Canton, Mississippi

Oh my goodness, it's Day 4 of Canton Week and I still got lots of photos to go. So there are a few extra today. Hope you got time to look at all of them!

OK, I may have bent the rules again by going into a building, but the next few photos were taken inside Alley Cats, a blues bar in the back of an antiques store on the square. The owner invited David and I inside to look around and we took him up on it. The old microphone caught our eyes immediately and we had fun shooting it. The third photo was taken with a flash, the others were taken with available light. I love 'em!

OK, we're back out on the square again.

A lot of these next pictures were of a cafe on the square that, I think, was set up for the "My Dog Skip" movie that was filmed in and around Canton. Some neat stuff!


The early morning sun was hitting the juke box just right when I was there and gave the white front a slightly yellow glow.

Canton, Mississippi

It's Day 3 of Canton Week. These photos may not actually qualify for the challenge to shoot the square at Canton because I went inside and shot some photos. Look closely at these photos, too, for it is not often that my photos (other than high school photos) have people in them. But Mr. O'Cain said I could snap away and the man in the chair didn't have a problem with it, so away I snapped! Do these images take you back or what?


I couldn't decide which I liked better, the color of the black-and-white, so I present them both.

Self-portrait

Canton, Mississippi

It's Day 2 of Canton Week. The square has more photos per square yard than anyplace in Mississippi! They were everywhere I looked! My photo buddy, David Stuart, also went with me and did a better job of capturing the overall square than I did. I got a little bit too close to most things. David's photos of Canton can be found on his website, http://stuartphoto.smugmug.com. Click on the Photography gallery and it is listed under there. David is an excellent photographer and I can learn a lot by how he captures his images.

Canton, Mississippi

It's Canton Week. A while back, my blogging friend Janie, over at http://southernlagniappe.blogspot.com, issued me a challenge for us to go shoot at separate times a portion of Mississippi that neither of us has ever photographed. We decided on the square and the surrounding two blocks of Canton. Once done, we were to compare what we shot and she how well we matched or saw things completely different. I was planning on going back one more time to shoot the square, but circumstances have popped up in my way, so I am making do with my one trip there. We were supposed to pick our favorite 25 pictures, but that is cruel and unusual punishment for something so fun, so for this week I will show you what I shot. Go to Janie's site to look at what she captured!

And this is just the start! If you know anyone in Canton, clue them in to this blog this week! It's going to be fun!