WYSIWYG

• Tagged North Carolina, Places

I’ve always loved pictures of rivers and waterfalls where the shutter speed is so slow as to make the water blur together like a smooth piece of silk. When we went to Linville Falls in western North Carolina a week ago, I knew I wanted to try that, so I carried a small but weighty tripod in my while hiking all around the falls. Ironically, I didn’t even end up using the tripod. Instead, I found a nice perch on the rocks and just used one of them to steady my camera.

• Tagged North Carolina, Places

The Mile High Swinging Bridge on top of the Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina on a foggy morning.

• Tagged Art, North Carolina

Lens inverting an upside-down mosaic of the Mona Lisa made out of sewing thread spindles. North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Photo Data Focal Length: 31mmShutter Speed: 1/80Aperture: ƒ/8

• Tagged Durham, North Carolina, Places

We were down by Scrap Exchange in downtown Durham over the weekend, and this sign painted on the side of the building caught my eye. Photo Data Focal Length: 22mmShutter Speed: 1/160Aperture: ƒ/13

• Tagged North Carolina, Objects, Places

We visited Duke Homestead today. It was the home of Washington Duke, who built the Dukes’ tobacco empire. There is a museum on the premises that focuses on the history of the tobacco industry. It included exhibits that used mannequins to recreate scenes from the cigarette-making process. This one below captured my attention in particular. [...]