Tag Archives: Outer Banks

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More Wet & Wild Horses

Here are a few more shots of the horses crossing from island to island the other day.

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Rachel Carson Reserve Horses

While visiting the reserve the morning before Christmas I made a few photographs of a stallion and his one mare. At the moment the herd is broken up into individual bands called harems. The harems […]

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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 […]

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Wild Horses of the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve

Here’s a few shots from an early autumn morning visit to the reserve. All of these wild horse photos were taken from the cockpit of my kayak.

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Horses on the Tidal Flats: Kayak Based Photography

There are two things I really enjoy doing; kayaking and photographing wild horses. When I combine the two it’s almost nirvana. This morning I made it to the flats enough ahead of the incoming tide […]

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Wild Horses on the Tidal Flats

I made the short paddle across Taylor’s Creek this morning then hiked to the flats to photograph the horses. There was a definate chill in the air as the sun peeked above the islands but […]

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Gulls: Easily Overlooked by Photographers

When you first visit or move to a coastal location you’re fascinated by these ever present birds. You see them everywhere and you’re awed by their grace in flight and willingness to beg for left-overs. […]

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Horses on Horse Island!

Anybody that’s read many of the articles on this blog know’s I enjoy visiting the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve. On every trip that I’ve maded I’ve never seen a single horse on “Horse Island.” In […]

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Young Wild Mustang on Shackleford Banks

I recently visited Shackleford Banks to guide another photographer on his quest to photograph the wild horses. During our visit we were blessed with getting to observe and photograph one of the younger members of […]

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Black Skimmers

The Black Skimmer is another shorebird I’m simply fascinated with. Like the Oyster Catcher they have a similar black and white coloring with bright orange bills. I find it especially interesting to watch them skim […]

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