The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Stay strong. For us, this is more than just a job-it’s a calling. Together, we will stand to protect our parks, environment, and wildlife. Four years… we remain hopeful that the attack on our public lands will be less brutal this time.

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I am that photographer who will spend an overtly huge amount of time riddled with anxiety before your shoot. Love to collab, talk about your desires, story, life to calm your anxieties and my own. Embrace the weird and normal about you and believes photography is an art form and not just pictures.

With the setting sun at my back those clouds covered the landscape like a quilt on Caney Ridge.

I’ll go plum hillbilly on anyone that says we don’t live in one of the most beautiful places on our little blue orb.
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The Cumberland Museum no longer sits abandoned. New owners, Ashley and Mike Lehmann, have vital work planned for Fred Carter’s museum.
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If you have trouble like myself with the shortened sunlight of the season, making a little time to be outdoors while the sun is shining seems to relieve the long dark evenings.

On a walk this week on Caney Ridge these beautiful colors gave me a lift.
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The beautiful colors of fall in Southwestern Virginia.

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Vibe with your friends.
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@jacobmackboll @adajuliaky and their adorable little human
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Give Cowan Community Center half a chance and they’ll thrown down a square dance and feed you. They really know how to open their doors and welcome the friend or stranger.

I’m so grateful a place like that exists.
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Cowan Community Center shone brightly on Tuesday night, uniting friends from Korea and EKY.

As they shared customs and built bonds, I felt honored to witness joy. Photography distills life’s essence and profound representation.
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Cowan Community Center is fostering a heartwarming exchange between Korean friends and local community members, building on summer connections and creating lifelong memories through cultural sharing.

I spent last evening making new friends and connections through art and photography.
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