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Posted in general, news, travel reports on Oct 30th, 2009
This past weekend the CNPA Outer Banks Region had an overnight outing to Ocracoke Island and Portsmouth Island, barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. We all had a great time, and we were lucky with some rain-free days. It seems most of the days lately have been cloudy and wet. Here are a couple of images [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Aug 13th, 2009
This past weekend we had a CNPA Outer Banks Region monthly outing to the sand flats near the Bonner Bridge on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. We arrived early in the morning so that we could capture the sunrise. Once the sun came up, we are able to see that the black skimmers and least [...]
Posted in nature photography, travel reports on May 11th, 2009
This past Saturday we had a CNPA Outer Banks Region outing to Merchants Millpond State Park located in northeastern North Carolina in Gates County near the town of Sunbury. The millpond has large bald cypress and tupelo gum trees covered with draping Spanish moss. Most of us who went rented canoes and paddled around the millpond taking [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Mar 23rd, 2009
Wanchese is located at the southern-end of Roanoke Island in North Carolina. It is a working harbor with commercial fishing boats and boat building companies. Last Saturday morning, the CNPA OBX Region had our monthly outing at Wanchese. We were there before sunrise in hopes of taking some sunrise pictures. Unfortunately, there were lots of clouds in the [...]
Posted in general, nature photography, news on Mar 17th, 2009
I just returned from a long weekend in Charlotte where I attended the CNPA Annual Meeting. We had lots of great speakers including the great nature photographer, Frans Lanting. I have to say his “Life: A Journey Through Time” presentation was by far the best photography presentation I have ever seen. Frans joined forces with composer Philip [...]
Posted in general, landscape photography, nature photography, travel reports on Feb 18th, 2009
Last Saturday members of the CNPA OBX Region got together for our monthly outing which was at Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge in Hyde County in North Carolina. There were not a lot of birds on the lake as most of the waterfowl had started to head back north, but we still saw some tundra swans [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Dec 8th, 2008
Recently, I have been appointed Co-Coordinator for the OBX (Outer Banks) Region of the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association. This past Saturday morning the OBX Region had an outing to Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We had a great time, and we were blessed with some nice weather. Several of us photographed a group [...]