flooowers, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in January: waking up in a world where Tim Tebow no longer plays college football; big ideas; doing scary things; Brian Fallon solo acoustic shows; punk rockers covering Kathleen Edwards and Patti Griffin; this photo; putting the camera down and just rocking; tapas and dim sum;…
Category: walk around the lake
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. you give me miles and miles of mountains and i’ll ask for the sea — Damien Rice, “Volcano”
holden beach, north carolina
holden beach, north carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. This is my favorite place in the world.
charleston cemeteries, south carolina
charleston cemeteries, south carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. I spent most of the weekend behind Six, who is newly back from Nikon with a working CPU and a freshly cleaned sensor, and it was brutally hard to go to work this morning.
isle of palms, south carolina
isle of palms, south carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. “To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it.” — Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
isle of palms, south carolina
isle of palms, south carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. like i miss the ocean when i go to sleep man, it’s gonna break my heart
shadows, isle of palms, south carolina
shadows, isle of palms, south carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. Last Trip to the Island (Erin Belieu) You’re mad that I can’t love the ocean, but I’ve come to this world landlocked and some bodies feel permanently strange. Like any foreign language, study it too late and it never sticks. Anyway, we’re here aren’t we?–…
wrightsville beach
wrightsville beach, originally uploaded by minervacat. This is for Heather. It’s a lesson in the power of a point and shoot; I took this shot lying upside down on a blanket at the beach, just leaned back, looked at what was behind me, framed it, and clicked. No metering, no thinking, just go. I probably…
west point on the eno
west point on the eno, originally uploaded by minervacat. Second test run with the 100mm today, farting around with Ash and shep. at West Point Park on the Eno River in Durham, and I’m still loving it. It’s incredibly crisp, the depth of field I can get is unbelievable, and it just grabs color so…
old carrboro cemetary
old carrboro cemetary, originally uploaded by minervacat. whoever named the fall sure did a bang-up job — Rhett Miller, “Haphazardly”
brand new kind of photography 