I was having dinner Saturday night with Mitzi (my ex) and she told me she was going to do something cool on Sunday, but it was not my time of day. I asked what it was, and she said that as part of the sixtieth anniversary of the mile high suspension bridge at Grandfather Mountain,...
Actually the tide had been coming in for almost 2 hours when I shot this. I would have been 15 to 20 feet under water at high tide. Look at the rocks and you can see the high tide water level. Hopewell Rocks, on the Bay of Fundy are a spectacular natural wonder that most...
Seemed like it took forever to get here, but I made it to the northern tip of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Will be shooting in Nova Scotia for the next few days, so more should be on the way. This rocky sunset is an HDR composite of 7 bracketed exposures. This...
Everyone should have a Yankee friend they’ve never met. Mine is Bob Lussier, a fine photographer from Massachusetts, who helped me with some technical and design issues when I started this blog. Recently, Bob vacationed at the beach in North Carolina and even spent some time taking pictures of Old Baldy, the lighthouse on Bald...
As you can see, I’m not in Hickory anymore. Or Asheville. Took a short trip to the beach and ended up on Bald Head Island for an afternoon of shooting. I climbed the stairs to the top of Old Baldy, which is the oldest lighthouse on the North Carolina coast. This window is about half...
Here’s another shot from Saturday night in Asheville. I walked around the downtown area for a couple hours looking for interesting things for high dynamic range (HDR) composites. This very ordinary parking deck on Rankin Street looked like a good possibility, so I set up my tripod and shot nine exposures from 1/5 of a...
With no champagne to filtch (an inside joke – you know who you are) I took my dark mood to Asheville on Saturday evening for a few hours of night photography. I ended up outside a dark chocolate paradise, the french broad chocolate lounge, and made this HDR composite of nine separate exposures. How many...
While everyone else was watching the Bears, Seahawks, Patriots and Jets, I managed to get my butt off the sofa and head to the mountains with a friend for the afternoon. This scene near Valle Crucis, NC caught my eye. There was even a small patch of sand where I could kneel down and set...
