Frisco Beach: Opastetut kierrokset ja aktiviteetit

"Yin and Yang"

I was at Cape Hatteras last month to try and capture a sight of one of our heavenly visitors in the night sky - Comet Catalina. The comet is somewhat unique since this would be it's only ever visit to the inner Solar System before being ejected to interstellar space forever. It was by no means an easy target to locate and photograph in the night sky especially for someone who's never done that before.

But this is not about my attempts at capturing Comet Catalina (although I did manage to view and capture it). After I was done looking at the comet, I settled by the beach next to this pier, one of my favorite places on the North Carolina Outerbanks, to hear the ocean's mesmerizing soundtrack. I still had about 2 hours to go before sunrise and so I was just sitting and enjoying the unseasonably warm winter in December and just looking at the stars, Venus, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky. I suddenly noticed this big cloud about 5 minutes in streaking just below bright Venus. On a hunch, I decided to capture an image to see what the cloud looked like and a short 15 second later, I saw the start of what turned out to be one of the most perfect sunrises I have borne witness to. The cloud had started to just pick up the first rays from the sun, with about an hour and a half to go before sunrise.

I love the juxtaposition of every single element in this image. The fading of the night sky and stars with Venus shining valiantly as the sun comes back to herald the start of another day, the stretch of unbroken cloud over the hurricane damaged pier and the sheer beauty created in an otherwise damaging act of Mother Nature (the hurricane, not the sunrise :) ). This duality is what inspired the title of the image.

If you're near the NC coast, this location is a must stop. It is close to the town of Buxton and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.

Thank you for stopping by.

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"The ghosts of yesteryears wander amidst the ruins seeking eternal salvation..."

That is the very thought that passed through my mind the moment I laid my eyes on this image on my computer screen. The ghostly silhoutte of the torch bearer and the mist at the base of the pier and the ruined pier add the necessary atmosphere to make this image dramatic to my eyes.

This image has been taken at the Cape Hatteras Fishing Pier, also called the Frisco Pier. It was damaged by Hurricane Earl a few years ago and now mostly serves as a tourist attraction. It might be torn down eventually (I hope not) but for now, it's worth a visit.

This is close to the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, which is another location worth a visit.

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Pier broken by a hurricane, makes for a lovely photo - on Cape Hatteras, NC

Another capture from my series at Cape Hatteras Fishing Pier. I've always wanted to capture an image from under the pier but I've never had the right lighting or conditions to make it stick. On this day, everything clicked to let me capture an image that I'd visualized from the very first day I started taking photography seriously.

This image is a blend of 3 exposures to bring out detail in a highly dynamic scene and has been processed using luminosity masks in Photoshop. Luminosity Masks are the one of the most powerful tools I've ever used and it really does make a huge difference to the end result.

I visited the Graveyard of the Atlantic museum that is just down the road on this trip. It has a fascinating history of all the shipwrecks that have happened around the Outerbank Islands and has pictures and artifacts from some of the actual wrecks themselves. If you like scuba diving, you can actually dive to some of the wrecks themselves.

Thank you for stopping by.

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Koe Frisco Beach

Activities

Suositut vierailukohteet

Cape Hatterasin majakka

Voit oppia lisää kohteen Buxton paikallisesta historiasta, kun piipahdat kohteessa Cape Hatterasin majakka. Vaella tämän viehättävän alueen kauniilla rannoilla.

Hatteras Village Park

Tutki luontoa kohteessa Hatteras sijaitsevalla ihastuttavalla viheralueella Hatteras Village Park. Kuljeksi alueen rannoilla tai hakeudu kalastuspaikoille.

Village Marina

Tutustu kohteessa Hatteras sijaitsevaan satamaan Village Marina. Kuljeksi alueen rannoilla tai hakeudu kalastuspaikoille.

Hatteras Harbor Marina

Tutustu kohteessa Hatteras sijaitsevaan satamaan Hatteras Harbor Marina. Kuljeksi alueen rannoilla tai hakeudu kalastuspaikoille.

Buxton Woods Nature Trail

Kun matkustat kohteeseen Buxton, sinun kannattaa varata aikaa vieraillaksesi kohteessa Buxton Woods Nature Trail. Vaella tämän viehättävän alueen kauniilla rannoilla.

We had a nice time at Graveyard of Atlantic Museum in Hatteras.

They show cased the Cape Hatteras First Order Fresnel lens that was recently discovered.

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (museo)

Kun lomailet kohteessa Hatteras, voit viettää aikaa katselemalla näyttelyitä kohteessa Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (museo). Vaella tämän rentouttavan alueen kauniilla rannoilla.