A couple of days ago I posted some photos from a sunrise over Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. In the text included with that post I mentioned a bias that tended to discourage me from shooting […]
Tag Archives: Crystal Coast
Seagulls in Flight
To those of us making our homes along the coast gulls are a very common sight. You see them almost everywhere. To many they’re little more than pests. Locals call them names like “Sky Rats,” […]
Sanderlings
These little birds are in a state of constant motion. It’s really quite entertaining to watch them dart in and out of the surf as they search for food. Sanderlings are always a hit with […]
Atlantic Beach Sunrise
To be honest I don’t shoot many sunrises or sunsets. I suppose I have a bit of a bad attitude about them. Somwhere along the line I read something about those types of shots being […]
Shorebird Variety
I encountered a variety of different shorebirds on my morning paddle several days ago. Some of them I was able to get a nice variety of shots, allowing a post about each. Others, however, I […]
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Herons are the big birds of the salt marshes. In spite of being the largest bird in the marsh I find these beautiful creatures to be some of the most skittish as well. […]
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
I went for a paddle this morning. Near the end of the trip I came upon a very cooperative juvenile Little Blue Heron. I was surprised at how close he allowed me to drift in […]
Autumn Hold Out
I visited the Pine Cliff section of the Neusiok Trail yesterday afternoon. It’s really amazing to see how hurricane Irene resculpted the landscape along that section of trail. While I have hiked a portion of […]
A Couple of Herons
The other morning I was encountering birds that were a bit more skittish than usual. I was able to get a few shots of a Great Blue Heron and its smaller cousin, the Tricolor Heron. […]
Cormorant
They’re not exactly pretty, not even cute, but they do make interesting photographic subjects.