{"id":4131,"date":"2018-02-10T17:48:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:28:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:28:31","slug":"winter-photo-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=4131","title":{"rendered":"Winter Photo Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weather has always been a catalyst for my photography, so Cape Hatteras was a good place to spend life pursuing such a passion.<\/p>\n

This winter’s events motivated me to shoot a few times, and get acquainted with a new mirrorless camera.<\/p>\n

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Our second snowfall in two weeks came on the 18th of January. It was drifty, amounting to perhaps 5 inches. The black needle rush in the marsh made a surreal scene as it poked through the whiteness.<\/p>\n

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Out on the beach the snow was whipped through the dunes.<\/p>\n

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Sand and snow mixed abstract patterns everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Vegetated areas behind the dunes caught most of the snow.<\/p>\n

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As air temperatures moderated over the cold water, a fog set in. I used a 45mm Leica lens on my Lumix camera to shoot the Bodie Island Lighthouse.<\/p>\n

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On the other side of Oregon Inlet, I stopped at the 1897-built Coast Guard Station. The environment there has been so unstable that it was decommissioned in 1988 due to encroaching seas. The Coast Guard then relocated to a new complex north of Oregon Inlet. The old building has since become a popular subject for artists and photographers.\u00a0The state of North Carolina restored the dilapidated exterior and has yet to decide its fate.<\/p>\n

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I recently made my last haul of oysters for the season. They’ve died off and have been over harvested, now scarcer than ever. It took me hours to fill a bucket. Hopefully they’ll rebound and come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weather has always been a catalyst for my photography, so Cape Hatteras was a good place to spend life pursuing such a passion. This winter’s events motivated me to shoot a few times, and get acquainted with a new mirrorless camera. Our second snowfall in two weeks came on the 18th of January. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outer-banks","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}