Crab Pot Sunset | New Bern, NC
It has been a while since I have had some free time to go out and leisurely shoot, but I had a chance to go out and do that at sunset on Monday night. I always shoot the same vantage points in New Bern, so I made it a point to venture out and find a new spot. When I arrived at this place, I totally forgot about finding a vista for the sunset and was drawn right into this pile of crab pots. The golden light hitting them from the setting sun is what pulled me right on them.
The shot: Nikon D90, Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 lens. 1/10 sec, f/16, ISO-250.
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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Morning Reflection
This past weekend I went fishing with a friend of mine and we stopped at a really neat spot on the creek right here in New Bern that I never knew existed. The calm, deep water just screamed ‘there are fish in here,’ but to make a long story short, we caught nothing.
Several days later, early in the morning, I noticed that there was a nice fog hanging in the air. My mind first went to this spot on the creek and I headed out the door expecting to see an eerie low fog on the water. As you can see, that wasn’t the case. In fact, the air was quite smoky from a wildfire burning up the coast from us. Thanks to HDR, I was able to bring out some sky in this image. The calm water made for some fantastic reflections though.
I look forward to catching that elusive low fog over this scene one of these mornings!
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