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Timescapes Meet-Up August 2016: Day Seven, Farewells, and Thoughts
Day seven. Our last full day at Glacier National Park. We wanted to get absolutely everything out of it, so, we were up by one in the morning and at the trailhead by two-thirty in the morning. I've always been very comfortable outside in the wee hours of...
Timescapes Meet-Up August 2016: Day Six
The morning of day six opened with great promise. The night before we had all sat around the table at the rental home and discussed various plans in terms of where to go and what to see. Our destination was concrete. We were going to split into a couple smaller...
Timescapes Meet-Up August 2016: Day Five
Day five opened with the drumming of rain against the outside of the rental home. Several half-awake and questioning faces emerged from various rooms into the main living space where I was sleeping on the sofa. An efficient but effective, “go back to sleep” from our...
Timescapes Meet-Up August 2016: Day Four
Day four. Time to get back up on the horse. I logged some quality shut-eye on a surface that wasn’t rolling at seventy-miles an hour (pretty sure I didn’t move from the time I laid it down to the moment my alarm woke me!). I was excited to get myself back in the...
Timescapes Meet-Up August 2016: Day Three
Day three began with a twist. Lots of them actually. As we pulled out of Yellowstone National Park following sunset the road became narrow and mountainous, ascending and descending what must have been some pretty dramatic terrain (we couldn’t see much on account of...
Timescapes Meet-Up August 2016: Day Two
The heavy lifting of east-to-west travel behind us, day two departed South Dakota during the dark hours of evening. It was clear, however, that we were not the only group descending upon the roads: motor homes, pickup trucks and motorcycles were commonplace along...
Timescapes Meet-Up August 2016: Day One
I recently returned from a photography adventure with the guys over at Timescapes (Bernard Chen & David Nguyen). The ultimate destination for this meet-up was Glacier National Park in Montana (a personal dream destination for me). The particulars read something...
Published: August 2016 Our State Magazine
I'm honored once again to have had the opportunity to contribute in the August 2016 issue of Our State Magazine with a photograph of the Fisherman's Net House along the Manteo Waterfront in the Outer Banks. Each month the magazine choses three photographs, one from...
Published: June 2016 Our State Magazine
I'm very pleased to have another opportunity with Our State Magazine this month, June 2016. This is my third month in a row of working with the magazine and I couldn't be more pleased with all of the stories and their collective geographic reach: April a photograph...
Published: May 2016 Our State Magazine
I'm honored to once again have had the opportunity to contribute to the May 2016 Coastal Issue of Our State Magazine. My photograph of the Bonner Bridge as it crosses Oregon Inlet--a critical link between the Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean--was paired with the...
Published: April 2016 Our State Magazine
I'm honored to have another photograph in the April 2016 issue of Our State Magazine (pg.#152-153). To be completely upfront, sometimes photographs accompany stories that are far from the reality of my own life and circumstances as the photographer; I'm overjoyed,...
Photo Essay: A Morning with Mark VanDyke Photography
Morning. The best part of my day. In those early hours, anything is possible as the world awakens to a fresh start, a new chance to finish a lingering task, resolve a problem, reach out to an old friend, or to rest a tired body and mind. ...
Year in Review: 15 Images for 2015
In the hustle and bustle of year-end business activities there is always one that I look forward to: the year-end image review. Neither good nor bad, the year-end review gives me the opportunity to be reflective on an entire year's efforts in the field. I recently...
From the Field: Western North Carolina Autumn 2015
Deflated. That's how I feel about my autumn season if I'm being totally honest. Worn out. Tired. It was a massive effort this go-round. More miles--both automobile and on foot--than ever before. Perhaps the hardest part is the knowledge that I put forth so much...
From the Field: Cape Cod National Seashore September 2015
Disoriented. That’s the feeling I had when I arrived on the Cape this past September for the first time. I had the opportunity to travel north to Cape Cod National Seashore with my sister (visiting from Alaska) who was attending a conference in Brewster, Mass. ...