My dream has always been to overwinter along the coast: to spend the cold months beachcombing the Outer Banks and Cape Hatteras National Seashore of North Carolina. For the past two years, I've made that dream a reality. The Outer Banks of North Carolina are a...
PUBLICATION: Our State Magazine ARTICLE: Island Time PHOTO USE: One-page and 1/4 page spreads, pages #54-55It's always fulfilling to get an opportunity to place images in Our State Magazine. So many of the places and memories of my own life have occured within...
Photography is a game of vision, and vision is unique to each photographer. How each of us views a place is some complex derivation of personal experiences, learned knowledge, and personal attributes—all of which cannot be duplicated, only...
I had the great opportunity to work with the folks over at Landscape Photography Magazine to showcase one of my favorite places to photograph, the Outer Banks of North Carolina. While much has changed along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore since I was...
YEAR IN REVIEW 16 Memories for the Year 2016 Mark VanDyke, Photographer 7 December 2016 This year more than any before I began to understand that it's not about the image for me personally. I stopped obsessing about getting the image or wondering about how I'm going...
Hermine. That was the monster that lingered on the forecast for Labor Day weekend. Being an outdoor photographer, of course I was heading towards the storm instead of away. Only this time it wasn’t necessarily by plan. My mother and I booked a weekend of...
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...
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...
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...
Magazine - Our State: Down Home in North Carolina Issue: December 2013, Volume 81, Number 7 Story: A Prayer For North Carolina (p.76) My first official publishing opportunity for commission, this was a really exciting opportunity. Our State Magazine utilized a...