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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Random Sights, Charleston Area, South Carolina, USA


This discrete brass placard is, without a doubt, among the classiest and most polite choice of words I've ever seen. In the north, our sign would say in six-inch high red letters: "KEEP OUT - NO TRESPASSING."  But southern gentility takes a much better approach to accomplish the same thing: "Beyond this point, by invitation only."

Gulls and sunset are often a successful photographic combination. The ghosting and multiple imaging is a result of the HDR function built into my camera - in high contrast situations, the software captures three images in rapid succession and sandwiches them together to create a better final photo. It can produce some interesting results if there is a lot of movement in the picture - like flapping gulls.

Sunlight through palmettos.

A storage barn beside a backwater dock.

A slice of life - in youth, a surfer; in mid-life, a man with a dog; and in old age, a couple - it seems a universal feeling to enjoy the beach, especially near the time of sunset when the golden glow brightens smiles and makes people friendlier.

Mysterious looking image in the tree boneyard on Folly Beach.

More gulls at sunset.


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