Copyright Nathan Montgomery, 2008
North Carolina's Outer Banks are a treasure unknown to most Americans. While some of our neighbors to the south have beaches more familiar to Tom in Topeka, I wouldn't trade our state's coastline for any in the continental U.S.
We spent the last several days with good friends in one of North Carolina's really wonderful beach towns- Salvo. A lovely place to spend a week anyway, the border islands were made even more beautiful than usual this week by blooming wildflowers along the pristine beaches of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
With sailing, swimming, biking, running, and so many other things on the agenda, I didn't spend a lot of time taking pictures this week. However, one morning, I did sneak away for about an hour to snap some shots of a field of wildflowers still wet from overnight thunderstorms. Strong winds off the sound made my work a bit challenging. I needed high ISO settings and wide open apertures to get the shutter speeds necessary to handle dancing flowers. The resulting short depths of field left me with a lot of blurry images, but a few shots had some redeeming qualities, including this one.
With sailing, swimming, biking, running, and so many other things on the agenda, I didn't spend a lot of time taking pictures this week. However, one morning, I did sneak away for about an hour to snap some shots of a field of wildflowers still wet from overnight thunderstorms. Strong winds off the sound made my work a bit challenging. I needed high ISO settings and wide open apertures to get the shutter speeds necessary to handle dancing flowers. The resulting short depths of field left me with a lot of blurry images, but a few shots had some redeeming qualities, including this one.
3 comments:
I love the lighthouse shot. I went to Galena yesterday with my camera and came back with no pictures worth keeping. After looking at them, I deleted them all. Your photography has set the bar high, and I will save a lot of disk space because of it. Welcome back Nate.
great shots. i love the lighthouse shot as well.
Thanks, Dave and Bernardo.
The flower shot looks a little washed out with an unfortunate bluish hue on my browser. I'll try to see if I can manipulate the image so that the vivid colors shine through.
And Dave, you are too nice. I hope that you don't keep deleting all of your shots. I'd love to see them. You live in a pretty area.
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