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 05/15/2009 01:22:43 PM · #1
I'm headed to Myrtle Beach with the family in a couple of weeks. Is there anyone that lives in the area that can point me to a couple of nice photo ops in the area that I should take in besides the usual tourist spots? We have been there three times and besides the normal spots I've not really spent much time with the camera. Thanks

Matt
 05/15/2009 01:47:19 PM · #2
I will be there as well. June 28 through July 5th. :)
05/15/2009 02:06:09 PM · #3
i live an hour away. Charleston is a nice place to take pictures as well
 05/16/2009 08:30:50 PM · #4
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm trying to avoid having to leave MB too far for photo ops, just looking for something to do when my wife and son get tired, or I get tired of shopping!

Matt
 05/16/2009 08:58:20 PM · #5
Check out Huntington Beach State Park. It's a short ways south of MB, and is usually much less crowded. There's a neat causeway you cross driving into the park that almost always had 'gators, waterfowl, and birds of prey around last time I was there. And then the beach and dunes are nice, too.
 05/16/2009 09:30:00 PM · #6
The Pavilion is a fun place to shoot. It's an old amusement park. There are also skaters around and it's on the beach.



Message edited by author 2009-05-16 21:30:11.
 05/16/2009 09:39:03 PM · #7
my husband daughter and I were in North Myrtle Beach in march...I'd suggest a trip up to the south end of NC their beaches are wonderful.........South of Charleston Middleton Plantation is a photographers heavan.....oldest gardens in the US or something like that it was gorgoues in march I can't imagine how much cooler it is in may and go to SAvannah GA WOW WOW WOW is all I have to say about that one...........My one time experience in North Myrtle Beach has left both my husband and I (small town Northern MN residents) thinkin that a retirement partime home in North Myrtle beach or southern NC might be just the ticket enjoy your time there
 05/16/2009 09:40:34 PM · #8
Sorry Matt, I missed that about you not wanting to travel........but if you guys want the best damn food the crap hang on b ecause this place rocks and you get all kinds of meat the best salad bar in the world and I figured we would be paying a hundred a plate it was more like 45...........RIos?
 05/16/2009 09:42:06 PM · #9
//www.rioz.com/

seriously a great deal wow!
 05/31/2009 05:26:53 PM · #10
I hope he made it to the south end, Murrells Inlet or on the waterway, and up north in Little River, Cherry Grove area, so much nicer. In Myrtle Beach there really isn't anything to interesting besides the people who visit here. But it isn't always about the subject as the photographer making the subject.

Today I was out photographing people on the beach and was harassed and threated by a business owner of one of the Watersports businesses saying I can't take pictures of people on the banana boats or any of his employees on the beach. Guy really won't be getting a recommendation from my tourist website, I will only be recommending the other watersports businesses.

Steve - //funinmb.com - Myrtle Beach information for locals and visitors

06/09/2009 05:08:12 PM · #11
Who wants to have a gtg for the charleston area?
 06/09/2009 09:53:28 PM · #12
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Check out Huntington Beach State Park. It's a short ways south of MB, and is usually much less crowded. There's a neat causeway you cross driving into the park that almost always had 'gators, waterfowl, and birds of prey around last time I was there. And then the beach and dunes are nice, too.


I have to Thank you for the recommendation. I had the most amazing experience of my life here this evening. I'll hopefully upload some photos this evening if the internet will hold up. Wow just wow.

Matt
 06/09/2009 10:03:18 PM · #13
Originally posted by MattO:
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Check out Huntington Beach State Park. It's a short ways south of MB, and is usually much less crowded. There's a neat causeway you cross driving into the park that almost always had 'gators, waterfowl, and birds of prey around last time I was there. And then the beach and dunes are nice, too.


I have to Thank you for the recommendation. I had the most amazing experience of my life here this evening. I'll hopefully upload some photos this evening if the internet will hold up. Wow just wow.

Matt

make sure you save something for freestudy ;-)
 06/09/2009 10:07:58 PM · #14
Originally posted by mgarsteck:
Who wants to have a gtg for the charleston area?


You might consider making a new thread for this one in the Out and About area. I'd be interested, though I tried this once a while ago and the response was lukewarm at best.

eta: Oh, and I'm being re-stationed in GA at the end of this month. :)

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 06/10/2009 12:02:39 AM · #15
Originally posted by Skip:
Originally posted by MattO:
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Check out Huntington Beach State Park. It's a short ways south of MB, and is usually much less crowded. There's a neat causeway you cross driving into the park that almost always had 'gators, waterfowl, and birds of prey around last time I was there. And then the beach and dunes are nice, too.


I have to Thank you for the recommendation. I had the most amazing experience of my life here this evening. I'll hopefully upload some photos this evening if the internet will hold up. Wow just wow.

Matt

make sure you save something for freestudy ;-)


LOL nothing that amazing.........heck my snapshots of my son and dad do better then anything I plan anyway! BTW good to see you back here once in a while.

Matt
 06/12/2009 11:17:48 PM · #16
OK so Internets at the hotel in MB was as flaky as could be, so no photos. However I'm on the way home and stopped in TN for the night. I'll post a few. First let me say the experience to be had at Huntington Beach State park is well worth the drive from MB. We got there too late for the Castle tour but still walked around the outside and got a feel for it. Walked the Causeway, but realized we had gotten there way too early for some action. As we started to leave a bit disappointed this was realized, so I pulled the car over had the wife drop me off and go park and I'd walk back to the car. OMG am I glad I did.

was the first thing I saw as I started to walk down the roadside on the freshwater side. Then as I walked a bit further I spot this on the saltwater side kind of unusual for them to not be on the freshwater side so I started photographing him to see what was up, so I backup and continue to shoot him as he walks out of the water on the mud, and then I think he is going to walk into the woods. Only to my surprise he wanted to walk across the road.... so I continue shooting him without realizing there is now nothing between him and I besides air and about 20 feet. He crosses the street and then heads into the water. Then it sinks in how dumb what I did could have been! But regardless my heart is pumping and my adrenaline is flowing what a freaking rush! He is about 5.5 to 6 feet long by my estimate.

The rest of the evening was pretty nice as well as I shot several more gators and then a couple more birds.



If you get the chance, go there late in the evening and make sure you take a long lens and your patience and enjoy.

Matt
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