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CC: Your book with Jingle Davis about oyster
tabby, due out summer 2021, what was the most
surprising shoot?
BG: Jingle and I took a trip to Beaufort and met
an historian there who is particularly devoted to
preserving tabby. It was more of a scouting trip
for me. I planned to do research and go back. But
of course I brought my cameras. It was a rainy
day, and there was a place called the Chapel of
Ease on St. Helena, SC. We were three people
piled in a tiny sedan. Just as we got there, the
mist stopped and the sun came out. It was almost
spiritual. Gorgeous photos came from that day.
There’s a mysterious tabby archway with no
visible support. Nobody really knows how they
pulled it off that early.
CC: You've been photographing the coast for
decades. Where have you seen the most change
and the least?
BG: The greatest change by far would be St.
Simons. Without a doubt St. Simons has seen a lot
of growth. The least amount? Sapelo has hardly
changed. It's stuck in time. My experiences on
Sapelo were as remote as it gets. I would not see
anybody all day. (When) spending the night on
Cumberland, I would camp. Even there you would
see people. Unlike Sapelo, where if I saw anybody,
it probably was because their mother and her
mother and her mother were from there.
CC: Your cover photo of the south end of Jekyll
Island could be an abstract painting. Is that what
first drew you to drone photography?
BG: In part, yes. At first it was the perspective: a
different angle on the coastline that I have spent so
much time photographing. Lately, I’m more
interested in the textures and abstract nature of
these scenes. I think that allows people to look at it
and think about it more.
CC: When did you shoot that image?
BG: Early December, 2019, just after sunrise. That
time of day is my favorite to shoot.
CC: Is gallandphoto.com the best way to acquire
prints?
BG: Yes, that’s perfect!
CC: Most importantly, what are your kids asking
you to cook for them?
BG: We have gotten very comfortable with any
form of pasta, and my kids will eat that for
breakfast, lunch and dinner for days until it's gone.
I love to grill. It gets me outside. I've been making
bread for years, but recently I have been making a
loaf almost every other day. My sourdough starter
is "Tina", named after a friend who game me her
starter to feed.
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