Machinist by trade, but an artist at heart
By Terry Dickson | |
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Morgan is a rarity among photographers in believing that once the light comes through the lens, it's over, that's the picture.
"I don't do Photoshop,'' he said of the program that lets photographers adjust the color, contrast and other factors in digital images. "I don't like looking at a picture and know it's been doctored."
Not that he doesn't appreciate technology. This is a 50-year-old man whose heart rate has been doctored by a pacemaker since 1999. It was his heart that got him into photography in the first place.
He was off work recovering from surgery and about the most strenuous thing he could do was fish the
"I decided to take a camera when I went fishing,'' he said.
Then he branched out, took a few pictures away from the river. He photographed old houses, weathered churches, the water spilling over the rusted sheet-pile dam on
He also shot a picture of sulfurous water streaming from the old hand pump at the
"That's the first one anybody liked and wanted,'' he said.
Now people want a lot of his pictures. He has published three books of collected pictures, the big coffee table volumes "Satilla Solitude,'' "
He's sold out of the first 1,000 of "Satilla Solitude" and is 200 books into the second printing. Of the 1,094 "Okefenokee Swamp Wild and Natural,'' that were printed, there are about 64 left and tourism season is upon him. It looks like a second printing is going to be necessary and perhaps more now that he's on Amazon.
His pictures are also on display in a number of area businesses, most notably
"I tell him I'm his personal gallery,'' Roberson said.
When there was a change in the feed to the big screen TVs at Jerry J's, Morgan filled the vacuum with 500 to 600 of his favorite pictures. He has alligators, wading birds, the 43 species of birds he's photographed from a blind in his back yard, mountains, waterfalls and other scenes from trips to
A Jerry J's diner unknowingly paid him an enormous compliment.
"She said she didn't know they had the National Geographic Channel in
If a picture is worth a thousand words, it can also be cashed in for some good memories.
A woman now living in
Just before she retired her boss walked by and saw her staring at it.
"I don't know where you were,'' her boss said, "but it sure was not at work."
She retired soon after and can spend all the time she wants on that dirt road.
It's not all pleasant, of course. In "
"That is one emotion that lets me know I am making a difference,'' Morgan said.
He works as a machinist and doesn't know if he'll ever get to be a full-time photographer, but Morgan says his work away from the paying job has touched some people and that's made it worth the time and expense.
And his heart is still in [email protected], (912) 264-0405
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