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Several years ago, my wife and I drove from our home in Maryland to Savannah, Georgia spending two weeks photographing historic city centers, allees of live oak, shorelines of ghost trees and a number of lighthouses. It was the last subject that brought us to Corolla, North Carolina. Corolla is located near the north end of the Outer Banks. People often come here to see the wild horses that live in the Currituck Banks Reserve. Just before one reaches the reserve is the Currituck Beach Lighthouse. It’s a beautiful unpainted brick lighthouse with a working light and open to visitors. I thoroughly enjoyed photographing its spiral staircase. With my main goal accomplished, I thought we would just relax on our last night before driving home.
We stayed at a nice inn facing Currituck Sound and the mainland. On a stroll of the grounds, we saw that it had a pier with a small pavilion at the end, which I thought would make a nice sunset shot. The photography gods granted my request, and I thought that would be the best I could do here. I had a vague idea I would shoot the sunrise from the Atlantic side of the island, but in the morning the eastern horizon was mostly grey, so I returned to the pier. The western sky was turning wonderful shades of rose pink and light blue, full of rippling clouds. I tried a number of compositions, vertical and horizontal, with varying ratios of land to water. This one I think was the best. I’m thankful that the pier was a weathered neutral gray and didn’t compete with the sky colors. All in all a fantastic capstone to our trip along the southeastern coast of the US.
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