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Photo of the Day: February 12, 2022
I saw a photograph by Susannah (@lulannah) on Instagram of lichen on an American Holly tree within Nags Head Woods Preserve. The lichen was bright red and spread in patches of varying intensity over the light gray bark of the tree. It was amazing! I was instantly...
Photo of the Day: February 11, 2022
Day two of showing Kristi Parsons around the Outer Banks began with lots of potential. The calm conditions from the night before held on over night; the forecast called for reflective sunrise conditions. Skies were crowded with clouds. Everything was lining up...
Photo of the Day: February 10, 2022
In 2019 I teamed up with Kristi Parsons to put together a 2020 Spirit of the Southern Appalachian Mountains calendar. Kristi's efforts to sell the calendar were so successful that we decided to use the profits to spend a week in the Outer Banks, a place Kristi had...
Photo of the Day: February 9, 2022
In 2013 I lived in an apartment in Upstate South Carolina. Whenever the forecast showed snow for the mountains of Western North Carolina, Whiteside Mountain is where I would rush off to. It was a straight shot up the sinuous NC-107. Whiteside Mountain is the...
Photo of the Day: February 8, 2022
The Outer Banks are part of a lichen biodiversity hotspot. I had no idea! I'm familiar with lichens from my work in the Southern Appalachians, often considered the crown jewel of lichen biodiversity in this country. But, the Outer Banks? It turns out that the...
Photo of the Day: February 7, 2022
When I started landscape photography I was pretty damn naive (perhaps I still am). I wanted to catch every sunrise and every sunset without fail. I figured, I'll simply outwork everyone else. I'll be up early and out late; I'll walk further on the trail, or I'll...
Photo of the Day: February 6, 2022
The dominant landscape of my hometown region is not natural but urban. Northern Virginia is right on the border with the capital city of Washington D.C. When I'm not packing a tent and overnighting in the Southern Appalachians or along the Carolina coasts, the...
Photo of the Day: February 5, 2022
Walking the beach is like treasure hunting, at least for me. Every single night the entire physical landscape is washed and stripped. Changed. New tides bring forth new treasures. The ocean redistributes this wealth in accordance with weather, winds, tides etc....
Photo of the Day: February 4, 2022
February 2021 was exceptionally wet in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It rained. And it rained again. All that water needs to go somewhere and there's nowhere really for it to go on a sandbar with a high water table. No sewers and streams and rivers to carry...
Photo of the Day: February 3, 2022
I want to be better at photographing intimate scenes. Like many, I chased grand landscapes when I began my career as a full time photographer. The grand landscape was the quickest and straightest route. In many respects, the grand landscape was a trail I felt I had...
Photo of the Day: February 2, 2022
It's said that purple holds both the energy and intensity of red, as well as the calm and authority of blue. In fact, purple has the shortest wavelength of all colors making it more powerful and intense than any other color, even red. In the natural world purple is...
Photo of the Day: February 1, 2022
I grew up in Northern Virginia, a classic bedroom suburb of Washington D.C. Here, the dominant landscape feature is the Potomac River. Just fifteen miles upstream of the Nation's Capital, the Potomac River approaches the fall line: an abrupt geologic transition...
Photo of the Day: January 31, 2022
"This whole house, wildly out of place as it appears to the uninitiated, is a monument to things wild, bold, and beautiful." --Bryan Mims in Our State Magazine The Whalehead Club is a 21,000 square foot hunt club and home located in Corolla, North Carolina. Built in...
Photo of the Day: January 30, 2022
You've probably heard this warning many times: don't leave a scene until the last light extinguishes! I was shooting the Oregon Inlet and newly constructed Marc Basnight Bridge in early January 2021. Winter's long night was fast approaching. The sky was gray and...
Photo of the Day: January 29, 2022
There are four types of Whelk shell that I run into when beachcombing Cape Hatteras National Seashore: the knobbed whelk, the pear whelk, the channel whelk, and the lightning whelk. This is a Lightning Whelk shell. Similar to knobbed whelks in appearance, it's only...