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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...
Photo of the Day: January 28, 2022
Maritime forest is a beautiful anomaly in the Outer Banks. Forests that are impacted by the ocean. Nags Head Woods is one of the largest examples. Owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Nags Head Woods Preserve has over eight miles of hiking trails open...
Photo of the Day: January 27, 2022
The forecast on this morning was for freezing ground fog. I couldn't recall a similar forecast. Consequently, I wasn't sure how to choose a sunrise location. So, I played it safe. By first light I was out behind the historic Bodie Island Lighthouse in South Nags...
Photo of the Day: January 26, 2022
What are the best conditions to photograph a lighthouse? Worthwhile question, or wrong question all together? I'm leaning towards this question being worthless. Every place--every subject--has different faces, different personalities and different characters at...
Photo of the Day: January 25, 2022
I was not prepared to photograph wildflowers during the month of January. I simply didn't think anything would be flowering at the Outer Banks in the heart of winter. Much to my surprise, however, whenever a warm day or two was in the forecast, the front yards of...
Photo of the Day: January 24, 2022
What the small village of Duck, North Carolina lacks in public beach access it tries to make up for with beautiful soundside parks. A one-mile, elevated wooden boardwalk snakes around the shores of the Currituck Sound and through retail shopping centers over an area...
Photo of the Day: January 23, 2022
The only way to naturally expose the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse as the brightest subject in the frame is to shoot the lighthouse during predawn, before the sky and the sun dominate the frame. Any subject photographed looking into the sun will be a silhouette....
Photo of the Day: January 22, 2022
When I first floated the idea of an extended winter stay in the Outer Banks, my primary curiosity was whether I'd be able to shoot worthwhile landscapes given the dormant landscape features. It turns out, everything on the ocean side looked similar. The soundside,...