Well I'm still up here in North Carolina and have been taking pictures whenever I can. Here are the ones I've been able to edit thus far, plus some I never got around to uploading from a trip to Key West.
As I take more, I will continue to place them in this thread. I had to downsize some photos especially much to make them fit on photobucket, but oh well, I still feel they're presentable. Stick with it, I promise the pictures get better near the end!
OK,
Day 1
It was raining right before we got there, so I couldn't resist the urge to take some pictures of the water drops:
Then we went to the nearby golf course to throw the ball for my dog. Here you see my dog and my mother:
Day 2
I woke up and decided to take a walk and take some pictures, nothing spectacular.
Some pretty lighting on a golf cart path:
A patch of ferns I thought was nice and quaint:
Shot of the golf course...not a great photo, but I like the composition:
Day 4
Ah, July 4th. We took a hike up a mountain...it was really shady and I didn't bring the tripod, so there weren't many great photo ops...but here are a couple documentary ones. In it is my brother and my dog:
However, I did get to take some nice glam shots of the dog at the top:
Day 6
I woke up early and went to a local stream that I have gone to since I was a kid.
Not a great photo, but I thought it was cool how you can see the water moving at different speeds further away:
Thought this one was pretty nice:
I liked how the water looked going around the log:
Thought this was pretty, the water flowing under the blooming rhododendrons:
I like this one, makes it look so tropical, and more jungly than it actually is:
Day 8
Wasn't much opportunity for photos, until my aunt's dog, a Bishon, thought he could roll with mine....literally. He had a blast, but he got dirty...and the aunt wasn't exactly thrilled.
Hate using the flash, but I needed to in this case...too much action, not enough light.
Look at those eyes!
Dog's cute, and I think the tap water looks pretty cool too.
This is my favorite.
Runner up:
And ah, the blow drying!
Day 9
Woke up at dawn to go to a waterfall nearby...some pretty nice pictures I thought.
My favorite:
Some others:
Day 11
That's today, the 11th. I woke up at dawn again and went to an inn nearby with it's own lake. It was absolutely gorgeous. I am not done editing these yet, so will post more later.
A watermill:
View of the lake. I have just fallen absolutely in love with this photo, I don't know why.
There you have it. I will post more later. And as promised, some from my trip to the Keys:
