Trout Dreams - Linville Ridge, NC

I'm sitting here by the fire this evening editing pics, posting to this blog and waiting to head to Linville, NC in the morning. Some really great friends of ours have a place called Trout Dreams for the weekend. Their daughter and Kanah are the best of buds and are quite entertaining when they are together. We stayed there with them back in September of this year. This place is unbelievable, it sits on about 400 acres on the side of a mountain. There are miles and miles of logging trails and 3 ATV's to explore every bit of them. There is a ridge just up from the house that overlooks the valley and over a mountain range on one side. On the other you can see the swinging bridge at Grandfather Mountain. I could go on and on about the house and how cool it is. There is a picture of former President Jimmy Carter in the living room from a visit he made to the house. It seemed appropriate to post some pics of the last trip there on the eve of the next....


If you want to see the rest of the pics from the September trip, click on this link: http://www.mikeboykinphotography.com/Other/Linville-Trip-Sept-2010/13775850_RsHZk#1008495394_F6gsE

Lake Raleigh Sunsets

Lake Raleigh is located on N.C. State's Centennial Campus in Raleigh. It's one of the best places that I have found in Raleigh for sunsets. I am a sunset junkie, they are another one of the reasons I started talking photography as serious as I do. I would always take my point and shot camera with me on fishing trips just in case there was a catch that needed documenting. I found myself starting to watch the western sky to see how the sunset was going to play out more and more. I guarantee this will not be the the only Lake Raleigh sunset post on this blog....

Bogue Inlet Pier - Emerald Isle, NC

Speaking of Bogue Inlet Pier, as I did in my last post. It is one of my favorite subjects to photograph in the landscape around Emerald Isle. These are 3 of my favorite shots I have taken of it over the past couple of years.

Matt Baker - Kite Boarding

I was out on the beach by Bogue Inlet Pier on a pretty windy day late last year. Matt Baker was out Kite Boarding and came close enough to the beach that I was able to get some good shots of him doing his thing. This is a really cool sport to watch, the amount of air he gets when he pulls up off a wave his incredible. A ton of fun to watch, I can only imagine how much fun it is to do. Here's a link to see the rest of the shots: http://www.mikeboykinphotography.com/Sports/Kiteboarding/Matt-Baker-Kite-Boarding/10484798_Vf6my#727480738_f2mPm

Great Blue Heron

Here's a shot I took of  a Great Blue Heron along the canal in Emerald Isle, NC. These birds spook pretty easily and I spooked this one several times trying to get a decent shot of him....

Off The Lip

This is a page from the Sept. 2010 issue of Crystal Coast Outdoors Magazine. It was a corresponding page to an article written by Rudi from EI Surf Shop in Emerald Isle, NC.  Rudi does a regular article each month called "Off The Lip." He covers different topics related to surfing and this one was about Surf Photography. It was titled "Surf Window of Another Kind." I was included along with five other surf photographers from around the Emerald Isle area. The other photographers were Brad Styron, Graham Hunt, Jarred Bell, John Sudbrink and Jay Getsinger. This was my first time being in Crystal Coast Outdoors Magazine and I was thrilled to be included with these guys. They are all great photographers and have alot of great photos to look through on their sites. I linked their names to their sites, if you're like me and enjoy looking through photographs you should check them all out.....

I-440 @ the Melbourne Road Overpass

On the way home from shooting some of the snow scenery Sunday evening I stopped to take some extended exposure shots of traffic going along The Beltline. I love taking long exposure shots of traffic, trying to time the shot with oncoming and passing traffic to get the best effect with the head lights and tail lights is alot of fun. All three of these shots were 30 second exposures at F22 (the second was F5.6) with ISO 100.....