Pre-Dawn Arrivals: Lake Logan Triathlon

During the first weekend of August 2014, over 900 athletes arrived before the sun came up at the Lake Logan Episcopal Center in Western North Carolina to be cheered by family and friends.  This event has grown substantially, particularly this year with the addition of the Lake Logan Half.  In this event, contestants swim 1.2 miles (1.9m),  bike 52 miles (90 km), run 13.1 miles (21.1 km). The event is owned and managed by  Glory Hound Events with production and…

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Twelve faces of pain from the 2014 Winston-Salem Cycling Classic

[portfolio_slideshow width=560] The purpose of this small documentary project was to capture the facial expressions of a sample group of riders as reflected in their level of physical exertion.  We chose twelve, but one we photographed has a countenance that is complacent and poised -- see if you can find her. Athletes drew from the depths of their physical prowess (and cycling skills) to place and win, or even to finish. Congratulations to all the competitive athletes who traveled from all…

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Cinemagraph … Winston-Salem Light Project “Artery”

A favorite project of ours in Winston-Salem is soon to end - 2014's Winston-Salem Light Project - named "The Artery." The scene (literally in front of our home on Factory Row) is the Winston-Salem Strollway where industrious and innovative faculty (Norman Coates and others) and students from the UNC School of the Arts have converted the existing city light fixtures into a half-mile of visual dessert  from dusk to dawn. "Artery" was constructed of 48…

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“Chimney Swifts” wins Cape Fear New Music Festival Competition

Our image "Chimney Swifts" won the Cape Fear New Music Festival competition at Methodist University where the photographer was challenged to produce select great images which matched musical movements composed by the festival's guest artists.  This year’s festival, now in it's second year, was to focus on the interaction between the visual arts and music.   Burk Uzzle, a Life Magazine and Magnum photographer and native of North Carolina judged the entries.  Two other of our…

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“Swamp Man” Bruce Beerbower …

  Bruce Beerbower on the Stephen Foster State Park boardwalk in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Digging fox holes and playing with "army men" is a commonality among guy-kids who live the rest of their lives connected to nature.  Such is the case with Hickory, NC's Bruce Beerbower who grew up in the mountains of northern West Virginia. "We cooked everything we caught, and if there was not a place to go camping, my backyard…

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Overloaded circuits at Ocracoke

  A recent trip by the High Country Chapter of the Audubon Society led by Jesse Pose and  Bob Cherry turned in an impressive list of sightings at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Area and around the then closed Bonner Bridge.  Despite the road closure over Oregon Inlet at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the lights didn't black out from a short circuit. A murmation of starlings almost occluded the sky in center-city Ocracoke.  Perhaps if they…

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Birding Bonner Bridge @ OBX

The almost annual trip to the Outer Banks by the High Country Audubon Society concluded this past week with the primary objective of sighting the aberrant Snowy Owl out of his range at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.   National Park Service personnel reported seeing the owl near ramp 45 through December 6.  Another sighting was confirmed almost three miles south of the previous location, the change most likely thought due to the dramatic change of…

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Cotton friends … Messrs. Bates Houck, John Deere, and Kitty Lucky

Three fine friends, uniquely dependent upon on each other ... Bates Houck, patriarch for Houck Farms; the John Deere 7660 cotton harvester; and the assuredly "fixed" farm kitty "Lucky" who was not seen in the photograph until after the fact.  His sneek-in presence is so true to his behavior and personality.  This image is part of a portfolio for the in-progress documentary, "Cotton Tale" which will be released in May of 2014.

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