summer stock sunday #30

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Thematic Photographic 88: "What I Did On My Vacation" v.6.0 - It's Another Surf City Sunset

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"The Sun Sets on 2009"
Surf City, NC - December, 2009 (Click to embiggen)

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Photographers always speak of "chasing the light", and there have been times when I've meant that quite literally. Then there are the times when the light comes to you. As it did on the last day of 2009 along the Intracoastal Waterway in Surf City. In this case, I couldn't shoot nearly fast enough. Or at enough. It was, in a word, amazing.

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Thematic Photographic 88: "What I Did On My Vacation" v.2.0 - Swing Time

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"Solitude and Serenity"
Surf City, NC - December, 2009 (Click to embiggen)

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It's no secret that Topsail Island is my new favorite place along the North Carolina coast. Here you can actually draw a breath without having to squeeze between the bodies to do it. And in late December, you can amplify that serenity by an order of magnitude. This was the final sunset of 2009, and it was pretty spectacular in my estimation. And I got lucky enough to tuen and look just as it painted the old swing bridge in Surf City a ruddy gold. Here is magic. A good place to be.

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Single Lens Reflex #18: "Surf City Sundown"

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"Island New Year's Eve"
Surf City, NC - December 2009 (Click to embiggen)

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Image is Everything #20: Crab Motel

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"Custom Built"
Surf City, NC - December 2009 (Click to embiggen)

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Thematic Photographic 87: "On The Road" v.1.0 - Surf City New Year's Eve

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"Church of the Fisherman"
Surf City, NC - December 31, 2009 (Click to embiggen)

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This week Thematic Photographic goes "On The Road", meaning anything shot while traveling. And since my two most recent trips have both been to the same place, it's only natural that I'd lead off with something from Topsail Island. Right in the middle of this oversized sandbar sits Surf City (no I'm not kidding) and it's maze of boardwalks that stretch out into the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. I caught a pretty spectacular sunset there New Year's Eve, and who knows that I won't show off some of the shots of that later this week. But to start, this is what New Year's Eve looked like in Surf City. Maybe everybody (else) was down in Carolina Beach waiting for the drop of the Giant Beach Ball (no, I'm not kidding). But I was taken with this engineering marvel last summer when I was down here. And in the after dark hours, it takes on a whole other dimension. Despite the lights along the walkways, it's nearly imposisble to see the water -- or the rather large (sounding) water fowl I disturbed with my presence. Normally this colleciton of planks and pilings would be inhabited by scores of fishing-rod-toting tourists and locals trying their luck in the Intracoastal's turbid water. But tonight it was so deserted that the loudest thing I heard (other than the aforementioned water fowl) was the sound of my boots on the wood. On a night normally reserved for revelry, it offered a moment of reflection, even reverence. And more than one quality photographic scoring chance.

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Shutterday #62: Theme 154 - "Special Places"

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"Topsail Island"
Surf City, NC - December 2009 (Click to embiggen)
Next week's theme: "Friends"

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