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Photo Of The Day: Cotton Field at Dawn

The pink, almost red sky gives a decided pink hue to the cotton ripening in the field. Click on the shot for the large view.  Thanks for the look and have a great weekend.

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Photo Of The Day: Electric Dawn

We call the dawn this time of year Masterpiece Theater.  If there’s a cloud or two anywhere near the horizon be you can bet its going to be a grand encounter for the eyes.  Such was the case this past...

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Photo Of The Day: An Autumn Morning

One of those made to order Autumn scenes that just begged for a photograph. The pink clouds against that pale blue sky along with the rustic color of the frost bitten grass, the light glow of the...

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Photo Of The Day: Sunrise in High Cotton

I’m hitting you with a lot of pictures of cotton in Eastern North Carolina but aside from fields of soybeans here and there, Cotton rules here this time of the year.  A virtual tide of cotton has...

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Photo Of The Day: Bruce The Magnificent

Say hello to Bruce The Magnificent, Rooster Extraordinaire. My wife says Bruce raises enough hell for a dozen Roosters.  “He deserves his 15 minutes of fame on the internet”, she says.   So here is...

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Photo Of The Day: Reed Section

Reeds along a ditch bank at dawn making their own soundtrack. Sort of a free form whistling thanks to the stiff breeze off the ocean.  Thanks for the look and have a great evening.  Click on the...

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Photo Of The Day: Cotton Moon

I was amazed there was no blur in this shot.  It was pretty chilly that morning and the wind was pretty brisk off the ocean and there I was with no tripod and a Nikon D700.  It’s a pretty heavy...

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Photo Of The Day: Autumn Dazzler

Sunrise in the Bradford Pear Trees here on the farm.  These are always good for several shots each year: in the fall when the leaves turn a brilliant orange and red, in the Winter when it snows and in...

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Photo Of The Day: Ocean Sunrise

I’ve taken thousands of pictures on the Outer Banks but this one ranks as among my wife’s favorites.  Me too.   It’s a time exposure with the Nikon D90 Camera and a Sigma 10 to 20 mm lens.  It’s proof...

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Photo Of The Day: Pink Lightning

One of the cotton fields just before sunrise on the 1st of December.  It was almost completely overcast when I got to the field and I started to chuck the whole thing and head home but a gleam of...

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Photo Of The Day: Requiem For Sunflowers

This has a rather haunting quality about it I think.  Look close and you can just barely make out the golden disc of the Sun coming from behind a cloud and burning through the fog.  We always leave...

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Photo Of The Day: Wake Up Call

A flashback to warmer days. Sunflowers anticipating the sunrise in July. Thanks for the look an have a great weekend.

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Photo Of The Day: Under The Live Oak

……on a bright, sunny, cloudless day.  The Live Oak  dominates Center Grove in the middle of the fields here.  It is home to a private cemetery for North Carolina Infantry Veterans of the American Civil...

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Photo Of The Day: Sunset Over the Dunes

The sun slowly descends behind the barrier dunes as another day on the Outer Banks of North Carolina draws to a close.  Sunsets over the Currituck Sound which separates the Outer Banks from the North...

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Photo Of The Day: Red Alert

You’ve no doubt heard the saying “Red Sky in the morning…..” You know!  This call to general quarters came Saturday morning at daybreak. The nasty stuff moved in that night.   Thunder, lightning, high...

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Photo Of The Day: A Place In The Pines

The skies here in Eastern North Carolina for most of this past week have been pretty much cloudless which makes for rather boring sunrises and sunsets. Such was the case yesterday morning but I could...

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Photo Of The Day: Sunset at Southern Shores

A view of the sunset over Currituck Sound from the Beach at Southern Shores on the Outer Banks of NC.  The clouds coupled with the waning sunshine made for a rather spectacular light show.  Thanks for...

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Photo Of The Day: Cotton Harvest

The Cotton Harvest got underway over the weekend.  This is about the latest harvest anyone here can remember.  The delay was due to the extremely wet weather; so wet the heavy equipment could not get...

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Photo Of The Day: A Taste of Snow

It was just a trace. Barely enough to coat the ground. But it was snow,  something we have not seen here in several years. By Wednesday afternoon it was pretty much gone except for a few patches of...

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Photo Of The Day: At the Edge of Dawn

The full moon begins its descent as dawn approaches in Twilight Field. Click on the Photograph for a larger view. A time exposure using a Nikon D7100 Camera and a SIgma 10-20mm lens. Thanks for the...

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