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  • Shutter Saturday: The Jug Handle Bridge

    The Jug Handle Bridge is a recent addition to the Outer Banks. It goes into the Sound, then curves back towards land to disembark at the Rodanthe Roundabout. The reason is pretty simple: The Outer Banks is eroding and sinking, and the people that live there insist on living in a Short Term Paradise and need a bridge to get them there.

    But the bridge is so new it’s almost white, and very stark and minimal. On the day we were there, it was practically a clear day. It almost looks like a bridge to nowhere. It’s a clean, elegant photo.

  • Shutter Saturday: Girl In The Dunes

    From our trip to the Outer Banks, this person was just sitting in the grass on top of the dunes reading. She began to turn her head as I started taking pics, I don’t think she was aware I was shooting her. The other two shots have her looking up into the sky with the back of her head towards me. But this…

    I am the last person to tell you that my photos are worth a damn, but I love this shot.

  • Shutter Saturday: Hatteras Surfers

    Right across the parking lot from the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is a BEAUTIFUL beach, that has had less than ten people on it every Saturday Morning I’ve been there.

    One surfer totally made me as I was taking photos. I wanted to call him Ken, but he had a surfboard, his job is more than beach.

    However, I thought you might like to see these since this is one part of my trip to OBX that didn’t flame out.

  • Shutter Saturday: September 9th, 2023

    The leading lines were just too tempting. This is from the Boat Ramp on Shore Drive at the Lesner Bridge.

    Taken with iPhone 12. That’s my daily driver now, it’s a better camera than my T5i.

    Also, much less conspicuous than a big black camera for street photography, where I need more practice.

  • Photo: Pungo Ferry Bridge at Sunset

    Kim and I take the long drive down to Knotts Island every so often to get out of the house, as one does when you work from home. Beautiful Sunset yesterday, I decided to take a slight detour to the Pungo Ferry Boat Landing and see if there was anything worth capturing.

    Turns out there was.

  • Photo: Oreo Is 24/7 Shade

    I’ve never known a cat to have RBF until this one came along. This cat is all shade.

  • Photo: Oreo is getting sick of your games

    Human, this is clearly mine. Stop the BS.

  • Photo: Chic’s Beach Storm

    Recent trip to Chic’s Beach as a front was coming through. Tried a lower angle on this shot to get your eyes to follow down the beach a bit. There are more than a few stories about this place that I could tell, and at least one them involve hoping the folks at 3556 On The Bay where ‘every place is a penthouse’ (If I remember the circa 1985 marketing of the place when it opened) couldn’t see me in the later hours of the night / wee hours of the morning.

    That’s all you get, use your imagination.

    iPhone 12, can’t remember if I used the Moment app on this or not.

  • Photo: An Unexpected Dragonfly

    When editing photos of the thunderclouds over the weekend, I took this photo as a companion to the VB Convention Center photo from June. The curves complement each other. What I hadn’t expected is my little winged friend in the photo. A happy accident, which I’m happy to share with you. Taken with iPhone 12, edited in Lightroom.

  • VB Convention Center Abstract

    black and white photo of the VB Convention Center glass front, camera tilted up towards the roof.

    Taken with iPhone 12, 26mm/1.6