Chincoteague Virginia

A Photography Adventure With Friends

November 2010

It's been a couple years since our last trip to Chincoteague VA and the thing we remember most about that trip was the wind and RAIN.  So when our friends Robin and Judy wrote to say they were going back to revisit the island for some picture taking, we said we'd join them.  We booked a couple nights in one of the hotels and made the five hour journey from Pennsylvania into Maryland and thru Delaware to Virginia.  Chincoteague is just over the line in Virginia.

The Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 14,000+ acres and has everything from woods, saltwater and freshwater marshes and a beach.  All of this provides habitat for a wide variety of wildlife as well as the famous Chincoteague Ponies.  Ponies, I might add, that are horses to this writer.

This time, besides camera gear, I was wearing a GPS for use in geotagging our images.  The software that came with the unit also superimposed our track on a map.  In 1-1/2 days we pretty much covered everywhere visitors were allowed to go.

During our time on the island we photographed two sunrises and one sunset.  We also took hundreds of images of any wildlife that stood still long enough for us to photograph.  Some of the creatures, like the white egret shown in these images, stood there so long that we were wondering if we needed to secure a model release.  No trip to the island would be complete without capturing some images of the lighthouse.  Robin even introduced us to a lighthouse perspective we hadn't seen before which was a treat.  I had my infrared camera with me and even put it to use at the lighthouse.

Clicking on these images will take you to a larger view on flickr.  In addition to a larger view of the image, the flickr page will also provide camera information (make, model, settings) and a map indicating where we were when taking the picture.  Click on the map then select satellite view... it's neat.

If you are wondering WHO took a specific image, look at the make/model camera used.

Kathy used a Nikon D60.

Joe used a Nikon D300, Canon SX20 IS, and a Nikon CP5400.

Wildlife

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