As a kid, my family always went to the Outer Banks in the heat of summer. I came to love the Outer Banks during summer. First, it was simply spending all day long in the waves. Not coming out until my eyes were bloodshot and my skin sunburned. Then, it was...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
There are advantages and disadvantages to setting up base camp at different locations throughout the Outer Banks. The purpose of the project is going to dictate optimal location. For me, however, all things equal, Manteo is the best of the best. The only...
By the time August rolled around I was pretty down. It's not unusual for the summer months to be a bit of a downer for me from a photography standpoint as I try to hunker down and save money and energy for the coming autumn blitz. However, this was year two as a...