When Steve Fulghum retired to Asheville, he joined Trackside Studios to show some of his photographs from the last 60 years. 

These include straight photos like “Lotus and Dragonfly,” but also composite images like “Mr. Koi,” shown above (photographs of things that cannot exist but might tell a good story). The best ones help viewers create their own stories.

“The May cover,” Fulghum says, “was taken locally, at Frank Dixon’s mountain resort, the Cove at Fairview, which has one of the most beautiful lotus ponds I’ve seen outside Asia.” 

Fulghum stood at the edge of the pond for around 45 minutes, waiting for that dragonfly to land in just the right way — so that the lace of its wings would cast a shadow on the petal. Finally, the little guy cooperated. 

“Study in Black and White” was taken one morning in a rural New England town while he visited a college friend’s home.

“The old black slate tombstones always please me… and they last… while Civil War marble slowly dissolves,” he says, adding, “The irony of the white stones set back by themselves was not lost on me.”

Steve Fulghum

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