Posts Tagged ‘Crystal Coast’
Destination Crystal Coast
How do you know you’re on the Crystal Coast? It is 70 degrees on December 10. Welcome to destination Crystal Coast – also known as paradise. Buzzfeed recently included the Crystal Coast on its 13 North Carolina Wedding Venues You’ll Want to Book Immediately. Listed at number one is Neuse Breeze, Havelock, NC. “If you’re…
Read MoreView from the Sea
There is nothing quite like a view from the sea. It’s about this time each year that we start to get a little overwhelmed. You know the feeling. Short days give way to shorter nights. You survived Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and all of those relatives who “dropped in,” but now you’re staring straight into Christmas…
Read MoreHow to Capture FUN Engagement Photos
How to capture fun engagement photos is one of the questions I’m most frequently asked by clients. Using complex algorithms, technologist William Tunstall-Pedoe recently determined that Sunday, April 30, 1954 was the most boring, uneventful, and obscure day in history. No bride-to-be wants her engagement photos to compete with April 30, 1954 on the boredom…
Read MoreA Crystal Coast Autumn
A Crystal Coast autumn comes alive. Rainbow colors blanket the trees. Lawns resemble patchwork quilts. It’s as if the trees are wired with electricity and someone suddenly flips the switch. Leaves. Few words conjure as vibrant an image of childhood autumn days as this one. Growing up in southeast Tennessee meant our summers were green…
Read MoreBeaufort Photography Co. Photographs Twuuu Wuuuv
What comes to your mind when you hear the word “love?” Do you think of a person? Maybe a spouse, a parent, a child, a friend. Maybe you think of a pet or a possession. “I love my dog, Rover.” “I love my Corvette.” “I love ice cream.” Do you get all sentimental? Do you…
Read MoreABC’s of Hiring a Wedding Photographer
Writing about the ABC’s of hiring a wedding photographer is not unlike theoretical physicist Dr. Sheldon Cooper trying to explain string theory using just three words. It’s just not that simple. There are as many factors to consider when hiring someone to photograph your wedding as there are letters in the alphabet, and then some.…
Read MoreIt All Begins with a Blank Sheet of Paper
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…
Read MoreBeaufort Photography Co. Begins
Louis L’Amour wrote, “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” I assumed my move to the sleepy little beach town of Beaufort on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast would be temporary, a year or two at most. That was almost three years ago. And now the Crystal…
Read MoreI need a ’52 Ford Ranch Wagon…
Living just a block from the sea, I definitely need a beach wagon like this ’52 Ford Ranch Wagon I saw in Morehead recently. Picture it with a rack, a couple of boards on top, and a Beaufort Photography Co. graphic on the door 🙂
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