With three days until Brandyn and Jennifer return from the cruise, we decided we would check out some local history today. After working on a couple projects with the boys, I googled "Dunlap Coke Ovens" and gave the boys a history lesson about their town here in Tennessee... It was a booming coal town once and the remnants of the coke ovens were rescued from destruction and abuse in the 1980's and have since become a beautiful park... On the way, we saw a very unusual sight - an A4-M Skyhawk was sitting disassembled on a flatbed truck across the street from the local McDonald's... It came from Fort Worth and was hauled up here by Walmart to eventually be placed in the new Veteran's Memorial Park currently being built in front of the high school.
Back to Coke Ovens Park... The lighting today was incredible... I mean, Sacred Grove incredible! The quality and direction of the filtered light was to die for... It was so good in fact, that i decided to take my camera out of the bag today... (My goal was to have Deb shoot the entire road trip with her Canon point-and-shoot, which is mostly what has been done... I am totally impressed with her abilities and her "big" camera in the small case)... Deb and I had so much fun shooting the boys and the industrial equipment all throughout the park... This would be an incredible place to shoot seniors or brides... unfortunately, it is a little far for us to travel, unless the price is right!
Here are some of Deb's images: (Click on the first image for a slide show format browser)
The "infant-tree" is coming, the "infant-tree is coming!"
Here are some of my images: (Remember, all images are copyrighted).
These and the rest of the photos will be available on our website soon in the full-size printable format.
Scott
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