Hunting Island in Black & White

Nerd alert!!  

These two photos are the same.  The only difference is that the top one is from a RAW file that I processed in Lightroom and converted to b&w with Nik software.  The bottom one is a JPEG that was shot in camera as a b&w with a red filter.  I can't decide which one I like better.  Probably the top one.

Rainy Day At The Beach

I made a lot of black and white photos while we were down south last week.

Seahorses

Hunting Island, SC.

Hunting Island Fog

We went out to the beach this afternoon and found some awesome fog.  It had been sunny until we got to Hunting Island, where it looked like a cloud had dropped out of the sky and covered the island.  It made for some great photography.

The Hunting Island Five

I'm missing the beach again.

Hunting Island Storm

A storm rolls into the south end of Hunting Island last Friday afternoon.  That storm had some of the most vivid lightning and loudest thunder I've ever seen or heard.

Hunting Island Palmettos

An Ocean Without Waves

I couldn't decide which version I liked better, so I put up both.  This is a 50 second exposure at f/16 and ISO 100 with a 10 stop neutral density filter.

Marsh Stars

Here's another attempt at photographing star trails.  I went out to the marsh boardwalk on Hunting Island Saturday evening.  It was cool, but humid and the bugs...THE BUGS!!!!  I just set my camera up on the boardwalk and let it run while I went back and sat in the van away from THE BUGS.  I only ended up with about 40 good photos because some fog rolled in and got on my lens and made everything hazy. 

Hunting Island, SC

A "cool" day at the beach last week.  It was windy and probably about 50 degrees.  That's a huge heat wave compared to now.  Right now, as I'm writing this post it's 4.6 degrees.  That's Fahrenheit! 

Hunting Island, SC

This is the first dead dolphin I've ever seen and I hope I don't ever see one again.  I talked with the guy on the backhoe about what he thought may have caused it to die.  He said he wasn't sure, but we could see where it had some cuts and scratches and he thought it may have been in a fight and had gotten some kind of infection.

Starry Night

Jupiter shines bright over Hunting Island, SC on Friday night.

Black and White Sunday

A couple photos from today that I like (I'm probably the only one).  The trees are at the north end of the lagoon on Hunting Island and the lagoon is directly behind the dunes where I made the photo of the fence.  It was very overcast this afternoon, so that light lent itself to making the photos black and white.

Hunting Island, SC

Saturday afternoon at the beach. 

Hunting Island, SC

The sea was angry today my friend....

A Good Day At The Beach

Tuesday afternoon at Hunting Island.

Hunting Island

We haven't been to the beach since Christmas.  It's nice to be back.

Hunting Island Snags

Over the last 20 years the island has eroded back into the forest of Hunting Island.

Hunting Island Tooth

We weren't even looking for shark teeth when Molly glanced down and spotted this beauty.

Fripp Inlet...

...lit by the almost full moon.  The water there is full of dolphins and I could hear them blowing and splashing but I couldn't see them because it was a lot darker to me than to the camera.  It was really cool to be there listening to all the night sounds in the quiet darkness.

This is a two shot panorama taken about 9PM with an exposure of 30 seconds at f/5.6 and ISO 1000.  Click on the picture for a better view.