"Endless Summer"

It's so good to have an evening off to shoot for the pure fun of photography. I have to honestly say I don't know of any other place that I would rather live than here on the Outer Banks. So Pea Island was the location as the sun began it's decent for the day. The wind blown sand, the rolling texture of the dunes, the small sand fence that still remains exposed, the clouds falling towards the west as the suns warmth reflects off the east side, what a way to end a great day on our island. Thank you God for your perfect art work.

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"The Art of Photography"

Once again shooting families enjoying our beaches is pure fun. Normally I don't post shots of myself but this one is too cool. Captured by my assistant during our evening client session a couple of nights back. My assistant just got her new camera and I set it up for her and she followed my settings as we went thru our shoot. She has a raw talent for composition and that is special in our business of photography. Then I showed her some editing techniques to start off with and this was her shot on the left and the exact image I shot of our client as she shot me. What made her image special to me is not just the sky which was a given but she nailed my flash going off making this image, as well as the cool sand sculptures on the left.

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"Good Morning"

Morning Sea Oats

Our morning began with a very impressive giant red ball sunrise as it made it's way thru a layer of clouds on the horizon. As I was cruising along the beach road I found these three sea oats atop the dunes overlooking the ocean. As you can tell this is not the original shot to say. It is but with a few strokes in the PS (photoshop) darkroom I wanted to create a more or less artsy image and wa-la here is the outcome.

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"Grandson Time"

"At the Zoo"

My grandson Isaac is just a couple of weeks from turning two and he is a bundle of joy and love.

Yesterday we took a drive up to Virginia and visited the Norfolk Zoo, what a nice zoo it was full of things to do and animals to see. They also had a train ride which is his favorite thing of all, here is a photo of Isaac, me and one of the giraffe's as we were making our way around the sites.

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"Pelican Portrait"

"Brown Pelican Portrait"

Yesterday I had a meeting with a client who is purchasing a number of my prints. One of which is this portrait shot of a brown pelican I shot last summer on the beach. After resizing the original print to 24 x 24 I couldn't resist to play around with this one again. A few months back I started to take some of my images and grunge or dirty them up a bit, some images work out and some don't but the effect is quite cool when it does.

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