Nora and Daddy playing in the splash areaI guess I need to rename our travel blog from Dogparks and Brewpubs, to Dogparks and Playgrounds :) Since Nora has begun walking we have made a point to search out big playgrounds for her to check out. Right now though I think it is probably more [...]

Randall Louis Hamilton
Randy Hamilton – CEO, Pilot, Photographer, Author, Artist, 2nd in Command, Dad“I was born and raised in Loveland Ohio, just outside Cincinnati. I had a very adventurous childhood, and my parents traveled alot with me. I attended the Columbus College of Art and Design, Pensacola Junior College and finally getting my degree in [...]

Randy getting a shot of Lost Sole #19 on a highway in Tampa. Florida. Photograph by Kevin "Grab the Rope" Hon.
In a time when everyone seems focused on the technical aspect of photography and not the artistic aspect I decided to do something unique, I wanted to expose that the subject of the photo is [...]

In volume 2 we continued our adventures in the Cruise Master motor home by circling around the East Coast. We explored from Florida to Ohio to Maryland and back, eventually settling down back in Pensacola where the first journey began. All the while discovering more lost shoes, or what I now call, lost soles.
This volume [...]

Volume 2: Friends, Family and Lost SolesIn volume 2 we continued our adventures in the Cruise Master motor home by circling around the East Coast. We explored from Florida to Ohio to Maryland and back, eventually settling down back in Pensacola where the first journey began. All the while discovering more lost shoes, or what [...]

I took this photo of Joan O’Maley with the Canadian Flag while doing a cover shoot for Snowbirds Magazine, March Edition.This past week I was asked by the Publisher of Snowbirds magazine, Karen Harrell, to travel to Panama City and shoot a senior couple for the cover of the March issue.
The couple were from Ontario, [...]

February 2010, Snowbirds CoverHello my name is Randy Hamilton and I traveled with my wife Sharon and 2 dogs, Jack and Jinjer, for over 4 years full-time in our 36′ 1998 Cruisemaster motor home. When I was first asked by Snowbirds to write an article about being Snowbirds I was caught a little off-guard. I [...]

Many people have been asking for an eBook to download in PDF format so I created low resolution files to accommodate the requests. These coffee-table-sized books are much more than just normal photo books, they are a photographically illustrated, collection of non-fictional short stories that become a cohesive short novel. All 3 volumes are interconnected [...]

These books are much more than just photo books, they are a photographically-illustrated, collection of non-fictional short stories that become a cohesive short novel. All 3 volumes are interconnected. Vol. 1 is a about a physical journey (traveling across the U.S. in a motorhome after becoming homeless following a disastrous hurricane), Volume 2 picks up [...]

Lost Sole #300!! Found outside of the future Lost Sole Gallery in Navarre, FL!Cannot believe I actually have photographed 300 lost soles. Seems as if just yesterday I got the idea to take the photos, thinking how cool it would be to get 100 of them :) And the good news is that I have [...]