This is another shot from Artsplosure. I started to convert this to a straight black and white shot in Nik Silver Efex Pro, but decided that the colors were too good to throw away. So I added the selective coloring and muted the colors a bit. It has the look of a hand tinted photograph [...]
The way the bright colors contrast with the sand and water makes this scene attractive to me. It was a very bright afternoon and this actually turned out better than I thought it would.
I believe this is a variety of coleus, but I’m not positive. When it comes to plants, if there isn’t a placard giving the name I’m completely clueless. Regardless, I thought this was a nice display in the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, North Carolina. These gardens are part of the park that includes the theater [...]
The Ocracoke Light is the smallest of the four lighthouses on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. At 75 feet above sea level, the light is still visible for 14 miles to sea. Small as it is, I think this is actually the most picturesque of the four, especially when the former light-keeper’s home is included in [...]
This is the Bodie Island Light on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I shot this in the early morning, and what you see is a happy accident, because I was getting attacked my mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds. I was so miserable I snapped off a couple of quick shots and headed back to [...]
