The Best Four- Million-Year-Old Creek is the Closest
byChris Foley has traveled the world — from Labrador to Belize to Patagonia — capturing the dynamic energy of rivers and creeks, images that…
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byTrackside Studios closes only two days a year (Thanksgiving and Christmas), and the large windows overlooking the namesake train tracks let in lots of…
Finding the Light in Black and White
byIn 1967, during his senior year at the University of North Carolina, John Dickson took a physics elective. But the class wasn’t about extragalactic…
The Piano, It Looks Like a Carnival
byPiano man Perry Olds isn’t a professional entertainer, but his zeal for making assemblage is rollicking enough. Olds jokes about a keyboard-player friend “who…
The Places You Can Go When There’s No Horizon
by“I wanted to write, but writing is painful,” observes Neil Jacobs, who is making his first appearance at the Beaverdam Studio Tour this month….
What Could be Lower Tech Than a Million-Year-Old Waterfall?
by“Gone fishin’” is often a euphemism for goofing off. And indeed, when photographer Max Cooper first took it up a few years ago, it…
In the Business of Capturing the Fourth Dimension
by“Sometimes I’ve done things that kind of challenge what you think reality is,” says photo artist Steve Trehub. “A lot of it is just…
How to Make a Movie and Still Have a Life
byHad Brad Hoover not wearied of a long commute down the mountain, the Asheville School of Film might never have come to fruition. The…
Career Photographer Has a Lucrative Nesting Instinct
bySince she was a young child helping her father in his darkroom, through middle and high school shooting yearbook and newspaper pictures, working her…
Photographer Shifts His Focus Between Goats and Iron Horses
byJeffrey Stoner became enchanted by photography during childhood, but only began marketing his work in 2004. The images sold well, and in 2007 he…