Photo Experiments: Steel Wool, Flashlights, and Long Exposures
I saw a cool video (wish I could remember where; I’d give the guy credit) about doing long-exposure camera shots of burning steel wool. You put the wads of steel wool in the end of a whisk that’s attached to a cable, and use a 12 second exposure to capture the sparks thrown off from [...]
Photo Caption Contest #1
Update 2: Reader dee provided a couple of good ones, including this: Update: Here’s a couple of good entries from waffle44: “Flipper, come back! – we love you!” and “This is not what I expected when I bought the ‘Swim with the Dolphins’ excursion” I took this photo when I was at Corolla (that’s ka-’rah-luh, [...]
Ultralight aircraft at the beach
These were cool. In all the years we’ve been coming down here, I haven’t seen these before. With the winds gusting the way they do sometimes down here, getting these things aloft seems pretty dicey.
Beautiful
Can’t beat the view at sunset. These were taken with my iPhone, so they’re a little grainy.
Corolla Vacation – the kayaking incident
My nephew Chris brought down a couple of kayaks. He has a larger one, and another smaller one that he bought for his wife, Courtney. He and Josh were out this morning on the water, trying to ride the waves into the beach. Josh got tossed from Courtney’s boat, and the thing was launched by [...]
Corolla – The sand is different, but “the beach” is the same
We noticed when we were here last month that storms over the winter had one a fair amount of damage. Lots of stairs had been wiped out, and the dunes looked like they had taken a real beating. A little further south near the Currituck Club, we’re seeing more evidence of the same. There’s a [...]
