Screenwriting From Iowa

Charleston, South Carolina is one of my favorite cities in the U.S. and East Bay Street is one of my favorite spots in Charleston. I took this photo this morning after a short stop over there and reminded myself that I need to spend some extended time there some day just walking around the city […]

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“Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” President Lyndon B. Johnson Today I visited the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Three time Pulitzer Prize winning poet/biographer Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was born in Galesburg, IL, kicked […]

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I’d avoided Chimney Rock for decades because it seemed too touristy, but today I walked the steps to the top and the weather and the views were fantastic. Some of the scenes from The Last of the Mohicans  (1992) were shot at Chimney Rock. And that skinny lake in the background of my photo is Lake […]

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This afternoon I was in Asheville, North Carolina (the Austin of the deep south) and thought I’d have a photo from today, but instead my postcard from the road today comes from a photo I took in historic downtown Hendersonville (just south of Asheville). It’s of a statue of bear painted by artists, Miriam M. Hughes, […]

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I did a video production in Greenville, South Carolina just over a decade ago and found that it was one of my favorite towns in the South. Visiting there today it’s even nicer than it was a decade ago. Greenville is artsy and outdoorsy (hiking, biking, kayaking). It’s home to Furman University and business seems […]

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The St. Simons Island Light is a lighthouse completed in 1872 and one of the most dramatic events to happen there occurred in 1880 when assistant keeper John Stephens killed lightkeeper Frederick Osborne in a pistol dual. More recently The Leisure Seekers (2017) starring Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren shot for a couple of days […]

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Until today, I hadn’t been to Jekyll Island, Georgia in more than 20 years.  I did an hour long bike ride of the trails there and took this photo of what’s now called the Jekyll Island Resort Club. In the late 1800s it was a playground of the wealthiest Americans. Before that Spanish explorers first came […]

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I’ll follow yesterday’s post on Scott Adam’s talking about the skill acquisition success formula with a photo taken today which rounds out a week of personally dipping into a few areas of new skill acquisition. I don’t know how many cameras I’ve shot with since my film school days, but the number of film/video/digital cameras […]

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“Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.” Scott Adams Dilbert creator While Scott Adams says “it’s never a good idea to take advice from cartoonist” that’s just a friendly way to disarm you, make you like him, and want to hear what he has to say. And he makes a point of saying […]

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