Our town throws a festival every year with lots of food, crafts, vendors, music and even a demo from Bigfoot the monster truck. The poor helpless cars were no match.
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Views from Myrtle Beach, SC
One of our favorite places to vacation is a very specific neighborhood in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It’s a small community sandwiched between the State Park and a large campground. No high rise hotels within a mile and the only people on the beach in front of the house is people in the neighborhood. It’s very quiet and the beach is great. Walking a half mile to the north is the Myrtle Beach State Park pier. This provided me something to include with the sunrise shots. A tripod and variable ND let me slow the shutter down enough to flatten the water.
We also visited the aquarium down here and just had a wonderful week relaxing on the beach.
A quick trip and a new lens
Once a year or so, I get to tag along with my wife and travel to her work conferences. This time we were at the Greenbrier for a few days in West Virginia. It’s much more high class than I’m used too and the only thing I owned that fit in were my Billingham Hadley bags. The new lens is a Rokinon 12mm f/2 prime. I’ve been wanting an ultra wide angle for awhile, but couldn’t justify the price of the Fuji 10-24mm f/4. Every review I could on the Rokinon/Samyang 12mm was overwhelming positive and the price can’t be beat. In my first outing, it performed remarkably well.
During the day when I was on my own, I ventured out and took a hike around Sandstone Falls in the New River Gorge National Park. I managed to arrive before the sun cleared away the fog and low lying cloud cover, which added some darker atmosphere to the pictures.
Since I was working on a tripod for all of these shots, I decided to test out the new Panorama Merge feature in Lightroom 6. This panorama is from 5 shots that it stitched together.
Once back at the Greenbrier I still had some time to walk around and enjoy the old world charm of the buildings.
Back from Camping
We just returned from a long weekend at Laurel Hill State Park with a bunch of extended family. The camera made the trip of course and was brought out any chance I got. Thankfully, there was plenty to shoot.