Category Archives: Asheville

Night stalking again – ghost posers

This is the latest in a series of photos I’m working on, some of which I have previously posted here. I’m posting this to show the evolution of an idea. The first of these was from over a year ago, when I took a picture of a chocolate shop with a line of people outside....

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Leotards, tutus and Rhoda Weaver

Rhoda Weaver is one of my favorite buskers. She has a great voice and always adds a little class to the evenings in Asheville. I’ve been wanting to get her picture for a couple years, but she always sang in a spot that had terrible light. That spot is now the entrance to the very...

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Midnight at Eagle and Market

I’ve been night stalking around Asheville again. Caught this scene outside Apothecary late Friday night. After two Apothecary shots in a row, I promise to stalk for victims elsewhere. As the weather is warming, there is no shortage of street performers. So all you buskers playing late keep an eye out for me.

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Apothecary electronica

I am starting to spend a lot more time in Asheville lately working on a new project I’ll write about later. I have realized that man can’t live on the Orange Peel and Firestorm alone, so I have been searching for alternate places to hang out at night. I was fortunate to find Apothecary in...

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Beware of attack duck

I walked around Asheville today looking to shoot a picture and couldn’t find one. So I gave up and went to dinner at the White Duck Taco Shop, and there it was. Great tacos too.

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Dean Guitars

Dean Parris was at the Blackberry Smoke show in Asheville in every way imaginable, except physically. Dean, who was injured around a month ago in a scooter accident during the Simple Man Cruise, is still recovering at Care Partners Rehab Hospital in Asheville, NC where the entire band visited him Friday afternoon. Charley Starr announced...

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Sound check under the Big Ass Fan

Blackberry Smoke jammed for a while during sound check at the Orange Peel in Asheville this afternoon. It really is a Big Ass Fan, made by the Big Ass Fan Company in Lexington, KY. No wonder it’s always so comfy at the Peel.

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Faces of the 99% at Firestorm Cafe & Books in Asheville

My regular readers know I like Asheville and spend a lot of time there. You also know I like my coffee and espresso. So it should come as no surprise that I have been known to hang out at the Firestorm Cafe in downtown Asheville. Why? Because I think they have the best espresso in...

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