JayKnight Life: Running, Reviews, Photos

When going out on a nature photo walk, you should expect to see some nature right? Well, my most recent walk lived up to my expectations - snakes, birds, and giant turtles. I'll get to that in a minute, .. but first let me set the scene. i love finding new places to take pictures. This time I went to the "Falls of Neuse" trail. In a previous life, i'd stay away ... far away from any place where "neuses" and "falling" are said in the same breath.. let alone the same sentence. In this case the river happens to be names the Neuse River, There is also Falls of New Lake, Falls of Neuse Road... so I've grown used to these terms being used in conjunction.

Wikipedia: In photography , bokeh   is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." [ 8 ]

    For the most part, we all survived hurricane Irene. That storm did beat up some of our cars, homes and forced hundreds of thousands of people into the dark. But we Survived. Even with all the damage and suffering caused by the storm only about 46 or so people were killed. Being in TV news, I know that there are countless stories of families struggling without power and trapped in their neighborhoods by downed power lines and trees. Thank God I fared pretty well after this storm.      My power was only out for 12 hours. Unfortunately some of my co-workers were in the dark 10 times as long or more. Six days to a week for some. It almost makes you wonder why so many power lines, cable lines and phone lines are above ground. I didn't do too much of any walking into any wooded areas... but I bet most of the trees that fell were along some kind of road, driveway, yard or field. The trees in the middle of the woods probably don't fall as much because they're protec...

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