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Walking Through York, United KingdomLast August I spent a week in the United Kingdom. My intent was to shoot beautiful photography of the country in Norfolk followed by a leisurely trip through The Lake District and around the country to Wales and back to London. However, plans changed. I’ve been sitting on these photos for awhile now, though, so [...] |
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Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SCBroadway at the Beach is a premiere shopping, dinning, entertainment venue in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Opened in 1995 around the man-made Lake Broadway, this venue features dozens of shops, restaurants of a great variety, and a few entertainment areas such as Celebrity Square, the IMAX Theater, and Ripley’s Aquarium. I’ve spent a year shooting [...] |
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Greenfield Lake in Wilmington, North CarolinaGreenfield Lake is a large lake surrounded by wooded areas, homes, and a 4.5 mile walking/jogging trail near downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. A park just off Carolina Beach Road gives visitors a place to park, sit by the lake, or enjoy the tennis courts and playgrounds. |
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The Riverwalk in Wilmington, North CarolinaWilmington, North Carolina has many features: Airlie Garden, Greenfield Lake, nearby Wrightsville and Carolina Beaches, home to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and my favorite spot: The Riverwalk. The Riverwalk has grown over the years and now extends from the Isabel Holmes Bridge almost to the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. It passes along [...] |
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Waterfront Park in Charleston, South CarolinaWaterfront Park in Charleston, South Carolina, is a must-visit whether you are in the city for a day or a week. The park runs along Charleston Harbor from Queen Street to North Adgers Wharf. Inside the park you are treated to beautiful views of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point, [...] |
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Historic District of Downtown Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina is rich with history, culture, entertainment, and southern charm. Located along the east coast of the United States, the city is situated around the Atlantic Ocean, Ashley River, and Cooper River which also forms Charleston Harbor. Known as The Holy City because of it’s churches, Charleston long ago established a law forbidding [...] |
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The Summer of 2011 in Myrtle Beach, South CarolinaAnother summer has come and gone for Myrtle Beach, the most popular summer tourist destination in the country. Being a travel photographer living here I have certain advantages: I can spend hours photographing what others would have to rush through and I get the “inside scoop” on many places. With the summer now fading away [...] |
The Marshwalk in Murrells Inlet, South CarolinaMurrells Inlet, South Carolina, is known as “Restaurant Row” throughout the Grand Strand because of the number of restaurants and bars along the road. But it’s also known for The Marshwalk, a boardwalk that starts at a marina with a fishing pier, meanders along between about a half dozen restaurants and the water, and ends [...] |
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Campus Beauty Photos of Virginia Tech UniversityI recently spent a week in Blacksburg, Virginia, shooting photos of the Virginia Tech University campus. I came to the area on assignment to shoot another subject, but having grown up near here and attended Tech as a freshman college student twelve years ago I decided to show my old school some love. |
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Mabry Mill on the Blue Ridge ParkwayYesterday I hopped on the Blue Ridge Parkway for a short distance to grab some photos of Mabry Mill. It was a beautiful day, but also late in the season. Some of the leaves had started changing color and the vibrant greens of the grass and trees had dulled to a mixture between green and [...] |
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Garden City Beach, South CarolinaGarden City Beach, South Carolina is one of those quiet southern beach towns where you find more homes for rent by the week than hotel rooms, and more opportunities to just fish from a pier than dance at a night club. Garden City Beach stretches along a narrow peninsula just south of Myrtle Beach, still [...] |
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The SkyWheel Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel Myrtle Beach opened May 20, 2011 with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the first public daytime rides on the 187′ tall observation wheel. I began shooting photos months earlier during the construction of the SkyWheel, coming out once or twice a week to shoot the progress. Then, finally, the SkyWheel opened and I [...] |
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The USS Yorktown and Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mt. PleasantMt Pleasant, located just across the Cooper River from Charleston, is home to Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum. The feature landmark of the museum is the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier, now a museum and popular tourist destination for the area. This is one of my favorite places to visit as a photographer, and below [...] |
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Old Coal Towns of Southwest VirginiaAt one point in time, the coal towns of southwest Virginia provided an enormous income and living for families. Eventually, the coal production stopped and the old towns dried up. Today, these towns still exist, though the population has dwindled and the buildings have decayed. I took a little road trip through the area on [...] |
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The Blue Ridge Parkway From Grandfather Mountain to Mt. MitchellOn my way home from another photo assignment I decided to jump on the Blue Ridge Parkway for awhile and capture some photos. At first, I was supremely disappointed as clouds moved through the area. But by the time I’d gotten on the Parkway the skies were only partly cloudy. And chilly. It was amazing [...] |
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Lulu’s Cafe in Myrtle Beach, South CarolinaI was recently given an assignment by Budget Travel Magazine to cover a few interesting locations along the Boardwalk in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. While Lulu’s Cafe is not technically on the Boardwalk (just to the north on Ocean Blvd.), I was sent here to capture the essence of the little cafe. I was able [...] |
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Natural Tunnel State ParkNatural Tunnel State Park is a beautiful area nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia. About a 25 minute drive from Gate City and the terminus of Interstate 26. The park is infamous for the natural tunnel, which was carved through a mountain by a natural stream over thousands of years. Today, the [...] |
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Cheraw State ParkCheraw State Park is a beautiful park near Cheraw, South Carolina. I spent a couple of days here while in the Florence area shooting a Civil War reenactment. The park is divided into two main areas: the campground on one side of Lake Juniper (seen in the photo above) and the hiking trails, picnic areas, [...] |
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Galivants Ferry, South Carolina: Photographs of Horry County HistoryPhotography isn’t always about deadlines and schedules. Sometimes, it is rather spontaneous. Fluid. But as long as it tells a story, it is still amazing. I decided to run off to Galivants Ferry, a tiny little town in the north-western most part of Horry County, South Carolina. In fact, to call this a town is [...] |
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A Day Photographing Myrtle Beach State ParkI’ve lived in the Myrtle Beach area for months now, but I’d never been to Myrtle Beach State Park until yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised with how beautiful this oceanfront park was and even more so by the nature trails. Except for the occasional road traffic from nearby Highway 17, the nature trails were a [...] |
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Snow in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina!The forecast for today included up to 1″ of snow. Coming from a guy who grew up in the Appalachian mountains of southwestern Virginia I can tell you: one inch is nothing. But when that one inch happens to be in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina it means everything. |
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Huntington Beach State Park in Murrells Inlet, South CarolinaI recently took my new Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 lens out to Huntington Beach State Park in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina to shoot some photos. I had already been to the park several times before shooting wide shots at 50mm or 20mm to capture the entire landscape, but this time I wanted action. I wanted details. [...] |
