OBX PIX
During my trip to North Carolina's Outer Banks (abbreviated OBX for
some reason) I've demoted my camera from "Sir Snapidactus III, Visual
Chronicler of Marc Pickett I of Padelford" to "Snappy, the
Paperweight".
He made 2 flights. The 2nd had a salty end. I was walking along the
beach with the kite in hand for well over half an hour. So I got
brave and flew the camera well over the water. This was fine for a
while, and I wasn't really paying attention when I noticed some slack
on the line, at which point it was too late for me to run inland and
rescue Snappy from plunging into the ocean.
However, I was able to string in kite and camera in and get the
pictures off the memory card, and I'm really happy with some of them.
A picture of the neighbors from Snappy's 1st flight.
And my older brother, Matt's valiant rescue from the neighbor's pool.
(The 1st flight ended when the kite got caught on the neighbor's
house. The kite went into the pool, but the camera didn't.)
I like the
converging waves over the sandbar in this picture. I did this
relatively early in the morning so you'd have longer shadows. I'm the
speck on the middle right of this one. Snappy's demiser lies below.
This is my favorite. The only thing to give a sense of scale is the
track of footprints. I don't know what the circular thing is in the
middle, and I didn't notice it until I looked at these pictures. You
can also see the "high water marks" from the waves on the bottom-left.
Shadows on the wall.
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