I just can’t get enough of these beach sunset beach shots but I promise this will be the last one for a while! As soon as we hit the sand I knew that I had to work on getting two things in my images: sunbursts and rippled sand. The shadows that the setting sun was creating in the sand were really too much to resist and I was totally mesmerized by them. The possibilities for compositions using the lines in the sand were endless but we had...

You never know what the day will bring. Zach Frailey, David Baker and I were trolling around Emerald Isle, North Carolina on a Saturday in March scanning the skies for any glimpse of something that might resemble a cloud when we spotted a smoke plume on the horizon. We drove for what seemed like miles before we finally found a place we could pull off to get a better view. All the while high winds were spreading this plume into a blanket that...

Hard to believe it’s already April, this year is disappearing way too fast! March was a really productive month photographically speaking. I took a weekend trip to the North Carolina coast and spent some time shooting with “The Uprooted Photographer” Zach Frailey and “HDRtist” David Baker. The next weekend I rented some big glass from Borrow Lenses that I used to shoot the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor...

Last week I posted the first of a series of sunset photos from Emerald Isle, North Carolina. After processing with the other images from this trip and finding a style more suiting to my liking I decided to reprocess this image and share the results. The biggest difference is obviously in the sky where I was able to pull out the details of the smoke that was making its way across the sky that evening. Personally, I like this version much better...

On our last day in New Bern we decided to get together at Union Point Park for sunrise. After the sun had peaked above the horizon, we spent some time shooting around the piers that protrude out into the Neuse River. This is a 20 second exposure that I shot with my B+W 10-stop filter. Gear: Canon EOS 60D, Tamron AF 10-24mm, B+W 10-stop Filter Software: Adobe Lightroom 3, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Topaz Adjust 5, Topaz Black and White...