Charred logs can make an interesting background for macro photo subjects. The wood tends to take on interesting textures when burnt. Sometimes the pattern is repetative, sometimes it’s not, but it can be quite spell […]
Category Archives: General Photography
Cape Lookout Lighthouse
Usually when I visit the Cape Lookout National Seashore it’s to observe and photograph the Mustangs living on Shackleford Banks. The other morning, however, I visited Core Banks instead to get a few photographs of […]
Potato Vine, Morning Glory
A member of the Morning Glory family the Potato Vine flower is a fairly commong sight along eastern North Carolina country roads this time of the year. I couldn’t resist taking a few shots of […]
Smoke on the Water
It’s been an interesting early summer around the Crystal Coast. Many mornings I wake up to find a thick covering of smoke and fog. To the northeast of us a forest fire has been burning […]
Abandoned
It doesn’t take long for nature to take back that which man leaves behind. Here is an old wooden boat abandoned in a canal along a local marsh. Without question it is quickly being reclaimed […]
Happy Fourth of July!
As we celebrate the birth of our nation and the red, white and blue, our tricolored flag, I thought an image post of a Tricolor Heron might be appropriate. While it’s colors aren’t a perfect, […]
Green Heron
Green Herons are an interesting bird. Or at least I think they are. I suspect that most people think of a tall bird on long, towering legs when they hear the term “heron.” The Greenie, […]
A Storm Approaches
The other evening I realized a storm was moving in and with it some very dramatic skies. There are few things I enjoy more than creating a nice, moody black & white image that includes […]
High-key Black & White of a Wild Horse
I was paddling the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve this morning and I see this horse standing alone, several hundreds of yards from the rest of the mustangs. I’m not sure what it was doing there… […]
Anachrophobia!
I’m not one of those photographers that will go out of their way to shoot spiders and bugs. There’s nothing wrong with that kind of photography, it just isn’t a genre that has great appeal […]