Sea gulls are as ordinary as rats but they sure can strike a bitchin pose…

I had the pleasure of photographing this enchanting event on December 23rd. Hats off to Scott Fray, Madeline and all the rest who poured their spirit into this fabulous production.

It took 9 hours for Scott,  Madeline and Tiffany to paint this model and my Nikon 1/125th of a second to capture it. Throw in a bit of Photoshop processing and ,voila, a pretty interesting shot. Learn more about Scott and his beautiful work by clicking here.

I took this shot this weekend at my buddy’s magnificent cabin overlooking the mountains in Grayson county Virginia. The sun was beginning to set low casting a somewhat red cast on the already reddish oak leaves which are among the last leaves to change and fall. The flattened effect of a telephoto brings a different view to this scene and the quiet pattern of nature reveals herself like a painting. I like this shot!

I took this shot at 4 am this morning (to avoid traffic) facing a bridge over the Yadkin river across from Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, NC. I’ve always wanted to catch those cool looking reflector plates you see with your headlights so I aimed my motorcycle high beams and hand held this shot with an 85mm f/1.4 lens wide open. It’s not sharp but the dabs of light still articulate the saturated colors of the reflectors and the car moving in the midst of it give it more relevance. Not what I expected but a decent surprise perhaps.

Every night around 7 pm, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of swallows come to roost for the night in downtown Winston Salem at the Millenium Center across from the bus station. This is my first attempt to capture these interesting birds against a backdrop of the moon and the emerging dusk sky. More to come…

Two kids running and spinning in a colorful cylinder. Kinda trippy, kinda cool.

The sky was interesting today and as much as I would rather do less landscape photography, sometimes I just have to. Here is a case in point – a tobacco field near Elkin, NC.

Catching water in motion at the right moment can reveal both its beauty and  force. If you’re an electronics nerd, think of it as capturing both current and voltage. I used an LED flashlight to catch this shot from water spewing from a common garden hose. No need for color here so I also converted it to grey scale.  A slow shutter speed also captured the little orphan sprays near the nozzle and they kind of resemble electrons or something like that.  Sometimes you don’t have to look further than your own back yard. That’s what Dorothy said anyway.