Adventure and perspective from the field

After college, Morley joined the photography staff at The Times-Dispatch, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won numerous state and national awards. His work also appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Newsweek.

“Photojournalism is who I am, what I love very much,” he said. “I am passionate about it.”

Morley started writing “Photoadventures” five years ago, gleaning material from the notebooks he saved during his decades with The Times-Dispatch. “Many of the stories were rough drafts with notes and quotes,” he said. 

Photographers often say their photographs are like their children: all unique in their own right, making it impossible to pick a favorite. Morley is no different, but he does have a few adventures he loves to recall – especially his assignment at White Tail Resort, a family nudist colony in Virginia’s Southampton County, where he had to embrace a clothes-free attitude while working.

“It was a bizarre story,” he said. “It’s a whole other world.”

Memorable for other reasons was a three-week trip to Africa for a story on Baptist mission work. Morley visited two large camps for refugees of the Rwandan civil war; Baptist missionaries were among many nonprofits helping the displaced. One camp was in Tanzania, and the other was in Goma, Zaire (since renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo).