RONALD C WELCH

Writer, Essayist and Fine-Art Nature & Wildlife Photographer.

His work is grounded in the ordinary stories of people, nature, places and consequence.

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Lionfish.
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On Alum Cave trail in the Great Smoky Mountains...
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The house finch...
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Bald River Falls near Telico Plains, Tennessee.

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Botany Bay road on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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A Great Blue Heron at Huntington Beach State Park.
Murrels Inlet, South Carolina.

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Gulf Islands National Seashore.

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Botany Bay Road.
Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis).
Photographed at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge near Cleveland, Tennessee.

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The Iran War is feeling much like Vietnam. A quagmire.

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"The Windowed Room"

An abandoned cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Destin, Florida

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A recent image from Boneyard Beach at Botany Bay on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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The bull elk which inspired my short story - “Going for the Shot"... https://t.co/J15ldzVAEk

A - real - photograph made on September 27, 2024 at 7:16 am in Cataloochee Valley within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Stepping outside my lane…

This on again off again Iran thing reminds me of Henry Kissinger and the ill fated Paris Peace Talks. In the end the North Vietnam won. And America lost.

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Other Lives, Other Lies https://t.co/gs0mKvCsje

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A photographer enters Cataloochee Valley chasing the elk image he has imagined for a year. He gets the shot — but first learns nature is not scenery waiting to be composed.

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A husband. A wife. A mountain trail in the Smokies.
What began as a hike became something else entirely.
A story about trust, perseverance, rain, and discovering you can still do hard things.

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Published my Southern Gothic trilogy on Substack..
Read - Asylum, Haven and The Subject Was Reclamation.
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"The Death of David Lee Harlan" - a short story.
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