"PowerHouse Ministries"

This evening I was shooting some promo work for Chris who heads up PowerHouse Ministries. My set up was two off camera Canon 580EX II speedlites triggered by a mini pocket wizard and shooting in high speed sync allowed me to capture the subject as well as the killer sunset sky. This image has almost the same feel as an HDR image but this is only one exposure. Camera is my Canon 5D Mark II along with a 16-35mm wide angle lens shooting low to the ground. I like being able to use this set up on location because it is light weight, fast to set up and break down and I can handle it all myself without an assistant. If anyone wants any further info give me a shout.

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"February the Month of Changes"

"The Old Truck"

Time has a way of passing you bye if your not careful to document it along the way. For the last 32 years I've pointed my camera lens at many different scenes, life styles, objects, beauty, destruction, and wildlife while living on the Outer Banks of Carolina. I've witnessed the changing seasons, storms, heat waves, droughts, winters that never seemed to end and every year it's been this month of February that I love the most. The reason it never fails to give us the winter we wish would end along with a week of spring like temps to assure us that just around the corner our beaches will come alive and all that is new will cycle thru again.

"A Currituck Landscape"

I spent many years snow skiing Snowshoe, Killington, Brice, Wintergreen, Blue Knob on the east as well as Aspen Highlands, Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, in Colorado, Snow Bird, Solitude, Park City and my favorite Alta in Utah. It's safe to say I loved to play in the powder.

Now that my knees have harden I'm find behind the glass showing off the white stuff, no matter what the subject is.

"Nesting"

And then came week two of February 2011 with temps lingering in the low 60's, this means short sleeve shirts, exposing what was once tan skin now a powdery pale at best but who cares it's short sleeves man ! Outside is the place to be we've got eagles laying eggs, green blades of grass begining to shoot up from the frozen tundra (well maybe not so frozen) anyway there was 3-4 inches of fresh snow a couple of days ago pictures prove it.

"Ground Foliage"

For the last two days I have spent the entire day morning to sunset shooting ducks, swans, turtles, you name it, if I saw it I had a lens on it. I truly enjoy shooting all sorts of photography but I have to say I'm at peace alone in the woods, down in the marches, or just walking around searching and watching the many species of wildlife that inhabit our islands, and seashores.

"The Coot"

For the past two evenings the sunset light has been fantastic turning the marches into golden reeds sometimes as if on fire bouncing off the water as blue as the skies above. Here a Coot swims thru stopping from time to time munching on the new grasses under the flooded impoundments as their stop over will soon be ending in a few short weeks. Well there is no need in hoping for spring to start now knowing that winter is taking a little break before reminding us not to put away our foul weather gear but none the less I for one have taken full advantage of God's handy work as often as I can.

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"OBX Landscapes"

"West Side"

Here is another image just as the snow stopped falling. As I mentioned in my last post I spent the morning looking for those images of the Outer banks that are totally opposite of the normal beach scenes. This image is the old boat house in Kitty Hawk near the bridge. I wonder how many thousand times I passed by never pointing a lens in it's direction???

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"OBX February Snow"

"Winter Home"

February on the Outer Banks and yet another snow fall. This one got all the photographers out looking for that one image to add to the collections. I really wanted to hunt around for some images that were a little bit off the normal path so with my snow boots on I went exploring a bit and came across this wood duck habitat as the snow was ending. Like an artist painting photography beckons for composition and a subject that draws the viewer into the story it tells.

This image pulls the eye from left to right sliding down the angle of the tree trunks and the roofs of the ducks house as well as pushing from right to left.

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