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The French Quarter Inn

This morning I spent a few hours shooting some detail images for The French Quarter Inn on Church Street downtown.  It was hardly a chore seeing that it is one of the nicest hotels in Charleston.  Here are a couple of them.

Lava Lamps

I’m playing catch-up I know, but these are some images from a visit to the Ripley’s Believe it or Not Aquarium in Myrtle Beach last weekend.  Honestly, I think our Charlston Aquarium is just as good, if not better, but it was fun, and photographing such different subject matter under such different environmental conditions was a challenge.

Weekend in Myrtle Beach

I spent this weekend at the annual Carolina Nature Photographers’ Association meeting which was held in Myrtle Beach this year.  Good speakers, great company, fine weather, too much food, and too little sleep.  Here are a few shots taken on the beach after sunset on Saturday evening.

Cold Folly Dawn

I really didn’t want to get out of bed on a Saturday morning at 6am but I had resolved to join a photographer friend out there to see if we could photograph some bird activity or maybe dolphins strand feeding in the river.  As it turned out, we misunderstood each other and I was at the County Park end of Folly and he was at the Morris Island end.  I didn’t stay long because it was COLD.  I was testing some warm clothing that I had bought recently for my upcoming Alaska trip in May, and everything kept me pretty warm except my gloves which were totally inadequate and my hands quit functioning after awhile.  I still need to work on that.

A Fog Fetish

I admit it – I have a fog fetish.  There’s something so surreal, eerie and mystical about fog that silently swirls over and through everything, now concealing, then revealing glimpses here and there.  As a photographer it is irresistible. You can take photo after photo and each one will be a little different depending on where it lifts or settles.  Anyway, it was thick this morning, and these are some images I took of the neighborhood on my way to work.

Folly Beach County Park

I had been meaning for some time to do some long exposure photography of the remaining pilings of what was once Folly Beach County Park.  I needed a dull day with little light and a high tide.  Yesterday evening fit the bill nicely, but upon arrival, I was dismayed to find no trace left of the pilings and walkways.  I guess CCPRC considered them a liability nightmare (rightly so), since they could have crashed down anytime and hurt someone.  The image above shows absolutely no trace of what once was a favorite family destination.  

This is what was there after the storm but before it was taken down.

and More Fog ..

This has been such a glorious weekend, but very unusual for mid January.  Daytime temperatures in the mid ’70s and mild nights.  The early morning fog trend has continued for the past few days. There’s something mysterious and eerie about fog, how it rises, dips, and rolls though its passage. Sometimes it whites everything out except what is right in front of you, and so it gives the appearearance of things being suspended in nothing, like these docks above.