S.hughes Photography | Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. ~ C.Perkins

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You get what you tolerate…

Posted by S.hughes | May 16, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: coast, intracoastal waterway, north carolina, outdoor living, pier, sky reflections, water, wine; wine glass; coastal | Leave A Comment »

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Time to wake up and smell the coffee…

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Posted by S.hughes | May 13, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: macro, nikon d700, purple & white flower, purple flower | Leave A Comment »

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. ~Thomas Fuller

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne

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Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it. ~Sai Baba

Posted by S.hughes | May 2, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: carolina beach, carolina beach marina, coastal scene, coastal sunset, marina, sunset coastal | Leave A Comment »

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a pair of lazy oysters at the end of April – Shuck’n Shack at Carolina beach…

Posted by S.hughes | April 28, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: carolina beach, lazy oysters, oysters, shuck'n shack, shuck'n shack carolina beach, shucking shack | Leave A Comment »

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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ~Saadi

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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. ~Bob Dylan

Posted by S.hughes | April 17, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: apple blossom; apple tree; spring flower, tree flower; fruit tree; fruit blossom | Leave A Comment »

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A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted by S.hughes | April 11, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: fern, fern frond, fiddlehead fern, macro, nikon d700, plant, unfurled fern | Leave A Comment »

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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. Federico Fellini

Posted by S.hughes | April 7, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: oyster, oyster shell, oysters | 1 Comment »

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Raleigh angles…

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With age – comes beauty…

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Organic and not…

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If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis Carroll

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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ~Aaron Rose

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Learn to let go – it truly is water under the bridge…. and life goes on.

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“You can’t always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you… you have to go to them sometimes.” ~Winnie the Pooh

Posted by S.hughes | February 25, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: dappled sunlight, forest, gold leaves, sunlight, trees, woods | Leave A Comment »

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Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident – It is as common as life. ~Henry David Thoreau

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It’s always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~Author Unknown

Posted by S.hughes | February 15, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: harness horse, harness racing, harness track, horse, pinehurst, pinehurst nc | Leave A Comment »

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I hear it calling me….

Posted by S.hughes | February 11, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: beach, mercer's pier, north carolina, ocean, pier, water reflections, waves, wrightsville beach | Leave A Comment »

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My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare

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Red in the icy morning, Durham, NC

Posted by S.hughes | January 26, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bird, cardinal, icy tree, red bird | Leave A Comment »

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Drop of water

Drop of water

Posted by S.hughes | January 13, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Drop of water, pine tree, pinetree | Leave A Comment »

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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill

Posted by S.hughes | December 30, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton

Posted by S.hughes | December 21, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bokeh, christmas lights, light, rainy lights | Leave A Comment »

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“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” ~George MacDonald

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“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.” ~Unknown

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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau

Posted by S.hughes | December 10, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: boat, intracoastal, ocean, sea, shrimp, shrimper, wilmington nc, wrightsville nc | Leave A Comment »

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“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” ~Australian Aboriginal Proverb

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Surfer’s Healing / 2012

Take a minute to vote for Surfer’s Healing. The experience for the families is priceless and something they look forward to all year.

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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. ~H. P. Lovecraft

Posted by S.hughes | November 27, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »

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Ode to the oyster…

Posted by S.hughes | November 25, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: oyster | Leave A Comment »

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Following the light….

Posted by S.hughes | November 25, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: beach, blue water, surfer, winter beach, wrightsville beach | Leave A Comment »

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What is the most valuable and tenuous link between the present and remote past? Some say the Ginkgo tree…

Posted by S.hughes | November 7, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: ginko, richmond | Leave A Comment »

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Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. Charles Eames

Posted by S.hughes | November 4, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: main street station, richmond, skyline | Leave A Comment »

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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ~Thomas Jefferson

Posted by S.hughes | November 4, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: richmond va, the jefferson hotel, thomas jefferson statue | 1 Comment »

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All Hallows Eve…with 50 Shades of grey, the scream and a Vampire…

Posted by S.hughes | October 31, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »

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It is better to travel well than to arrive. ~Buddha

Posted by S.hughes | October 28, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: fall colors, nc mountains, north carolina mountains, train, train tracks | Leave A Comment »

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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. ~Sai Baba

Posted by S.hughes | October 25, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: concrete leaf stains, leaf stain | Leave A Comment »

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“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer” ~ Walter De Mulder

Posted by S.hughes | October 22, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: antique mercedes, mercedes | Leave A Comment »

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Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. ~Robert Browning Hamilton

Posted by S.hughes | October 22, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: dried flower top, hydrangea | Leave A Comment »

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When in doubt – follow the light…

Posted by S.hughes | October 21, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: leaf, light, shadows | Leave A Comment »

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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky

Posted by S.hughes | October 18, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: sparklers | Leave A Comment »

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I give you Mr. and Mrs…..

Posted by S.hughes | October 18, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: wedding | 3 Comments »

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We had a wedding this weekend.

Posted by S.hughes | October 15, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: wedding | Leave A Comment »

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The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats

Posted by S.hughes | October 11, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: amethest quartz, locust shell, opossum skull, possum skull | Leave A Comment »

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If the doors of perception were cleansed; everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~William Blake

Posted by S.hughes | October 11, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: clouds, sky, sun rays | Leave A Comment »

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