I love to photograph architecture at dusk and have recently started using HDR (high dynamic range) techniques.

While covering assignments for the paper, I also have to keep up with scanner traffic to cover fires, accidents and natural disasters. If anything blows up or burns down we have to assess how quickly we can get there,how serious it is and what kind of photo it will make.

In addition to regular assignments of photos to go with stories, we also look for feature photos. Features can be something you happen upon or photo ideas you develop on your own.

I get to photograph a lot of concerts and performances as part of my job at the paper. Usually when photographing concerts you are limited to photographing during the first 2 or 3 songs only. It can sometimes be a challenge to getting that killer shot when you only have such a limited opportunity .

Photos of my kites including the 27 ft. Furax, the 24 ft. delta and the 42 ft. ring kite.

Photos of Bob Gathany photographer

Southern School of Photography, McMinnville, TN 1904-1928. My grandmother Florence Rice attended the school in 1912.

My grandmother Florence Rice and her brother Harry Rice we photographers in the Harrison Valley/Galeton area of northwest Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.

Nyack Missionary Training Institute photographs 1916-1922 made by Florence Rice Gathany.

Nyack Missionary Training Institute photographs 1916-1922 made by Florence Rice Gathany.

Huntsville snow photos Christmas Day 2010. First ever recorded snow on Christmas Day in Huntsville, Ala.

Feb. 9, 2011 snow in Huntsville, AL.

Images of tornado damage and volunteers who are helping clean up after a series of tornadoes swept through North Alabama Wed. April 27, 2011.

Bob & Lou's trip to Iceland. We walked the streets of Reykjavik, did a mini-bus tour of the south coast and spent a 16 hour day on the Snaefellsnes peninsula on the west coast of Iceland with Icelandic landscape photographer Páll Jökull Pétursson.

While I sometimes take vacations to stop taking photos it was not easy to do this while spending 2 weeks in Italy. Lou & I flew to Pisa and spent time in Pietrasanto, Lucca, Sienna, Florence, Venice, Rome and Viareggio. Lots of time looking up at the ceilings of cathedrals and down from towers and cathedral domes.

I've made 2 trips to Alaska, July 2005 and June 2010. The first was with my 85 year old Uncle Leon Gathany. It was his 30th trip to Alaska and he did not start visiting Alaska until he was 65. At 80 he was a musher's assistant in the Iditarod.The second trip was with my wife Lou for our 35th anniversary.These are some of my favorite images.