Morgan & Krystle | Wedding
I recently was able to help out a good friend, Joe Sadlo, as a second shooter at a wedding he was shooting in Beaufort, NC. I have got to say, weddings are infinitely easier to shoot with two shooters. To anyone out there getting married, pay a little extra to get an extra shooter at your wedding. The results will be so much better with your photographer not having to worry about missing something. Plus, the multiple angles and ideas they come up with together are invaluable!
Anyway, back to the photos. The wedding and reception were held at a favorite spot of mine on the Beaufort waterfront - Queen Anne’s Revenge. The restaurant made a great backdrop for the evening and you can’t beat a wedding and reception right on the water!
Here are a few of my favorite frames from the night:
Sunset in Paradise | Beaufort, North Carolina
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This was shot a little over a month ago when my family was visiting here in Eastern NC. We headed over to Beaufort to walk around the waterfront, visit the many shops and eat dinner. This unseasonably warm afternoon and evening gave way to this truly awe inspiring sunset over the Beaufort Inlet.
The Shot: Nikon D90, 18-105 Nikkor lens, handheld. 3 exposures, tonemapped in Photomatix. Tonemapped file masked back with the three original exposures in Photoshop.
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Riding Off Into The Sunset | Beaufort, North Carolina
I admittedly don’t spend enough time hanging out in the town of Beaufort. It’s a great historic little town with a lot to see and photograph. Like a lot of places like that, it took family coming into town to get us out there and exploring. After a failed attempt to take a ferry over to Cape Lookout (unseasonable warm + off-season makes things like that a little chaotic) we decided to visit Beaufort and walk around the waterfront and see what there was to see. After checking out some great little shops, we were met with a fantastic sunset over the Beaufort Inlet.
One thing that we all were delighted to see were the huge number of migrating birds flying over head and into the sunset. It was quite a sight to behold. Further up the waterfront, I put a longer lens on and was able to get some geese flying in formation behind the tower of a Hatteras yacht. It was a great end to a memorable day with my family.
The shot: Nikon D90, 18-105 VR Nikkor @ 50mm. Singe exposure, f/11, 1/200 sec.
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The Old Burying Ground | Beaufort, North Carolina
In preparation for Halloween, a friend and I visited the Old Burying Ground in Beaufort, NC last week. The oldest cemetery, in North Carolina’s third oldest town, was established in the early 1700’s with the oldest legible grave stone dating to 1756. The oldest part of the cemetery was also, to me, the most interesting and best to photograph. It was not only very crowded, but overgrown and spooky looking. Peeking into the brush that had grown up around the trees, you could see more grave markers, long forgotten. A little known fact that I learned was that most of the grave sites face east, as the families of those buried there in the early years wanted their loved ones to face the rising sun on the morning of judgement day.
Some notable, and creepy, grave sites:
- Vienna Dill (1863-1865): Died of yellow fever and was buried in a glass topped casket. The child would later be exhumed by vandals and reburied after her body ‘disintegrated’ upon opening of the casket.
- An officer in the British Navy who died in port at Beaufort. He was buried standing up, facing England and saluting the King.
- A mass grave in which the sailors of the ‘Cassie Wright’ are buried. They froze to death in January 1886 when their ship ran aground.
- A little girl who died at sea during a voyage from England with her father. He had promised her mother that he’d return her home safely, however she died at sea. Rather than being buried at sea, she was preserved in a barrel of rum so that she could be returned home, as promised. Her grave site is distinguishable because of the pile of toys and gifts that visitors leave there.
- Captain Otway Burns, great privateer during the War of 1812. He sailed from Nova Scotia to South America, plundering British ships all the way. His tomb is marked by a canon from his ship, The Snapdragon.
There are many others buried here including soldiers of the American Revolution, War of 1812 and Civil War, as well as a grave marked “Here lies the remains of the settlers killed in the Tuscarora Indian War; September 1711.”
On my visit, the sun was bright and the sky was cloudless. I can imagine that as conditions change, the Old Burying Ground changes as well. I’m looking forward to visiting again with some more dramatic light to shoot!
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Where Boats Go To Die | HDR Panorama
This odd little inlet in Beaufort, NC has many boats anchored in it. Most seem to still be in use but just anchored, but many seem to have been anchored for years slowly being claimed by the salt water. When the tide goes out, many boats sit on dry land only to be set afloat again when the tide comes in. This day was particularly windy as you can see by the clouds and grass, causing the boats to bump and bounce about. It appears to be the place where ‘Boats Go To Die.’
HDR panorama composed of 9 individual 3 exposure images.
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