SmugMug > keywords > obx > Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
DailyPhoto 11-28-2009 


Just an old fashioned sunny, blue sky day, aim-at-the top-and-shoot lighthouse shot by Patti. The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is just so beautiful there is just no way I know of to take a bad shot of it.

From Wikipedia:

The Outer Banks are a group of islands on the North Carolina coast that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the coastal sounds and inlets. Atlantic currents in this area made for excellent travel for ships, except in the area of Diamond Shoals, just offshore at Cape Hatteras. Nearby, the warm Gulf Stream ocean current collides with the colder Labrador Current, creating ideal conditions for powerful ocean storms and sea swells. The large number of ships that ran aground because of these shifting sandbars, including the Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor, gave this area the nickname “Graveyard of the Atlantic.” It also led Congress to authorize the construction of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse which is recognized by the National Park Service as the tallest lighthouse in America.
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SmugMug > keywords > obx > Little Flag in the Dunes   
DailyPhoto 11-22-2009

We came across the beach access boardwalk....no one else around....and there it was....waving in the ocean breeze.....a bit tattered.…..a bit faded....but there…..all alone behind the windswept dunes…...standing proud in the autumn sun. 

Was it rescued by someone out of respect from the storm debris on the beach?  Was it a military memorial to a loved one whose ashes were long ago scattered into the sea .....or was perhaps lost at sea?  Or could it have just been a thoughtful patriotic gesture?  We may never know....but we do know….. it was a beautiful sight.     

The flag was more faded than it looks here, but I could not stand it looking that way, so I poped it a bit. Dan
SmugMug > keywords > obx > Kids...whatdahya  gonna do with 'em!
DailyPhoto 11-20-2009

Oh sure.....make a funny face at the camera.....ruin Patti's cute little fawn portrait shot!  

This is Patti's Outer Banks capture from last Sunday near Bodie Island Lighthouse. This cute little guy was feeding by the side of the road when we went into the lighthouse area, and he was still grazing there when we were leaving. 

So we stopped, and Patti gets out of the truck and begins to take a few pictures. 

I saw the deer raise his head, and I yelled  to Patti from the truck, " Get that shot, he finally has his head up!"  A short while later, I heard Patti just start laughing. I couldn't see the deer as well as she could because she was looking through a long lens, and when I asked her what was so funny she said, " He just stuck his tongue out at me!
SmugMug > keywords > obx > Reading the Break....Gathering the Nerve
DailyPhoto 11-19-2009

When we arrived at the Outer Banks Sunday, the ocean was still rolling pretty big from the Nor'easter that had raged for the past several days, as you can see from the waves in the background and the sea foam in the foreground. Patti spotted these three young surfers down the beach a ways and took a shot of them, along with another interested observer  :-),   with her long lens.
SmugMug > keywords > obx > Blue and Gold
DailyPhoto 11-18-2009

This was a very small vineyard we passed on our way to the Outer Banks on Sunday. The colors of the yellowing grape leaves against that blue sky got our attention, so we did a u-turn and  went back for a few shots.
SmugMug > keywords > obx > Patti at the Bodie Island Lighthouse
DailyPhoto 11-15-2009

Be careful, the ink is not dry on this one yet . We just got back from the Outer Banks about an hour ago.  Most of the flooded areas we wanted to shoot were barricaded and off limits or just hard to get to.  So we went to Bodie Island Lighthouse. They just completed this really neat boardwalk/nature trail from the lighthouse to the sound that ends in a tall platform for viewing the sound.  I snapped this shot of Patti as she was zooming in on some egrets in the sound, with the lighthouse in the background, and processed it as soon as we got home for our Daily.
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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
DailyPhoto 11-28-2009


Just an old fashioned sunny, blue sky day, aim-at-the top-and-shoot lighthouse shot by Patti. The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is just so beautiful there is just no way I know of to take a bad shot of it.

From Wikipedia:

The Outer Banks are a group of islands on the North Carolina coast that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the coastal sounds and inlets. Atlantic currents in this area made for excellent travel for ships, except in the area of Diamond Shoals, just offshore at Cape Hatteras. Nearby, the warm Gulf Stream ocean current collides with the colder Labrador Current, creating ideal conditions for powerful ocean storms and sea swells. The large number of ships that ran aground because of these shifting sandbars, including the Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor, gave this area the nickname “Graveyard of the Atlantic.” It also led Congress to authorize the construction of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse which is recognized by the National Park Service as the tallest lighthouse in America.
 > Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
DailyPhoto 11-28-2009 


Just an old fashioned sunny, blue sky day, aim-at-the top-and-shoot lighthouse shot by Patti. The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is just so beautiful there is just no way I know of to take a bad shot of it.

From Wikipedia:

The Outer Banks are a group of islands on the North Carolina coast that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the coastal sounds and inlets. Atlantic currents in this area made for excellent travel for ships, except in the area of Diamond Shoals, just offshore at Cape Hatteras. Nearby, the warm Gulf Stream ocean current collides with the colder Labrador Current, creating ideal conditions for powerful ocean storms and sea swells. The large number of ships that ran aground because of these shifting sandbars, including the Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor, gave this area the nickname “Graveyard of the Atlantic.” It also led Congress to authorize the construction of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse which is recognized by the National Park Service as the tallest lighthouse in America.
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
DailyPhoto 11-28-2009


Just an old fashioned sunny, blue sky day, aim-at-the top-and-shoot lighthouse shot by Patti. The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is just so beautiful there is just no way I know of to take a bad shot of it.

From Wikipedia:

The Outer Banks are a group of islands on the North Carolina coast that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the coastal sounds and inlets. Atlantic currents in this area made for excellent travel for ships, except in the area of Diamond Shoals, just offshore at Cape Hatteras. Nearby, the warm Gulf Stream ocean current collides with the colder Labrador Current, creating ideal conditions for powerful ocean storms and sea swells. The large number of ships that ran aground because of these shifting sandbars, including the Civil War ironclad warship USS Monitor, gave this area the nickname “Graveyard of the Atlantic.” It also led Congress to authorize the construction of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse which is recognized by the National Park Service as the tallest lighthouse in America.
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