{"id":5338,"date":"2021-09-22T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:25:09","slug":"larry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5338","title":{"rendered":"Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 3 kinds of hurricanes, good, bad and somewhere in between. The good ones stay far offshore as did Hurricane Larry most recently. As a beachcomber, I have always loved watching the power and beauty of waves. That fascination has been a constant subject for my photography since beginning life on Hatteras nearly 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5339\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lines.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lines-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traveling from several hundred miles away, Larry&#8217;s waves arrived as a south swell, with a hefty current sweeping northward. Most of the surfers left the island for points north where conditions were smaller and more approachable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5340\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/clouds.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/clouds-400x269.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t <em>worked<\/em> a beachscape in a few years, and felt I was in the company of an old friend. It was just me, my camera and Larry&#8217;s pulse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/offshore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5341\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/offshore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/offshore.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/offshore-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outside bars were breaking nicely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5342\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrel.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrel-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inside bars were hard and hollow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backwash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5343\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backwash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backwash.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backwash-400x271.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was entertained by an occasional wave rolling back into an oncoming one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5344\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cloud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cloud.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cloud-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Larry put on a show and was good to stay well off the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 3 kinds of hurricanes, good, bad and somewhere in between. The good ones stay far offshore as did Hurricane Larry most recently. As a beachcomber, I have always loved watching the power and beauty of waves. That fascination has been a constant subject for my photography since beginning life on Hatteras nearly 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,6,30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-outer-banks","category-sea","category-storms","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","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=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}