The Outer Banks of North Carolina
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Mothers are so good. This one was carefully watching me while the little ones grazed. It looked like they were heading to the beach. This was in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Clearing Storm after Hurricane Joaquin passed
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You never know the beauty in back of you. I was photographing the beautiful sky over the Bodie Lighthouse and when I turned around this is what I saw.
A panorama of 10 images stitched together in Photoshop CS6. Handheld, I wish I had done a better job of including more foreground. But then, the sky!
Trying to creep closer to those ponies. Thankfully, he caught me creeping, and not in my patented, "Squat and Shoot," position.
Hatteras Lighthouse, Hatteras Beach, Buxton, Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA.
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Hatteras Island Gazebo Over Pamlico Sound
Dare County, Coastal North Carolina
Accessed via the Outer Banks Scenic Byway (NC-12)
Date taken: October 28, 2013
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This past autumn my folks were nice enough to let me tag along on a short vacation where they stayed in a rental home that included a private boardwalk and gazebo above the Pamlico Sound on Hatteras Island in North Carolina. The Albemarle-Pamlico Sound is the 2nd largest estuary in the United States at roughly 30,000 square feet of water surface (behind only the Chesapeake) or, as some sources say, the largest "lagoonal" estuarine system in the United States (not sure yet what lagoonal changes--more research needed!). Essentially, the Sound is a mixing area of fresh water from the state's rivers and salt water from the Atlantic Ocean. Shallow by all standards, the average depth of the Pamlico Sound is about twelve feet, with the deepest hole reported at only twenty-six feet in depth. In totality, the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound is quoted as being a "key resource base" for the state and for the southeast, with primary industries such as commercial fishing, tourism/recreation, and resort development relying directly on the quality of the resource. At present, the EPA sites the largest threats to the water body as non-point (agriculture and urban development runoff) and to a lesser extent point source runoff. However, the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound has been rated good to fair based on fairly recent testing. A tremendous resource for photographers as well I would say!
On a photographic note, despite being attacked by very ambitious mosquitoes every evening, I was hoping to capture a later-evening shot of this scene with a boat's light trail speeding by in the channel just to the rear of the gazebo. Never happened, but I still think the idea would have been solid!