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#CharlestonSC
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This is a high-quality, full-length portrait of a woman in a stylized superhero costume, clearly inspired by the Marvel character Jean Grey (as Phoenix or from the 90s X-Men era). Composition and Subject Pose: The subject is standing on what appears to be a concrete rooftop or parking deck, posed in a confident, dynamic stance with one foot arched. Costume: She is wearing a form-fitting bodysuit featuring a vibrant yellow and blue color scheme with a metallic, reflective sheen. The design includes a red "X" emblem on the belt. Hair and Makeup: She has long, flowing red hair and blue facial markings on her cheek, consistent with the character's comic book aesthetic. Effects: Post-production digital effects have been added, including glowing purple and white lightning energy swirling around her arm and a bright lens flare emanating from a headpiece or "psychic" point on her forehead. Technical Details Depth of Field: The image uses a shallow depth of field, creating a soft, blurred background (bokeh) that keeps the focus entirely on the subject. Lighting: The lighting is soft and even, likely shot during "blue hour" or an overcast day, which allows the saturated colors of the suit and the digital glow effects to pop.
“Xavier trained her. The cosmos unleashed her.”
Model: Milaya
See comment for SOOC
#JeanGrey #XMen #DarkPhoenix #MarvelComics #XMenCosplay #XMen97 #WomenOfMarvel
#charlestonsc #nikon #godox #offcameraflash #softbox #OutdoorShoot #portrait #ButroModel
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This striking long-exposure photograph features a woman posing at night on a brick-paved walkway, framed by the reaching branches of large trees and a glowing vintage-style streetlamp. The centerpiece of the image is a vibrant, fiery orange and yellow light halo created by a Fotorgear Magilight light-painting tool behind her. The woman is dressed in a white crop top and a long, floral-patterned skirt, striking a confident pose with her arms raised to her head. The contrast between the dark, natural silhouettes of the trees and the high-energy, artificial light creates a magical, ethereal atmosphere.
"Brazilian Ring of Fire"
Lightpainting w/Mariana 🇧🇷
Charleston, SC 📍
6-sec exposure
#LightPainting #LongExposure #NighttimePhotography #PhotographyArt #CreativePhotography #LightArt #NeonLights #NighttimeShots #LightGraffiti #charlestonsc #nikon #brasileira #ButroModel
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Abstract geometric composition of interlocking, stacked rectangular forms arranged in a repeating grid. The blocks alternate in height and direction, creating zigzagging pathways and strong depth cues through layered linework and occlusion. A limited palette of cream, dark teal, and black emphasizes contrast and structure, giving the piece an architectural, almost topographic feel.
GM friends!
Harmonics (R code)
#codeart #generativeart #proceduralart #genartclub #charlestonsc
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Subject and Composition The Pose: The woman is standing with one leg bent, her foot resting against the reflective wall. Both arms are raised gracefully above her head, creating a tall, elegant silhouette. Her expression is focused and serene, looking directly toward the camera. The Attire: She wears a long, sleeveless red dress with a deep V-neckline and a high thigh slit. Her outfit is completed with matching red high-heeled shoes featuring ruffled detailing on the straps. Reflection: The composition makes effective use of the dark, mirrored tiles on the left, which double the visual impact of the red dress and the subject's form. Environment and Lighting Setting: The background features a dark, modern interior. To the right, there is a large wooden door with a distinctive geometric window and the number "227" visible near the bottom. The floor is a neutral-toned, textured surface. Lighting: The lighting is dramatic and directional, highlighting the contours of the subject and the texture of the dress while allowing the background to fall into deep shadow.
"Theater Magic"
Model: Milaya
Charleston, SC. 📍
#CharlestonSC 📍
#nikon #godox #offcameraflash #softbox
#OutdoorFashionShoot #OutdoorShoot #portrait #FashionPhotography #FashionEditorial #OutdoorPhotography #Model #FashionModel #OutdoorFashion #brunette #photography #ButroModel
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life takes you down many paths, but the best ones lead to the beach 🌊
#IOP #IsleofPalms #CharlestonSC
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The image depicts a nighttime scene of Charleston's Ravenel Bridge over the Cooper River, with the bridge's lights reflected in the water below. The bridge is illuminated by yellow lights, and its cables are visible as it spans across the water. In the background, there are other lights visible on the horizon, suggesting that the bridge is located near a city or town. Here is a detailed description of the image: - *Bridge:* - Type: Cable-stayed bridge - Color: Yellow lights illuminating the structure - Cables: Visible and stretching from the towers to the roadway - Towers: Two tall towers supporting the cables - Roadway: A single level with no visible traffic - *Water:* - Color: Dark blue-black - Reflections: Yellow lights from the bridge reflected on the surface - Depth: Appears to be deep, with no visible bottom - *Background:* - Sky: Dark blue-black - Lights: Visible on the horizon, suggesting a city or town nearby In summary, the image shows a cable-stayed bridge at night, with yellow lights illuminating the structure and its cables. The bridge spans across dark water, with reflections of the lights visible on the surface.
"Charleston’s crown jewel"
Ravenel Bridge at night
#CharlestonSC #LowcountryLife
#CharlestonTourism #SouthernCharm #HistoricCharleston #PalmettoState #CharlestonArchitecture #VisitCharleston #ravenelbridge #sunset #bridge #ButroTravel
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#UTRKateJoin finishing her East Coast run before Hawaii 🌺✈️
📍 #CharlestonSC | March 28
📍 #ColumbiaSC | March 28–29
📍 #HonoluluHI | April 2–6
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Meet Macie Thomas, a Legal Assistant in our Charleston office 💙
We’re grateful to have Macie on our team and proud of the compassion and dedication she brings to her work every day.
#JoyeLawFirmInjuryLawyers #MeetTheTeam #CharlestonSC #WestAshley #TeamJoye #PersonalInjuryLaw
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This is a high-contrast portrait of a woman posing against a dark, reflective surface in what appears to be an outdoor corridor or walkway. Subject and Attire The Model: A woman with long, blonde hair and a fair complexion. Clothing: She is wearing a vibrant red, floor-length dress with an off-the-shoulder neckline and a high slit that reveals her left leg. Details: Her makeup features bold red lipstick that matches her dress and red nail polish. Composition and Setting The Reflection: The woman is leaning against a dark, tinted glass wall or window that creates a clear, slightly moody reflection of her profile. Environment: The setting appears to be a modern architectural space at night or in low light. The ground is made of large, dark stone or slate tiles. Lighting: The lighting is dramatic and directional, highlighting the model while leaving the background in deep shadow, which creates a sophisticated, cinematic atmosphere. Photography Style Pose: She is posed with her hands resting against the reflective surface, looking slightly away from the camera with a serious expression.
"Reflections of elegance"
Model: Sarah
#CharlestonSC 📍
#nikon #godox #offcameraflash #softbox
#OutdoorFashionShoot #OutdoorShoot #portrait #FashionPhotography #FashionEditorial #OutdoorPhotography #Model #FashionModel #OutdoorFashion #blonde #photography #ButroModel
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Having shot our way through a bit of fashion and some playful things, we returned to the reason for the adventure. Nudity and doughnuts. M eyed the bin of powdered sugar and said, "later". The first bites were deliberate although not tentative. That wasn't really her style. But it didn't take long for filling and glaze to be everywhere and the shoot became progressively more hectic. I was traveling with a pretty basic kit and it was clearly more than I could handle. At the time I didn't know how to really approach editing and a lot of this night has sat for years, lost in darkness and blur. I didn't start using Lightroom until the pandemic gave me a forced vacation and six years later I actually feel pretty comfortable on the lite version. Still don't understand the legacy product one bit. We were pretty low light in the old boat. I enlisted every lamp in the place but shutter speed vs blur was a huge problem. It was difficult for either of us to curb our enthusiasm enough to slow down. Like most mind-blowing shoots the mere fact that this was unfolding in front of me was almost too much to deal with in the moment, let alone track ISO and f-stop. I didn't have any fast lenses, which would have helped.
M became more and more feral as she tore through the box of doughnuts yet somehow remaining mostly poised and keeping her makeup together. Have I mentioned how impressed I am with her? LOL. She's incredible. The best part of revisiting SOME shoots is to remind myself that I did OK or even better than I thought at the moment. I'm pretty hard on myself immediately after a shoot. My models are badasses and I am constantly trying to keep up with them. Can I perform MY job as well as THEY perform THEIRS? Not likely. When I look around I realize that almost all of my friends make me feel like a slacker at some point. Kurt is a globe-trotting computer geek who turned his day job into a vehicle for playing DJ gigs all over the world and burrowing into a world-beat music scene that has given him amazing experiences. Chet is a studiously perfect guitarist who has toured the world on the frets but is also a network/IT sort and a self-taught master of multiple production disciplines. Larry is just a goddamned FREAK who is 150% freak at all times, like an acid-addled muppet who just ate a box of chocolate-covered espresso beans. Everywhere I look people are working far harder than I am. But these adventures....I wouldn't trade them for the world. I adore meeting new people and finding ourselves....DOING THIS. Squatting naked on the rough wooden planks of a repurposed river scow with jelly filling plopping off a knuckle. How OFTEN will we ever do THIS again?
Whew. It took me longer to scroll through the shoot than it did to do it in the first place. Time to get to other tasks. I went out with a friend the other night and we made a beeline for the front of the stage. The band was running a small club tour as a shakedown for what I assume will be a mid-afternoon-slot at summer festivals and it was awesome. There had been a moment where my inner-introvert tried to talk me out of DOING THE THING but there was no way back and I was fully committed so there was only forward. Imagine if we could all just pry ourselves out into the world and experience the most amazing and creative things we've ever done, even just once a month or every other. The last ten years have stocked me with a few dozen "once in a lifetime" experiences. Some more sublime than others. Sometimes it's enough to sneak into the hot spring pool at midnight with a bottle of wine (careful, please, don't leave broken glass for others) and bob around like a satiated cork staring into the Milky Way above you. Sometimes it's standing on top of a 12' ladder to get a picture of 200 of your closest weirdest friends, screaming at them like some kind of Prussian film director, waving your arms and snapping the perfect group picture before everyone strips off their clothes and runs into the forest to cavort for the rest of the day. Sometimes it's having someone wonderful burrow into your side and fall asleep on you as you drive through gloaming mountains that stick out of the desert like enormous wizards hats topped with snow, knowing there is a secret forest in the barren landscape and she will wake to a sparkling mountain lake surrounded by aspen. More, please.
How it started.....and how it ended.
More in the alt-text.
#muse #donuts #messy #roadtrip #onaboat #pdxphotographer #charlestonsc #BKeDSHoP #ravenous
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💡 Myth: You need 20% down to buy a home.
Not true! While putting 20% down can have benefits, it’s definitely not the only option.
There are several loan programs designed to help buyers get into a home with less money upfront:
#charlestonrealestate #charlestonsc
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Back in the Before Times I used to take the winter holidays to go explore a new city. They're not perfectly timed -- I'm not sick to death of endless rain until the end of January but they used to coincide with lull in the work seasons and it seemed a reasonable way to break up the year. In the 2010's I seemed to have a habit of picking places and booking my travel only to have the city leveled by a hurricane two or three weeks before I arrived. Despite the tribulations, Charleston has always been incredibly welcoming. And as I type this it occurs to me that I am badly overdue for a visit. I arrived the day after Thanksgiving and my cab driver from the airport was a friendly kid. When I mentioned that I was a photographer he promptly volunteered that he knew a wonderful model and pointed me to Meredith's Insta. By the time I got to my lodgings, a century-old scow converted to a live aboard in the river, we were meeting for lunch the next day. M proceeded to run me ragged the next day (and did it in heels!). She had the codes to every little locked alleyway and we ran through the college campus sneaking into sun porches and gorgeous spiral stairways. Winding up at the Customs House to shoot on the stairs at sunset, I pointed at the restaurant across the street and suggested we both needed dinner. It turned out to be a fantastic choice as it was one of the best joints in town. Our waiter pointed us in the right direction and was filling our wine glasses when I asked Meredith if there was anything she might want to shoot while I was in town. Much to his credit, he didn't spill a drop when she came back with a quippy, "Well...I guess I would be happiest naked and covered with doughnuts!" I allowed that such a thing could be made to happen.
We reconvened the next day at the boat. I was armed with a few props I had thrown into my bags and a fresh box of doughnuts along with a quart container of powdered sugar. We started with some warmups. M had worn a stylish dress with an external corset and I was just being impressed all over again with her fashion sense. She had brought a fuzzy coat, as well, and we ran through those looks before getting to simpler things -- a scarf, a necklace, some fairy lights. Honestly, I've tended to skip the warmups and gnash my teeth over how to edit the meat of the shoot but tonight I walked through the whole thing and was absolutely impressed all over again. Meredith was just plain wonderful and I cannot say it enough. I go through these files at least once a year and I probably send her a smile and a thank you note every time. I was still very very new in my jump into photography and had just begun working with "real" models. Meredith had a strong sense of herself and her movements and during our jaunt around the city she had me shooting toward her style, which was a wonderful new experience for me. It got me thinking about the nature of collaborative work and how we influence one another as we collide creatively. That internal dialogue has continued ever since and it's become something I ask myself every time I review files. It's helped me SEE what models are doing and it's changed the way I see the archive. It's a multi-dimensional Venn diagram of location, mood, props, attitude, me, them, the tools....lest I get big-headed at my own genius, this conversation helps keep me down to earth. Also, Meredith is just a neat person and I immediately considered her a friend. I have a soft spot for goofballs.
As I've wandered through photography, I've come to think of it as documentary more and more. It may sound cliche but it really is a privilege to meet a stranger and 40 minutes later be rendering my own idea of some intimate persona they possess. It's not just about capturing someone being "beautiful" but looking for the little smiles as we tell a joke or have an idea. The conversation proceeds on multiple levels and there's no set path. I always try to come armed with a few different ideas but I'm quick to abandon them when we find something that really resonates. Over time, my floor has gotten higher -- I can pull a decent photo out of almost any environment. Sometimes I think that the ceiling has remained in place, worry that I haven't gotten any better but going through the archive quickly disabuses me of that notion. The work has changed. When the pandemic took my studio away I began to work with more natural light and THAT has been a huge shift that has changed the nature of my work. At one point I was very concerned with how to keep the ME-ness of what I was doing while moving to natural light but that hasn't been an issue. I worry about seeing too much of other peoples work -- I see things that I really like but can't replicate or just that I'll start to look like everyone else. Every few years, though, I get a chance to look behind the scenes at the shot-by-shot work of other photographers and honestly it's a big ego stroke. Oh, the shots on either side of these suck. I'm not even remotely good shot-by-shot. And these might only be good because I was there, because it's a smile and an adventure with a new friend and a memory that keeps me laughing.
I tell this story a lot and keep looking for the right way to tell it because it was very formative for me. More in the alt-text. #muse #collaboration #roadtrip #travelingphotographer #serendipity #charlestonsc #adventures
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Rave (R code)
This piece was created using the R statistics language, with custom functions to efficiently identify points within convex and concave polygons. These enabled circle placement & clipping within complex tiles.
#codeart #generativeart #proceduralart #genartclub #charlestonsc
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#UTRKateJoin continues her coast-to-coast takeover ✈️🔥
📍 #DetroitMI | March 24–25
📍 #LouisvilleKY | March 26–27
📍 #CharlestonSC | March 28
📍 #ColumbiaSC | March 28–29
📍 #HonoluluHI | April 2–6 🌺
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#MarginalRisk in SE US esp #CharlestonSC #NorthCharleston #Summerville #MountPleasantSC #GooseCreek #SumterSC #HiltonHeadIsland #MyrtleBeach #SavannahGA #Statesboro #Hinesville #WilmingtonNC
5% #Wind/ <2% #Tornado/ <5% #Hail risk
#Wxx #WxTwitter #SPC #SevereWx #BskyWx #Bsky #NCwx #SCwx #GAwx
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#MarginalRisk in SE US esp #CharlestonSC #NorthCharleston #Summerville #MountPleasantSC #GooseCreek #SumterSC #HiltonHeadIsland #MyrtleBeach #SavannahGA #Statesboro #Hinesville #WilmingtonNC
5% #Wind/ <2% #Tornado/ <5% #Hail risk
#Wxx #WxTwitter #SPC #SevereWx #BskyWx #Bsky #NCwx #SCwx #GAwx
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#MarginalRisk in SE US esp #CharlestonSC #NorthCharleston #Summerville #MountPleasantSC #ColumbiaSC #MyrtleBeach #FlorenceSc #AugustaGA #SavannahGA #Macon #WilmingtonNC #FayettevilleNC #JacksonvilleNC
5% #SevereWx risk
#Wxx #WxTwitter #SPC #Tornado #Wind #Hail #BskyWx #Bsky #NCwx #SCwx #GAwx
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#MarginalRisk in SE US esp #CharlestonSC #NorthCharleston #Summerville #MountPleasantSC #GooseCreek #ColumbiaSC #MyrtleBeach #FlorenceSc #HiltonHeadIsland #AugustaGA #SavannahGA #Macon #WilmingtonNC
5% #SevereWx risk
#Wxx #WxTwitter #SPC #Tornado #Wind #Hail #BskyWx #Bsky #NCwx #SCwx #GAwx
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A packed travel schedule with exciting stops across the country. ✈️🔥
📍 #NaplesFL | March 21
📍 #Chicago | March 22–23
📍 #DetroitMI | March 24–25
📍 #LouisvilleKY | March 26–27
📍 #CharlestonSC | March 28
#UTRKateJoin is taking the spotlight from coast to coast
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A packed travel schedule with exciting stops across the country. ✈️🔥
📍 #Tampa | March 16
📍 #NaplesFL | March 17–21
📍 #Chicago | March 22–23
📍 #DetroitMI | March 24–25
📍 #LouisvilleKY | March 26–27
📍 #CharlestonSC | March 28
#UTRKateJoin is taking the spotlight from coast to coast
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