The seashore, salty air, sand dunes, and shining sun – all reasons for a Crystal Coast celebration in Atlantic Beach last week. Oh yeah, and life…beautiful, wonderful, amazing life! Three years ago to the day, Allie received a bilateral lung transplant ensuring she would experience a lot more days like this one. If you’re like…

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The best photographs always leave something to the imagination; they leave us wondering and thinking and wishing and “What iffing.” It’s the same with a good book or an engaging film or a compelling poem. Anything that shows everything and leaves nothing to the imagination tends toward the boring and predictable. As human beings we…

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A lot of us spent our childhoods reading comic books and playing superheroes – Superman, the Avengers, Captain America, Spiderman, Batgirl, Thor, the Fantastic Four. Maybe you still occasionally don a cape and mask but probably best to keep that your little secret. A peanut butter sandwich, some Tang, and a stack of comic books…

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Three sisters and a brother sounds like the title of a Hollywood movie, but in this case it was the title of a Northeastern North Carolina lifestyle portrait session a few years back. Amber, Ashley, Autumn, and Michael were all in town for one of Northeastern North Carolina’s mild Christmases. We met on a picture…

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Happy Thanksgiving from Beaufort Photography Co. There is perhaps no truer barometer of our emotional, mental, and spiritual health than a grateful attitude. I love what G.K. Chesterton wrote, “Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands, and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed…

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It all begins with a blank sheet of paper. Whether words on a page, photographs in an album, or bedtime stories from a book, they all begin with the figurative blank sheet of paper. I’ve read of writers who miraculously put pen to paper and have words flow like rain water gushing from a gutter…

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