Rested Traveler | Photography
Middle Saluda River
Jones Gap State Park - South Carolina
About
I'm just a fastidious, yet humble guy from a fairly modest home with a beautiful wife, two amazing kids, a couple of pretty cool cats, a camera, a tripod, and a burning desire to get out and photograph this world which leaves me rapt in awe.
"He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
All photographic work displayed here is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Gear
What's Currently in my Gear Bag?
Camera Bodies:
Canon EOS 350D (AKA Digital Rebel XT)
Lenses:
Sigma 18-50mm f/3.5-5.6 DC
Sigma 10-20mm f/4.0-5.6 DC HSM
Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
What I'd LOVE to some day have in my Gear Bag (If anyone is feeling charitable or philanthropic)...
Dream Camera Bodies:
Canon EOS 1D Mark III
Canon EOS 40D
Canon EOS 5D
Dream Lenses:
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM
Flash Equipment:
Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2
Speedlite 580EX II
Software
I pride myself in minimal post-processing; however, I have taken to using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and am learning enough about it to be dangerous...or at least enough for me to salvage photos that I may have otherwise cast aside in the past with a comment of "unfortunately, it's underexposed" or "unfortunately, I set the improper white balance" or "unfortunately, this wasn't composed as well as I would have liked."
Sound and Light
My Music
Recent Songs (VirbTunes) - see all
- Weezer - Thought I knew
- Weezer - Dreamin'
- Weezer - Everybody Get Dangerous
- Weezer - Heart Songs
- Weezer - Heart Songs
Top Artists (VirbTunes) - see all
- Jimmy Eat World - 197
- Smashing Pumpkins - 35
- Go Big Casino - 23
Top Albums (VirbTunes) - see all
- Jimmy Eat World - Futures - 55
- Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light - 50
- Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American - 36
Top Songs (VirbTunes) - see all
- Here It Goes - Jimmy Eat World - 11
- Futures - Jimmy Eat World - 9
- Nothingwrong - Jimmy Eat World - 8
Tunes
Barenaked Ladies, Blink 182, Blur, Cake, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab For Cutie, Depeche Mode, Foo Fighters, Genesis, Green Day, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimmy Eat World, Modest Mouse, Mute Math, Nirvana, Panic at the Disco, Panic! at the Disco, Pearl Jam, Placebo, R.E.M., Seven Mary Three, Smashing Pumpkins, Stabbing Westward, Stone Temple Pilots, Tabitha's Secret, Tabitha's Secret, the Killers, the Offspring, the Outfield, the Smithereens, the Smiths, Tori Amos, U2, Veruca Salt, Veruca Salt, Weezer
Flicks
A Bug's Life, A League of Their Own, Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Better Off Dead, Bull Durham, Career Opportunities, Cars, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma, Elizabethtown, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Field of Dreams, Finding Nemo, Grosse Pointe Blank, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hook, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mall Rats, Monsters Incorporated, O Brother Where Art Thou, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, Real Genius, Reality Bites, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ratatouille, Reservoir Dogs, Singles, Sixteen Candles, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Star Wars, The Breakfast Club, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Incredibles, The Fifth Element, The Final Countdown, The Princess Bride
Tube
Torchwood, Doctor Who, Discovery, Food Network, Grey's Anatomy, Good Eats, Hell's Kitchen, Heroes, HGTV, History Channel, the Amazing Race, the Office, Top Chef, Travel Channel, Scrubs
Authors
Interests
Aviation, Photojournalism, Urban Development, The Lymphoma Research Foundation, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, The Lance Armstrong Foundation, Hospice
Activities
Blog - see all 44
Keith Olbermann is my Hero May 18
Overall, it was a nice day... May 1
Ocean Voyager Tube Originally uploaded by
Mommy Apr 7
Mommy Originally uploaded by the Rested Traveler. This photo was taken on 14-ARP-2005, when my mother came to Travelers Rest to visit us about a month after her grandson was born.I posted the photo to flickr on 22-MAR-2007 as she continued to deteriorate due to he...
Comments - see all 58
posted 2 weeks ago
Its sort of funny to leave a photographer alone for 9 months or so and then come back, and see how they've improved. Always good stuff, my friend.
posted Jun 24
Thanks for the help with the NY identifications! I doubt if my husband will even know much about what he was taking photos of - he'll be amazed by my knowledge when he returns!
posted May 15
Is there a code that puts the Twitter updates on your page or is there a section in the Virb control panel? I have a music Virb so i think i can't do it.
posted May 1
thank you for accepting my add request. You have some great photography here!
posted Mar 3
Great photos!
posted Feb 9
I was watching MSNBC this morning before I came in to work and they are broadcasting live from SC and were talking about the weather...I thought of you and Heather immediately. Enjoy all that glorious snow!
posted Jan 19
Hey! How's it going? I hope you're enjoying the new year as much as I am! -PB
posted Jan 12
Thanks for the add! I actually just learned today that I may have a little hope left with finding my camera. Keeping my fingers crossed!
posted Nov 25
Hi RT, Happy Thanksgiving!
posted Nov 22
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,, Chodehakama Watson ,, says:
OMG that's CRAZY !!! ... glad you all made it there safe =)
posted 1 week ago