And then again………

Isn’t photography great!?  This morning my alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. yep, O:Dark thirty!!  I first showered and then drove the 35 minutes to the beach for our morning shoot with horses.  Met with the great folks that were riding for us, and providing the horses, and then waited for my participants to show up.  I was joined by Chris Klapheke, great shooter, owner of Outdoor Photo Gear, and my new friend, and my co-counsel, as it were!  The 14 people that attended our session were fantastic, really nice folks who had a good time inspite of absolutely awful light!  Which is why I got permission from the people putting on the event, to have them join me again on a better morning, either Friday or Sunday!!!  So we shot some horses, had some fun, and then moved on!

……and then again, we shot some early morning trees!

……and then again, driving back to the hotel to post this blog entry, I saw a tourist trap called the Oldest Store, which considering St. Augustine is the oldest city in America, it was worth the nine bucks to see what it was…….   $9. well spent!!  This was the original general store serving the young city of St. Augustine around the late 1800s.  You know me and old Americana stuff, this will be a definite stop when ouse run our workshop next year in St. Augustine!  Here is some of my mornings find!

Part of a well stocked grocery shelf in the General Store section.

Turn of the century medicines!

A classic metal Pillsbury sign!

Glass front seed cabinet.

Very rare, early Hershey’s Chocolate bars.

Turn of century, gear driven farm wagon.

Great old metal signs.

Antique hardware cabinet.

Hand made wooden gear.

Thanks to Mr C.F. Hamblen and his family for keeping this treasure trove of Americana!

And then again,

Blessings,

the pilgrim

*Photo Notes:  All beach images with Fuji X-T1 and 55-200 and 56 f 1.2

Tree Image:  Fuji X-T1 & 55-200

Oldest Store Images all X-T1 & 35mm f 1.4 lens and hand held @ 3200 ISO.