By the Beach in November

Hello! The wrath of winter is approaching super fast, isn't it? In order to avoid it for sometime, our cousins and my family made a trip down to North Carolina this past Thanksgiving. I'll tell you now, we had an awesome time, and surprisingly, the weather cooperated with us the whole time!

So we booked a beach house on the islands of the Outer Banks (off the coast of North Carolina). We stayed in a town called Hatteras for about four days . Hatteras is a beautiful town, and there are so many huge vacation houses. Although, when we went, the place was pretty out of season. We rented a huge house that had the beach in the back. This is the beach in November, peoples. Take it in. :)

Check this picture out! A tree rooted into the sand right on the beach! My cousin and I were taking a walk on the beach and we passed by this. We were like, "Hey look, its a tree! How fascinating!" ;) Well it's dead of course because trees as such cannot take in that much salt water. I guess it's just surprising to see a tree in the middle of nowhere on the beach. Now I admit, I cheated on this picture. You can tell I put a cool filter on it, but the picture looks pretty nice with it, right?

This was taken at a place called Jockey's Ridge. This is about an hour away from Hatteras but still on the chain of islands. This place is basically a miniature desert. It 's just a small place filled with huge sand dunes. Literally. Funny enough, on both sides of the dunes is water. (Huge sand dunes, which can be associated with deserts, aren't supposed to have water anywhere near them.) So in this picture, you can see these tiny mountains sticking out, and that comes from a storm from the previous day. This is just a different perspective for something so small. 

This is a picture on the dunes. You can see that it's a busy picture. The clouds are just stunning and looks full in this picture. Then you have the many footprints on the sand as well. The people silhouettes are in the middle. Actually, the spot where I took this picture is the perfect spot for silhouettes, except  it would've been a busy picture (the clouds and footprints). 

This was right next to the dunes, off to the side. The sand dunes were actually very very steep. Jockey's Ridge is actually know for awesome winds. We saw people gliding off the steeps dunes and people kite-flying as well. It's also perfect for sand-sledding, (sledding on sand instead of snow) which works better than sledding on snow, in my opinion.

This was one of my favorites. It's the porch and beach seen through those nets on a window. The angle in which I took it looks really cool. 

This was also the same porch scene. Although... I edited this one. This picture was just ugly before I edited it. I got this idea from one of my Uncles, and his picture looked amazing. It looked like it was taken off a postcard, plus it was taken on a phone. So I go ahead and try to take a similar picture, and this is what I get. I think what was wrong with mine is that the time of day isn't right. (Which affects the lighting) There's not much edited in this. I placed it under a filter and added a frame. 

I took the same view in a closer angle and I edited it intensely. No filters, only the basics. I added plenty of vibrancy, contrast, and reduced the highlights. There's also a small black vinaigrette frame on the edges. It's not that bad... but it's intense.  

This was the floor on the walkway to the beach. You can see the sand inbetween  the boards. This was nothing cool, just figured it would be a nice background/wallpaper.