Category: Beach

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Flags for Heroes Fill a Field and a Need

The need is, of course, to help spread the patriotism that is Memorial Day in the United States. We should all remember those who fought and sacrificed to provide and maintain the freedoms we all enjoy. These 450+ American Flags surely impressed many thousands of drivers as they passed by. I know they impressed me. The sight was both awesome and humbling.

Flags For Heroes in Easton MD

The Easton Rotary Club sponsored their “Flags for Heroes” at the Talbot County Community Center, just north of Easton, MD on the south side of Rt. 50. I just had to pull off the highway to capture a few shots of this incredible display.

I also want to share this wonderful project and have made this image available as an art print at Bill Swartwout Photography.

 

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Merry Christmas to Family, Friends and Clients

I usually don’t shoot “holiday decoration” scenes but this year I found an exception. I’ll use it to illustrate this post where I want to wish everyone a…

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Rehoboth Beach Lighthouse Holiday Decorations

Downtown Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, is beautifully decorated. We drove around the Rehoboth Circle on Friday night, December 20th, and I had to go back the next evening to photograph this scene of the lighthouse which was tastefully decorated and served as a “Welcome to Rehoboth Beach for the Holidays” greeting to visitors entering downtown from Route 1 and “The Outlets.”

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Shark Attack in Ocean City Caught on Camera

This shark attack in Ocean City, Maryland, was obviously more man-made than provoked. The corner of the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not building has a huge Great White Shark that appears to have attacked the corner of the structure. It evidently left the waters of the Atlantic Ocean during an extremely high tide and jumped high enough to crash through and become stuck in the walls of the building – with its head lunging high above people on the Ocean City Boardwalk and its tail waving toward the beach.

Ocean City Shark Attack
Shark over the Boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland

Ripley’s large mechanical shark slowly lunges back and forth where everyone can see it. However, I doubt many beach-goers feel threatened by this shark attack because he (she?) has be struggling to free itself of the building for many years, day and night, all year ’round.

Golden Shark in Ocean City
Golden Shark in Ocean City, MD

I imagine that thousands of beach-goers get pictures of this mechanical shark attack every week during the summer season. However, few of those photos are as dramatic as these. I thought I would put mine in the mix and offer them for sale in my online photography gallery at www.BillSwartwoutPhotography.com.

Photo taken with Nikon D3200 and AF-S Nikkor 55-200mm zoom lens.