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Paul J. Sumberg, Sr.
is a landscape/nature photographer who divides his time between Florida and the mountains of Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee. He cannot pass an old building or structure without stopping and shooting a couple photographs.-
Recent posts
Photo Shoot at the A.T. and Noontootla Creek
I went with the Blue Ridge Mountain Photographers on a shoot today. It was a fun trip and we saw some beautiful landscapes. This was a spot where the Appalachain Trail, Benton MacKaye and Duncan Ridge trails all use the same path.
The site is only about 15 miles from my house so you can bet I’ll return (with my dog).
Posted in Landscape, Nature, North Georgia Mountains, Photography, Waterfalls
Tagged Landscape, Mountains, Nature, North Georgia, Photography, waterfall
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Spring house cleaning
Honestly, I have had this on my to-do list for 10 months. I think that seeing all the beautiful spring flowers popping up around me motivated me to finally update the Flowers and Plants gallery.
http://paulsumberg.com/galleries/flowers-and-plants/
Posted in Flowers, North Georgia Mountains, Photography
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Found Off Road Dead
I made my semi-annual run across the mountains into civilization to stock up on supplies this week. I take way-back roads to get there.
Along the way I spotted this old FORD truck.
Posted in Byegones, North Georgia Mountains, Photography
Tagged Byegones, Mountains, North Georgia, Photography, Sumberg
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Foggy glen
This is from an early morning walk earlier this week.
Every day brings me the opportunity to witness nature’s beauty here in the mountains of North Georgia.
Posted in North Georgia Mountains, Payne's Farm, Photography
Tagged Landscape, Mountains, Nature, Payne's Farm, Photography, Sumberg
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Lightroom 4 beta has a great mapping function
I spent a few minutes with ADOBE’s Lightroom 4 Beta this morning and checked out it’s MAP function. It’s great. You can select a map location (Google Maps), drill down to the exact spot you want and add the photo to the map and at the same time add latitude and longitude to the photo’s metadata. How cool is that?
Posted in Florida, Photography, Tampa
Tagged Florida, LIGHTROOM, Photography, Sumberg, Tampa
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Not going into Weather Underground’s photo gallery
Friends have encouraged me to place some of my images in the Weather Underground gallery. This morning I read the fine print. By uploading an image to their gallery, I grant them a perpetual non-exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable right to pretty much use, sell, or modify my image however and whenever they wish.
So, I won’t be placing this image in their gallery.
View from Brasstown Bald, the highest peak in the North Georgia Mountains.
Or this one:
Posted in Landscape, North Georgia Mountains, Photography
Tagged Landscape, Mountains, North Georgia
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NOT PHOTOCRATI
Well alrighty then . . . . .
After several years of struggling with the PHOTOCRATI theme for my WordPress website, I gave up. I purchased it because they did a fair job (at the time) of displaying images and seemed to be photography centric. They also had a working integration of the Simple PayPal Shopping Cart. Over time I realized they were to be oriented toward wedding or portrait photographers and fell short for showing or selling fine art photography.
PHOTOCRATI promised a lot but in my opinion, rarely delivered what was promised and failed to meet their announced delivery dates. I’m not saying their theme won’t work for many photographers. To their credit, I have to say they fully refunded my purchase price long after their standard guarantee period. The theme just didn’t work for me and their promises of making it better just prolonged the redesign of my website month after month.
Finally, I scrapped everything and started with a fresh WordPress installation, a new theme and a hand full of plugins and I am pleased with the results.
If you happen across this blog post and are interested in what theme or plugins I’m using, shoot me a note and I’ll be happy to tell you.
Peace out Y’all.
Paul
Waterfall at Jefferson Davis Memorial Park
Just off the campus of Young Harris College is this small waterfall at Jefferson Davis Memorial Park.
Cool, Clear and Refreshing
Posted in Landscape, North Georgia Mountains, Photography, Waterfalls
Tagged Mountains, North Georgia, Photography, Sumberg, waterfall
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Becalmed
The Pram fleet at Davis Island Yacht Club was becalmed. February 21, 2010.
Waiting for the breeze
Posted in Davis Island Yacht Club, Photography, Tampa
Tagged Davis Islands, DIYC, Photography, Sailing, Sumberg
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Aside
There’s a good story about why I was on Bayshore Boulevard at 5:30 in the morning taking pictures. Some of you know it. I’ll just say it was remotely related to a copyright dispute.
Tampa from Bayshore Boulevard