Charleston Streets

Here are more shots around the beautiful city of Charleston.

There are alleys and metal balconies.

Some of the streets are cobblestone.

There are even old-fashioned gas lamps.

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Another Folly Beach Bird

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Thunderbirds (3)

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Charleston - Custom House & Market

This post will highlight a couple of the most famous buildings in Charleston. First is the United States Customs House.

Completed in 1879, it's one of the city's most distinctive buildings.

I loved this tree in the side yard - there's nothing like this where I live.

The City Market is a bustling place with lots of vendors selling things to tourists, and definitely worth a look.

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Wolf!

It's the big brother of Socks and Laika, for Camera Critters and Saturday's Critters.

To answer Klara's question on my previous post, I got that circle of sky by carefully choosing a spot for the photo; the fisheye lens helps make the trees seem taller, and anything going directly towards the photo's center doesn't show the infamous fisheye curve. I do very little post-processing on any of my photos. Sometimes I'll crop a little or rotate the shot slightly if I didn't get my composition right when I took the photo, and perform some minor color correction, but that's it.

Black Forest Trees

For Skywatch Friday, here's a recent shot from a walk in a nearby park, taken with my ultra-wide fisheye lens to make them seem taller than they are.

Charleston Bridge

I always like photographing bridges, and so here's the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.

And of course I had to get it with a ship in the frame - two impressive human creations.

And simply because this seems to be a water-themed post, here's a shot of one of the many rivers in the area, I don't remember exactly which one.

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