After the tough mystery in the last issue, this week’s photo of sun warming the walls of this home should be pretty easy. Third person to guess what this is — and why it is important — will get a pair of ticket vouchers for a Charleston RiverDogs’ game. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
This stone angel is at peace in a peaceful place, Magnolia Cemetery, in Charleston. Draped in Spanish moss, the angel seems to be responding in reverence to the calm of the historic resting ground to many of Charleston’s early leaders. In the background, you can see marshes that lead to the Cooper River. Photo by Andy Brack.
There’s at least one place in Charleston that doesn’t need to fool with all of the legislative nonsense over state Sen. Lee Bright’s transgender “bathroom bill” as is clearly labeled in this photo by editor Andy Brack. But where is it? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
You’ve got to love this colorful, watermelon-themed bicycle parked on a street in Florence, Italy. How Italian! How uplifting!
This photo and others below are by Charleston’s Cynthia Bledsoe, who has a photographic eye we’ve long admired. When we learned she was headed to Italy recently for a vacation, we asked her to share some of her favorite travel pictures with us to give us a taste and feel of Italy. You won’t be disappointed starting with some photos from Tuscany and Umbria in the north and followed by images from the Sorrento area south of Naples. Thanks, Cynthia!
If you’ve been a longtime reader of Charleston Currents, you’ve seen this incline from Magnolia Plantation and Gardens before. In the past, though, contributing photographer Michael Kaynard snapped photos of alligators or turtles — or both — sunning in a swampy area around the attraction. This time, he found a duck and her seven — or eight — ducklings. How many do you see?
This photo might be a little tough, but if you’ve traveled around Charleston County, you might have seen it. (That’s about as much of a hint as we’ll give.) First to correctly guess the location of this Michael Kaynard photo gets a pair of ticket vouchers for box seats at a Charleston RiverDogs’ game. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
Just what is this old photo AND why might it be important? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
This bunch of roses made from palmetto fronds graced an old iron fence Sunday on East Battery Street in Charleston. Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard discovered lots of the hand-crafted roses while walking throughout the city’s streets on a balmy Sunday.
In photography, “cropping” is the practice of slicing away parts of a photo that aren’t wanted so the viewer will focus on what the photographer things is important. But it also can be used to obscure, as we’ve done this week with an image snapped by contributor Michael Kaynard.
Talk about a lot of reading on one school day — The 33 students in Lynn Newman’s elementary class at Charles Towne Montessori read 15,279 pages in a one-day fundraiser to benefit the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center.
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