Custer State Park 0126, 09/23/2019

Location: Custer State Park, South Dakota, USA Date/Time Captured: 09/23/2019 @ 11:13

Galley Head Lighthouse 0009, 10/18/2017

Location: County Cork, Ireland Date/Time Captured: 10/18/2017 @ 14:57

Valentia Island Lighthouse 0004, 10/15/2018

Location: County Kerry, Ireland Date/Time Captured: 10/15/2017 @ 07:55 One of those locations on the trip where I could easily have spent twice as much time shooting as was the case. The variety of compositions seemed endless.

Ballinskelligs Abbey 0009, 10/14/2017

Location: County Kerry, Ireland Date/Time Captured: 10/14/2017 @ 14:34 This was a location I didn't immediately warm up to. After an initial slow walk around/through the abbey structure itself and looking for compositions of it or grouped with some of the headstones, I was feeling a little lost in what to shoot. It wasn't until I was able to see it, or at least parts of the site, as part of the broader landscape that something clicked.

Ravenel Bridge 0026, 08/08/2016

Location: Charleston, SC, USA Date/Time Captured: 08/08/2016 @ 20:43

Folly Beach 0023, 08/07/2016

Location: Folly Beach, SC, USA Date/Time Captured: 08/07/2016 @ 06:29

Frisco Pier 0146, 04/04/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/04/2016 @ 07:02 I took to repeated hummed the same verse of "Here Comes the Sun" as the sun popped over the horizon after shooting the stars for the last couple hours of the night. It was good to have it appear and bathe the scene in it's warm glow and cast those l-o-n-g shadows across the beach.

Nags Head 0038, 04/03/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date Time Captured: 04/03/2016 @ 07:13

Bodie Island Lighthouse 0110, 04/02/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/02/2016 @ 20:02 This turned out to be a 'Bodie Day' for me. Captured a decent long exposure mid-day when it was completely overcast, got lucky to snag a couple decent sunset shots, and then knocked this one off after the sun went down. Though the cloud cover had cleared, it was still v-e-r-y humid. And the resulting 'lighthouse dog' surrounding the light itself resulted from the front of my lens having become fogged over while I was shooting...and not catching that right away. Sometimes, such 'mistakes' work in our favor!

Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse 029, 07/15/2015

Location: Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/15/2015 @ 06:07

Bodie Island Lighthouse 0112, 07/13/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/13/2015 @ 07:10

Avalon Pier 087, 07/11/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/11/205 @ 07:10

Avalon Pier 001, 07/11/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/11/2015 @ 06:15

Dillard Mill Historic Site 042, 06/06/2015

Location: Captured: 06/06/2015 @ 10:33

San Francisco Skyline 001, 06/03/2006

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Date/Time Captured: 6/3/2006 @ 20:43

MIssouri Botanical Garden 0056, 04/13/2019

Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/13/2019 @ 10:02

Baltimore Beacon 0006, 10/18/2017

Location: County Cork, Ireland Date/Time Captured: 10/18/2017 @ 12:35

Ballinskelligs Castle 0064, 10/14/2017

Our group had arrived at this location a good half hr or so prior to sunrise. And though you can probably guess from the cloud cover that an inviting sunrise color event didn't happen this am, the session still turned out to be probably my most productive on the County Kerry portion of the trip. You will find at least a few other shots from this session included on the site (assuming you're interested enough to seek them out :) ).

Balllinskelligs Abbey 0005, 10/14/2017

Location: County Kerry, Ireland Date/Time Captured: 10/14/2017 @ 14:11

Folly Beach 0032, 08/08/2016

Location: Folly Island, SC, USA Date/Time Captured: 08/08/2016 @ 07:17

Cades Cove 0068, 04/05/2016

Location: Great Smoky Mountain National Park, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/05/2016 @ 08:22 This shot was a bit of a surprise and unplanned. I had come here to Sparks Lane in Cades Cove to capture the blooming dogwood as early in the am light as possible. And as I was wrapping up that shooting, I just happened to look off to the right over the fence line where I'd been shooting and couldn't help but be intrigued by the fence line and what was left of the early morning light.

Friso Pier 0066, 04/04/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/03/3026 @ 04:49 Had to get up e-a-r-l-y on this morning to make the roughly hour drive down to Friso Pier for some astro and Milky Way shooting. It was just late enough for this one that the Milky Way had disappeared, but as it was just the beginning of blue hour, there were still some stars present, the moon was setting just over the pier's shed, and the very earliest colors of sunrise had appeared.

Nags Head Pier, 04/03/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/03/3026 @ 07:02 A very peaceful sunrise session on the beach at Nags Head Pier by myself.

Bodie Island Lighthouse 0038, 04/02/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/02/2016 @ 18:20 Earlier in the day, it had been totally overcast at this location. A half hour prior to this shot, it was broken up fairly well (see previous post), but still fairly cloudy. And at sunset became a thing for the day, only a few 'scud' clouds remained.

Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse 001, 07/15/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/15/2015 @ 06:37

Bodie Island Lighthouse 0080, 07/13/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/13/2015 @ 06:54

Avalon Pier 082, 07/11/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/11/2015 @ 07:03

Bodie Island Lighthouse 0056, 07/10/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/14/2015 @ 06:08 This sunset/astro session was my first serious attempt at capturing the Milky Way. My fave shot of the session even though the MW itself is significantly obscured from view by some clouds.

Cades Cove 005, 04/17/2012

Location: Great Smoky Mountain National Park, USA Date/Time Captured: 4/17/2012 @ 07:06

Tintern Abbey 0018 - 10/20/2018

Location: County Wexford, Ireland Date/Time Captured: 10/20/2017 @ 11:16 A created 'Hitchcock Moment'. While shooting from this location at the Abbey, we did view such a moment. Unfortunately, I didn't capture that one 'live'. So decided to have a little fun with the shot and create my own version of it in Photoshop. And while I was at it, I figured I may as well give it bit of an eerie vibe as well.

Valentia Island Lighthouse 0028, 10/15/2019

Location: County Kerry, Ireland Date/Time Captured: 10/15/2017 @ 08:49

Ballinskelligs Castle 0013, 10/14/2017

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Ravenel Bridge 0063, 08/08/2016

Location: Charleston, SC, USA Date/Time Captured: 08/08/2016 20:22 The Ravenel Bridge was one of the locations we shot as part of a 'Long Exposure Workshop' in the summer of 2016. We had spent one session here during the workshop, and I returned solo a couple days later. The first session....though I captured some images I like well enough...wasn't exactly conducive to long exposures as the clouds present were SO slow moving that it was almost impossible to see they'd moved at all in a 30 second exposure. This evening's session started out pretty much the same. But just as I was beginning to consider wrapping the session up, these 'scud' clouds, as I call them, appeared and were just scooting across the sky. With the very last vestige's of sunset color present, and accented by the city lighting that had come on, all the waiting proved worthwhile.

Folly Beach 0035, 08/07/2016

Location: Folly Island, SC, USA Date/Time Captured: 08/07/2016 @ 06:51

Cades Cove 0029, 04/05/2016

Location: Great Smoky Mountain National Park, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/05/2016 @ 07:41 This location in Cades Cove is a very popular one with photographers...especially in spring when the little dogwood hiding under the big oak is in bloom. The blooming dogwood, some fencing, a gravel road, and some early morning light made for an intriguing capture. The one element of this scene that could have made this better yet would have been some low lying fog. But Mother Nature did me kind this am even without the fog.

Frisco Pier 0242, 04/04/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/04/2016 @ 04:33 Trying to capture the Milky Way requires a photog to either......1) stay out very late in the evening, or.....2) get up in the middle of the night to get on location well before the sun comes up. I chose the latter for this session. Though my Milky Way capture/processing skills are not my best suit, I think I spent a couple hours here on this particular morning working the Milky Way ops along with sunrise. Good start to the day!

Currituck 0008, 04/03/2016

Location: Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/03/2016 @ 09:28

Bodie Island Lighthouse 0004, 04/02/2016

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 04/02/2016 @ 17:45 It had been totally overcast earlier in the day, but quite conveniently, the cloud cover started to break up as evening approached and started to throw some warm evening colors on the scene. Being able to capture a reflection of the lighthouse in a rather large 'puddle' (small lake?) on the grounds was icing on the cake.

Avalon Pier 0037, 07/14/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/14/2015 @ 06:08

Whalehead Club 0021, 07/12/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/12/2015 @ 14:02

Avalon Pier 065, 07/11/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/11/2015 @ 06:45

Bodie Island Lighthouse 0008, 07/10/2015

Location: Outer Banks, NC, USA Date/Time Captured: 07/10/2015 @ 20:16

San Francisco Aquatic Park 013, 06/04/2006

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Date/Time Captured: 06/04/2006 @ 16:42