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Hurricane Irene Virginia Beach, Virginia

William Coyle — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:56:52 +0000

We were lucky in the Hampton Roads area, hurricane Irene could have been far worse then it was. After my chase with the storm hurricane Isabel was much more destructive to our area and a large swath of the East Coast. Most of the time I like to be at land fall during a hurricane but since the eyewalls path was ploted over the area I live in, I made the choice to stay local and look over my family and property. I have posted a video that shows what I saw in my travels in Virginia Beach and Sandbridge area that took a big hit from a waterspout that came ashore and damged about five to six houses which is shown at the end of the video. It also has an interview with the man that lost his house from the damaging tornado/waterspout. I can tell you I will be cleaning sand out of my ears for a week or longer and if you stayed inside,, here is some footage of what you missed.

Stephanie And Alex

William Coyle — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:46:13 +0000

This couple amazes me as well as friends, family and fans with a pure spirt for life and the story Alex tells with his incredible music about the battle they both won against cancer together. Although Stephanie was cured they both want to continue to help. They continue the fight for friends and many others the battle the disease currently. Here is a video telling the story of the fight and what they plan on doing with the new album ( Written On Skin ) and how they plan to help with the fight against cancer and how you can help as well. I have put a couple of photos up and also included a sample of his music which I am sure will be put on Itouch very soon. Guys I look forward to all the good things that go along with a new release of an album…

A Quick Post About What’s Going On

William Coyle — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:28:16 +0000

I spent the holidays in Ohio to see my father and mother who have been in and out of the hospital and it’s not often that I make it up here. I sometimes forget the sort of countryside Ohio has to offer which is just plain flat. My sister who lives in the middle of no mans land is where I stayed and I have been here before but forgot how bright the stars are and how the none existing city lights surrounds her farm. This down time is something I needed and took advantage of to mess around with the camera and try new things. I love the sky and love landscapes so with cold nights and with a high cirrus deck of clouds which I might add cut out star light from time to time I took some photos of the sky where I was located. The image below was taken with the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye lens and Nikon D300. I took a total of 203 photos each lasting 30 seconds at f-stop 3.5 and with an ISO of 620. Then took the 203 images and stacked them to come up with the image below. I think you can find the North star without any trouble. I will also be posting a couple of time lapse videos of these images which turned out really incredible. The next three weeks will be very busy for me and should have plenty of new images for everyone to check out. I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and spent it with love one’s and family.

Some New Toy’s In The Camera Bag

William Coyle — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:01:28 +0000

I think most photographers will tell you there is always something they want or something they need for there business and I also think that with camera equipment being upgraded as often as computers the continuing of new stuff probably will never stop. I have had a few things that I have wanted to add to the camera bag and I did put a new lens in the camera bag this weekend. I have always liked what wedding photographers can do with a fisheye lens and believe me when I say this lens can add new zest to wedding and engagement photos for your clients. I also wanted/needed this lens for some new stuff I have been planning on doing around the Virginia Beach Town Center and I will have more about that in later post. The Nikon 10.5mm is the lens I am referring to. This lens was not my first choice for purchase because I have been waiting for the release of the new Sigma 50mm 1.4 HSM but this lens is not in stock for the Nikon yet. I have never strayed away from Nikon glass but I have done my homework on the lens and have heard from people that have got ahold of the lens for testing and it look real nice. This lens will be great for portraits and with the 1.4 crop factor this lens will be like an 85mm on a full frame camera. I will post photos from the Nikon 10.5mm lens when I get a chance to break it in.

Ok had time to post a few shots of the Virginia Beach Town Center…

A photo of The Westin at the town center of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The shot was taken with a Nikon fisheye lens.

Busy August Ahead, Summer Storms Continue.

William Coyle — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:27:23 +0000

Just a short post this time as I am busy working on unfinished products because of being sick last week. I have a busy August ahead and this is great news to me. With every engagement or wedding I do I become more bold in trying different things on location as well as in the digital dark room and this is a good thing. Also I wanted to pass a few photos on from this weeks storms. The first was from last night with lightning coming out the side of the tower in clear blue skies with one of the planets to the top left and the others were from a week ago south of Pungo.

Summer Time Lightning Virginia Beach

William Coyle — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:33:12 +0000

Sometimes waiting around after you think storms have moved on or dyed pays off every so often as they did tonight. Tonight’s storms were scattered and went up fast and collapsed just as quick. This shot took place from a fresh and newly developed storm right over Virginia Beach. The storm was so fresh that it had not even reached a mature stage for lightning but had very heavy rain. The very first bolt to leap out of the top of the storm was from the photo below which was a pretty powerful lightning strike. The storm moved to the East and most of the lightning from the rest of the storm was in the heavy rain core and not visible. Also another note with concern to lightning and cameras is I have noticed a difference in photo quality between the Nikon D200 and the Nikon D300. I still have not locked on if it is just atmospheric conditions or if lightning has different effect on a camera with a CCD or a Cmos sensor. I will tell you that it seems like the Nikon D300 is a lot more sensitive to lightning strike like the one below then the D200 was. I will have to take some more shots before I can give a final answer to the question.

Take A Look Up Sometimes

William Coyle — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:18:17 +0000

I make a habit to look up at the sky whenever I get time and sometimes I see amazing things that most people will miss just because they don’t take the time to look up and admire the beauty that nature has to offer above our heads. Besides weddings and portraits I love what the skies have to offer which could be lightning, sunsets,shooting star or even a rare event of aurora. Somethings are burned in your mind forever like the very first time I saw the Northern Lights in Virginia. I remember the date of November 8, 2004 like it was yesterday as I was watching the data from a solar flare that left the sun two days before the big event. All the info and reports concluded that the lights were visible even further south then Virginia. I drove out to Back Bay past the North Carolina border to a spot that I have used for taking pictures of the stars or for meteor shower events which takes about thirty minute to get to from my location. During the drive I would look to the North and be somewhat disappointed to not see any glimpse of color in the sky. I pulled up to the location, turned the headlights off in the car and stepped out to a jaw dropping display of one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life. This was the first time I have witness the Northern Lights and everything I have read about them took place right in front of my eyes. The colors of orange, yellow, green, and even some blues and purple moved across the black velvet starry sky. I stood there looking and lost my train of thought forgetting that I need to set up the camera to record this event. I took photos for about an hour before the lights started to draw back to the North. I came home to edit the photos sending one to the Virginia Pilot newspaper which was used in a large article on the front page. The response from the photo was overwhelming and I received so many orders for the photo. I remember one that I sold where a couple had a grandfather who died two minutes before the photo was taken. The eleven year solar cycle is on the upward spiral so I look forward to new sun spots and maybe another chance at this type of photography.

The Westin And Virginia Beach Town Center With Lightning

William Coyle — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:45:01 +0000

Another round of storms more toward the South kept us out of the heavy rain but not the lightning. This shot was taken last night around 9:30 p.m. in front of the Virginia Beach Town Center.. Sometimes as storms weaken they will produce great anvil crawlers that can stretch for many miles outward from the main part of the storm as these did. The main part of the storms were located in Elizabeth City and further south and west but the lightning in the top of the storm would travel along the blown off tops of the storm call the Anvil. The Anvil has light rain and takes time to build a charge up in the high base of the clouds but when it releases it’s energy some of the most spectacular lightning can happen.

Summer Time Thunderstorms

William Coyle — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:00:05 +0000

These storms rolled in on June 18, 2008 and lasted into the morning of the 19th. I need to stop using this spot so much because I like to change my foreground as much as I can but most of the photogenic storms have rolled over the Chesapeake Bay leaving me only a couple of options and this one is the closest to the couple of setup spots I have. I also had time to roll my HD camera on this one so the Sony FX1 did a fine job catching some High Def lightning. I have a little time before my next wedding and this leaves me some down time to fix some stuff around the house and maybe a little time to shoot some new photos of my daughter Madison so look for those as well. PS, yes that is someone fishing in the photo with a metal pole in the air…

Hometown Lightning

William Coyle — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:40:01 +0000

Usually by this time of year I have at least two to three sets of decent lightning photos, but this year has been rather slow and with me traveling I have missed a couple of local storms which still have not been up to par with what we had this time last year. As I said in the last post I was born and raised in western Ohio and lived many of my teen age years in a small town 15 miles northwest of Dayton, Ohio. Most wedding photographers check the weather to see if rain is forecasted during an upcoming shoot and I do as well but I look for the possibility of storms during the night time hours as I did when I was up here for the Ohio wedding. The storm were less then good but I managed to get one or two meager shots facing the drive end theater in Clayton, Ohio.