Messy

The Arbor Station Apartments, Long Beach, Mississippi. Destroyed completely by Hurricane Katrina on Monday August 29, 2005. My mom's apartment was someone around here. She lived on the second floor. There was nothing left of it. The Gulf of Mexico can be seen in the distance on the horizon between the legs of the stairs on the left.

Photo was taken on September 17, 2005.

Bridge

The Wednesday photo site never did accept my entry from last week(it's still 'pending'), so I'm done with them. So I'll just post a photo from the set I'm working on right now.
This is the inside of the historic Shelby Street Bridge in downtown Nashville. It was once a major route from downtown to East Nashville, but the bridge had to be shut down to auto traffic in 1998. Built in 1909, it was placed on National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and reopened as a pedestrian bridge in 2003. Several country music videos have been filmed on and around the bridge.

The Titans

I don't really have a good photo that I can think of for today's theme(day-night), so I just went for this one of the Titans game back in August, with sort of a sunset outside the stadium. Meh. At least the Titans won the game.

Dog

See It Sunday. I'm not around dogs much, I'm more of a cat person. This is the War Dog Memorial at the University of Tennessee Veterinary School in Knoxville, a beautiful Doberman with a collar that says "Always Faithful".

For more information, please check their website.

Red

Thursday Challenge.
Her'n and His'n outhouses. Abandoned mini-golf course in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. July 2009

Storm

Lensday.
The Hurricane Camille fishing boat. Myth had that it washed up during Hurricane Camille in Gulfport, Mississippi in 1969 and was used as an attraction with a tourist shop built next to it. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 washed away the gift shop and damaged the boat. Photo taken August 2007. I've heard that it's been removed and/or destroyed since then.

Inside-Outside

Two For Tuesday
Barn along the Natchez Trace Parkway, July 2009

Belle Vue

This would be Moody Monday, but I haven't figured out to add a link to that one. So I'll just post it any old photo.
This is Belle Vue, the home built in 1797, and for which the town of Bellevue in west Davidson County is named. It was moved here, Red Caboose Park, in 2006 from its original location near the Harpeth River.

I don't usually manipulate my photos very much, but I have noticed that the photos that seem to get the most attention on Flickr are ones that have some editing done. So I thought I'd play around with a few photos.

Tower

See it Sunday. Biloxi Lighthouse, Biloxi, Mississippi 2007

Another Bedtime

There is no picture for today's Saturday Challenge, because they wanted a "self portrait" and I don't do those for anyone. So I thought I'd post another "bedtime" photo, just to have something up for the day.

Little Squirrel Sleeping in a Tree.

Bedtime

PhotoFriday entry. A tired little Clouded Leopard cub with his blanky. Nashville Zoo, October 2009.

Free for all

Thursday Challenge. One of my favorite photos taken in 2005.

Juvenile

This is for Lensday, but that is still last week's subject, as they haven't updated yet for today. I didn't feel like waiting, but it is probably too late to enter it.
Geese at Radnor Lake, Nashville, TN May of 2008.

River-Road

Two 4 Tuesday photo of the day. I'm not confident about this one, so I probably won't be entering it. This was taken two years after Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi. The road in the distance is Highway 90 being rebuilt. The broken bridge in the foreground is the old highway(prior to Hwy 90) from Biloxi to Ocean Springs.

New Year!

I am back with a new year and a new look. Going wide since I got a new widescreen monitor for my birthday. And hoping to add lots more photos, more often, and maybe even get over my fear of rejection and link some of my photos to some of the daily contests. Who knows.

I've also changed the subject back to photos of what I see, no matter where I take them. If you are new, I had changed the subject of my photos to only those I had taken from the passenger seat of our car. While I still have many of those that I could add, I was finding that I was limiting myself too much and the quality of the photos I had to post wasn't my best.

While I still feel that I'm not a very good photographer, I just freakin' love taking photos. And I love to travel. And I feel that the name, "Reconnaissance Photos" best fits the direction of where I'm going.

Reconnaissance:

1.	Military. a search made for useful military information in the field, esp. by examining the ground.

2.	Surveying, Civil Engineering. a general examination or survey of a region, usually followed by a detailed survey.

3.	Geology. an examination or survey of the general geological characteristics of a region.

My photos are historical in nature. Old homes, abandoned places, military sites, and anything related to my home, Tennessee.

I hope that maybe a few people will stumble upon this site and at least somewhat enjoy my photos and commentary.