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Sunrise at Kill Devil Hills, Outer Banks, NC, Feb. 2020. Travel - and travel photos - are a great way to take a break from the challenges of life. Joy helps us stay resilient - enabling us to care for ourselves and others. . . . . #northcarolina #natureNC #ncphotos #beach #OuterBanks #KillDevilHills #Sunrise
June 7, 2020
On this day at 8:00 pm, the beach would close due to the impending presence of endangered piping plover chicks. Our beach pass arrived in the mail that same morning. Of course we had to use it.
It was cold and very windy, but it was beautiful out there.
Nauset Outer Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2020
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 11.
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A Spectacular Sunrise at Bodie Island Lighthouse
Dare County, Coastal North Carolina
Accessed via NC-12 (Outer Banks Scenic Byway)
Date taken: August 26, 2015
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Some artists avoid photographing icons and landmarks that are perceived as overshot or overcooked. There's an unspoken belief among some that photographing a landmark is a sign of laziness: an opportunistic photo that lacks creative vision and true artistry. While I understand the arguments (they're easy to find), I tend to disagree, at least at a foundational level. Vision is vision and it doesn't really matter what or where you apply it. In fact, if we're asking which is more difficult in general--to photograph a landmark or to photograph a lesser-known area--it will always be tougher to find fresh and unique ways to photograph an overshot landmark in my opinion. There's familiarity with viewers that will lead to less time spent in the frame; less tolerance for similarities they've already seen and studied multiple times before; less chance in general for anything less than a photographer's very best effort. I think a rounded vision of any place must involve both landmarks and off-the-beaten path locations. One without the other is less than the whole. Heck, maybe I just like photographing the lighthouses of the Outer Banks and I'm just getting windy with my excuse :-)
The evening before I took this photograph a wicked thunderstorm rocked the Corolla area where I was shooting with heavy sweeping rains. I actually had to pull off of NC-12 because, in addition to the lack of visibility behind the windshield wipers, the ponding in the roadway was deeper than I was comfortable with in my car. The following morning I awoke again to intense thunderstorms and hard rains. Driving through Nags Head towards the Bodie Island Lighthouse was one of those white knuckle find-the-white-line ordeals where rain outpaced the wipers and flashy lightning lit the sky. I was tired and frankly considered just turning around to get some extra shut-eye; it seemed a waste to think that the sun would rise with all of the storm activity I was driving through. Luckily I continued on down the highway and came to find a magical clearing around Whalebone Junction. The setup turned into one of the most amazing sunrises that I've personally witnessed at Bodie Island Lighthouse. Having spent the better part of a week photographing the iconic landmark from around back, I decided to capitalize on the fresh rain puddle around front instead to provide a different view. I hope that the resultant photograph is not a carbon-copy of an overseen location, but something somewhat new and fresh from a familiar place--a place that continues to captivate me regardless of popularity and number of photographs logged.
June 7, 2020
On this day at 8:00 pm, the beach would close due to the impending presence of endangered piping plover chicks. Our beach pass arrived in the mail that same morning. Of course we had to use it.
It was cold and very windy, but it was beautiful out there.
Nauset Outer Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2020
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 11.
No use without permission.
Please email for usage info.
Took both the old 300D and the 50D to my first SF beach excursion. Now they both smell like campfire.
50D w/ 50mm (1.4f@1/30th)
Raining here today....thought I would play around with some older shots. The horizon is centerd...but I kind of like it that way with this one....Hope everyone has a great Thursday ; )
Larger view on black.....B l a c k M a g i c