PUBLISHED WNC Magazine January February 2014

After what was literally years of dancing around photo requests and potential uses, I finally managed to land an opportunity with WNC Magazine in the first month of 2014. An image I took the previous year of the Chattooga River Section Zero headwaters flowing underneath the old iron bridge in Jackson County, Western North Carolina while snow fell on the evergreen Mountain Laurel bushes was chosen as a two-page Vistas feature image for the months of January & February respectively. Vistas is a monthly issue-based photo feature that WNC Magazine uses to showcase seasonally appropriate images of the local area. The memorable thing about this photograph for me as a photographer was that, on this particular morning, while I was descending the mountain in my truck after morning photo adventures in snowfall conditions, I hit a patch of black ice and damaged the front end of my truck pretty good when I tried to do battle with a rock wall. While the commission for this photo was not enough to offset the auto repair fees, it did go a long way to easing the economic loss that I thought I had surely occurred on this particular attempt to illustrate the Western North Carolina mountains in winter conditions! Whatever it takes right? Hmmm...

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