Posts Tagged ‘Crystal Coast Photographer’
M & M Atlantic Beach Sneak Peek
M & M Atlantic Beach Sneak Peek I love taking photographs. I love Crystal Coast sunsets. I love meeting new people. And I especially love it when all of these things come together at once. Sunday evening on Atlantic Beach was a perfect storm in the best sense of the term! Tami arranged to have…
Read MoreOne hundred degrees in the shade
Some days are different Some days are just plain different. One hundred degrees in the shade surely ranks as one of those days. We all experience a handful of days over the course of our lives that are totally unlike all of the rest. Watershed days. Days that make us and days that threaten to…
Read MoreDodging storms and chasing light
Jenn is the quintessential surfer girl. Born and raised Down East, she’s spent her whole life on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast. She knows the area like the back of her hand. Excited to get to photograph her in her element, we spent the early evening dodging storms and chasing light in Atlantic Beach. Our lifestyle…
Read MoreCrystal Coast celebration
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…
Read MorePhoto shoot location scouting
This past weekend I happened to post a couple of photos on my personal Instagram account (@mikegothard) which mentioned I was logging some time photo shoot location scouting in preparation for several photo shoots over the next couple of weeks. A friend in the film industry messaged me asking if “location scouting” for a photo…
Read MoreLeave something to the imagination
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…
Read MoreTo infinity and beyond
“To infinity…and beyond!” Okay, I confess…this post has absolutely nothing to do with Buzz Lightyear of Toy Story fame. But it does have to do with light years and light. Astronomers tell us that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one of billions of galaxies in an astoundingly vast universe, each of which contains…
Read MoreThere is a 100 percent chance
There is a 100 percent chance you’re reading this blog post right this second. And there is a 100% chance someone else is not. I’m a sucker for a good statistic. But statistics can be tricky things. It’s been said that a statistician is someone who stands in a bucket of ice water while he…
Read MoreBeaufort Photography Co
They’re here! Our new Beaufort Photography Co. business cards have finally arrived! While word-of-mouth will always be the most effective advertising in which a company can engage, having some quality print material exchanging hands around the world is a close second. Phase one of introducing ourselves to you as we make the Crystal Coast our…
Read MoreDon’t take my Kodachrome away
“I got a Nikon camera I love to take photographs So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away.” So sang Paul Simon the summer of 1973. Truth be told, I prefer shooting in black-and-white but that’s a story for another day. Though invented decades earlier, color photographs didn’t become main stream until the 1960s. A few…
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