High-energy aerobatics pilot Skip Stewart in his 400 hp modified Pitts S-2S, which he's named "Prometheus."

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Sunset over Kitty Hawk Bay, on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

This is an example of an image made several minutes after the sun sinks below the horizon. Often, the range of luminosity becomes more manageable, the colors more subtle, and textures are delicately enhanced.  I had my camera with a 10-20mm lens, on a tripod, low to make that rippled mud predominate.  I waited and was rewarded.

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The relentless winds that made the Outer Banks attractive to the Wright Brothers for their experiments in flight, also provide ever-changing artwork in the sands.

Pattern in wind-blown sand on North Carolina's Outer Banks.	Among the fleeting sculptures on wind battered Jockey's Ridge are these ridges, resembling miniature mountain ranges.  The low angle of the sun near dusk accentuated the textures on this ever changing palette.

Winds have whipped out this bowl shaped hollow in Jockey's Ridge sand dune, showing the stratification of the different types of sand on the dune.  By the next day, this will be replaced by another formation as winds, rain, and footprints continuously transform the landscapes of the tallest dune on the US East Coast.

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A sand dune on Pea Island, on a brilliant, but bitterly cold and windy day.   Winds can create rivers of flowing sand, as seen crossing left to right in this image.

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Often, there's stories that can be found and told by making photos of abstracted elements of larger objects.

The detail of the flag in the left hand photo contains just enough so that we recognize the larger flag of the United States of America, but allows us to also see the texture of the fabric and its stitches, the undulating highlight and shadow tones of the banner as it ripples in the air, and the smaller highlights and shadows of the raindrops clinging to the cloth.  Because the entire flag isn't shown, it calls attention to there being much more to see.

In the image on the right, what the larger objects are becomes nearly irrelevant.  It's an riveting composition of simple graphic elements in saturated primary colors.  Red, white, and blue invokes emotions in Americans, especially when presented in that order.  Since our early childhood, we've recognized that as the colors of our national flag, a symbol of intense pride and patriotism.  I've further reinforced that by displaying the image along with an image of the American flag.  (This is a graphical composition I found in stacks of small sailboats, stored inverted on a dock in Manteo, NC.)

I usually go out with the intent of making grand photos of scenics or of larger objects, such as my aviation photography.  Often however, the images that stick with me are those that forced me to observe and record much more carefully and creatively.  I made the image of the flags while out photographing fall foliage.  The right image was made during a trip to photograph the sunrise over a harbor.

Consider looking beyond the obvious, turning your lens to the little intimacies you'd normally overlook.  There's endless possibilities when you do!

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