken by all of this that I did not get too many photos. I'll share a few that I did take below. Please think of the ones you lost or are battling this horrible thing.

 People came from all over to participate in the event. There was even a non female pageant to raise $.

 Many booths around to continue raising more donations.

 Luminaries with names of loved ones that have lost the battle with cancer.

The torches stayed lit thru the 24 hour event. God bless you all.

Awesome Trucks

Back on the 18th of May I drove out to Pigeon Forge TN, to see the "All Ford Super nationals" The focus was on Fords F100 series trucks yet there were other cars there as well. It was a warm dummy day and that helped show some of the reflections from those perfect paint jobs. I spent a few hours there and still did not see everything there was to see. As my regular readers know by now, It's all about photography for me. But, Classic cars are a fascination of mine and they always have been ever since I could walk. Well this was great for me to enjoy both of my passions at one time. It's gets even better for me because there are a couple more car shows coming up soon. Once again I'm going to share a couple of my shots with you again. But, as I always say "Please go to the My Photos link on the right and see a large variety of my work". Or Copy and paste the link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul-clack/

Reenactment

This past weekend was another great opportunity for some action photo shots. Here in the Knoxville area they had a Civil War reenactment. It showed how they dresses, set up camp, and the way they battled back then. As usual I had a great time making it to another wonderful outdoor event that was unique. There was one down side to this whole thing and that was the pain I had to endure by the end of the visit. I was only there for two and a half hours, But that was a very long time for me to be on my feet these days. Yesterday I received a shot in the back and will have two more rounds of this. The goal is to make the back pain more bearable while lowering the amount of pain relievers that I must take. So that's enough of that. Back to the reenactment. There was so much going on that I managed to take 225 photos while there. This gives me a great number of choices when it comes to finding good photos to post. So here we go as usual I am going to add a couple of pictures here for a sample and if you want to see more, you can click on (my photos) on the right side of this page or follow this link. www.flickr.com/photos/paul-clack/. Thanks again for visiting my passion for photography page.

A nice day at the old mill

I made it back to the old mill in Pigeon Forge the other day and managed to get some more beautiful photos. The big surprise was when I was leaving and a couple of nice looking Hot Rods showed up as they stopped in to grab some lunch. I've not posted the mill shots yet, But there are a few nice pictures of the two hot rods posted on my Flickr site. You can get to those by clicking the My photos link on the right side of this page or you can go to (www.flickr.com/photos/paul-clack/). By the time you get there I may have a couple shots of the mill up as well. This weekend will offer a opportunity to see a civil war reenactment in Knoxville. This will give me a chance to take some good action photos and capture the dress and lifestyle of people of that time. I'm looking forward to sharing photos from that event with you. As usual I'll leave a photo for you all to critique. This time I'm only leaving you one shot, so visit the flickr site to see them all.