When my wife Alice and I retired from the Citrus County, Florida, public school system in June, 2005, we purchased a fifth wheel and a digital SLR camera and planned to *photograph as much of the USA as we could. We got as far as Scottsboro, Alabama, and decided that we were homebodies after all. Since then and for the most part, the fifth wheel has been stored out back. We still travel occasionally, but the scenery around northeast Alabama and southern Tennessee has been more than enough to keep us oohing and aahing. (With names like Paint Rock Valley, Crow Mountain, Walls of Jericho, Little River Canyon, Big Coon, and Little Coon, and waterfalls too numerous to name, who wouldn't?)
Almost by accident, we discovered that handmade oak Venetian tile-inlayed frames really set our photos off. Since then, I’ve bought oak from local saw mills, air dried it in our garage, and sawed, planed, and fashioned the frames we’ve used with our pictures. Alice’s flawless sense of color shows up in the tiles of the frames.
A few years ago, we joined the North East Alabama Craftsman Association (NEACA) and began exhibiting the framed photographs at its shows.
More recently, Alice began knitting beautiful scarves and exhibiting them at the shows along with our photos. So far, the scarves have been a big hit.
In 2012, we look forward to meeting you at the North East Alabama Craftsman Association’s Craft Shows at the Von Braun Center, in Huntsville, Alabama, on the following dates: March 16-18, September 21-23, and December 7-9.
Fin Pendergast
*Most of the photographs on this site were taken within a fifty mile radius of our home.
