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3rd Annual Atalaya Holiday Celebration at Huntington Beach State ParkThe 3rd Annual Atalaya Holiday Celebration was a beautiful celebration of Christmas in the old Atalaya castle at Huntington Beach State Park in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. The celebration brings out local businesses as they decorate each of the rooms inside the castle in a holiday theme showcasing their business’ talents and services. I also [...] |
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How I Got the Shot: Dancing at Night Without FlashShooting interior photos at night is tricky at the very best of times. People with cellphones and P&S cameras will leave the flash turned on, which blinds your eyes since they are dialed to the low ambient light. Your irises contract for a few moments after the flash, making it difficult to see anything. So [...] |
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Sunset After the Storm in Murrells Inlet, SCToday was a bit of a rough day. It started out with heavy rain, so heavy I couldn’t see my next door neighbor’s house just eighty feet away. Then came the severe lightning with thunder so loud it rattled the windows. Finally came the hail about the size of my thumb. But the last thing [...] |
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Atalaya Castle at Huntington Beach State ParkAtalaya Castle is the beautiful former home of the Huntingtons at Huntington Beach State Park in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. The castle is open for the public to venture inside, granting you views like the photo above. It’s located in a lush grove near the beach, close enough you can hear the waves on the [...] |
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The Charm of Murrells Inlet, South CarolinaMurrells Inlet, South Carolina, is known locally as “Restaurant Row” for all the seafood and steak restaurants on the short main drag through the town. But Murrells Inlet is much more than just a collection of local restaurants and shops; it is also home to The Marshwalk, several marinas which provide water entertainment for everyone, [...] |
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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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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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. [...] |