ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This is a photo of Johnnie Mercer's Pier on Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. I was in town for a short time and wanted to head to the beach to try to get some sunrise photos of the water and of this pier. I got to the beach well before the sunrise when it was still dark. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate and there was a lot of cloud cover. I quickly realized that the sunrise photo was probably out of the question.

However, it's such a nice pier and the cloud cover added a lot of drama to the sky. I decided to pivot from going for a nice, colorful sunrise photo of the beach and pier, to a more ominous, black and white photo of the beach and pier. Using a long exposure shot, I was able to accentuate the drama of the beach scene to create this image.

AUTHOR
Mark Chen is a self-taught photographer based out of the Washington DC area. Having studied and worked as an engineer, he took up photography as an outlet to express his creative side. He enjoys working within all genres of photography, and does not hesitate to explore outside his comfort zone.

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