Archive for July, 2011

If there is such a thing as global warming, it showed its hand this week across the country. Looking at the weather channel, most of the US was suffering from warming overload. I hope you were able to find a place to “chill”.

Having grown up in Florida, I was always fascinated by the sea and the fishing vessels that traveled in and out of the harbors. Although I never got interested in fishing, I did find myself spending time on the docks photographing the vessels as they came back from their journey and their ritual of off-loading the days catch.

Spending time in the Outer Banks (OBX) has rekindled that love affair. Fishing villages and harbors dot the islands like Red Lobster does the inland cities! Each village harbor has it’s own unique personality accentuated by the variety and age of the fishing vessels along with the individuals who captain them. The docks are a daily pageant of boat departures and arrivals and the adulation afforded the display of the days harvest.

What I find most inviting are the harbors dedicated to the locals, those that offer solitude and sanctuary to the battered and tattered boats that venture out and embrace the daily calling of the sea. One of those sleepy OBX harbors sits quietly secluded on the Pamlico Sound in Avon, NC. Anchored by the Avon Seafood “facility”, the harbor is extremely quaint and home to a few vessels that have seen better days. I can only imagine what yarns they could tell of their fishing escapades.

With the sun setting in the west, the boats sit idle in the harbor with anticipation of their next sea worthy adventure.

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~dK~

It has been a stellar week here in the Outer Banks (OBX) with Mother Nature doing what she does best, blessing the islands with wonderful beach weather. For most of the summer OBX has had to deal with the smoke from fires north of us but this week, rain and southerly winds pushed the haze out and provided moderate temperatures, blue skies, beautiful huge clouds and magnificent sunsets.

While here in the Outer Banks, I have been blessed to make some great friends that continue to make me feel part of the community and support my artistic efforts. I have attempted to fit in as best I can, allowing my art to be front and center, the new kid on the block if you will.

One of the individuals I met early on was a very gifted musician, Sean Bendula. Sitting out on the deck one night drinking a beer, we heard this incredible voice coming from the open-mike-night below at Kaia’s Kitchen.
We met and since that night have discussed getting together and combining our “arts” to produce some publicity photos for Sean. Last week we carried through with the “threat” and as luck would have it picked one of the best island days of the year, to shoot. Beautiful blue skies, huge dramatic clouds and a wonderful sunset; all part of my “Outdoor Studio!” The collaboration and day proved to be amazing and on top of it all, I enjoyed my own private concert. If that wasn’t enough, that night OBX weas blessed with a Full Moon rising, playing peek-a-boo though the swift moving clouds.

One of the captured images …. “Music to my Eyes and Ears” … Sean walking on Water.

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dennis keim

I trust this email finds you doing well and that you are full of excitement as you drink your coffee thinking about the week ahead.

If you have paid any attention to the news this week it has been one with some amazing stories of weather and the dust storm in Phoenix and in sports with the US Women’s Soccer team come from behind victory in the World Cup. I would think there could have been nothing to top either but – watching the Shuttle Atlantis launch into space Friday morning, for the very last time in the history of the US space program, would have to top my list. It was a very emotional moment for me, those that live the space program and I am sure for the millions that watched. I was filled with pride and saddened with sorrow thinking that this will be the very last time in the history of the US Space Program that this majestic vehicle will soar into space. We are a country that looks skyward and a nation full of dreams and I trust that we will again do both soon. God Speed Atlantis!

With that, I give you the beauty and serenity of a white Heron hunting for its next appetizer silhouetted by the setting sun in the Pamlico Sound of the Outer Banks. This beautiful creature continues to soar over the islands.
Enjoy!

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~dK~

I trust that you had an exceptional 4^th of July holiday weekend spent with family and friends. I hope you also spent a moment in remembrance of those that have given the most so that so we can enjoy the freedoms that we celebrate on this day.

Sometimes I find that is the most simplistic of imagery that can have the most impact on myself, or more importantly, the viewer.  While traveling around OBX over the weekend I was struck with how patriotic the residents are and how proud they are to display that patriotism. On the island, as well as, all over the US, the American Flag was being displayed as a reminder to everyone why we join in honor and celebration on this day. Like most. I become a little emotional seeing our Flag while photographing the many ways it is displayed during this celebration.

When looking back over all the images, I was struck by the symbolic nature of one photograph I had taken where the American Flag stood proud, but alone, amongst the multitude of outriggers of a fleet of charter fishing vessels. In that moment I could not help but think about the words to our National Anthem

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.

Happy Independence Day!

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~dK~