Jason Miczek

Features

The so-called Beaver Moon rises over the Bank of America high rise tower in uptown Charlotte.
   
  
     
  
   
  
A water bird hunts for fish in St. Andrew Bay as the sun sets, casting an orange glow on the horizon.
     
  
A lone surfer walks across the jettys at St. Andrew State Park after deciding not to enter the water from the rocks lining the pass into the St. Andrew Bay as hurricane Katrina nears landfall.
   
A cat named Stubby, due to her lack of a tail, dangles from a Oak tree as she climbs down from her perch.
   
Matt Locke, 19, of Panama City Beach sits atop a wooden piling to fish for Flounder at the Panama City Marina as stormclouds make way to blue sky.
     
  
William Cratty, 25, of Panama City, places "lazy jacks" (which are ropes to make a mainsail easier to handle) on the sail boat "Blue Goose." Cratty was performing annual repairs with boat owner Warren Drake on the 30-foot Islander in the Massalina Bayou.
   
Children play on a playground jungle gym as the sun sets on the Optimist Club ballfields in Weddington, N.C.
   
Dogs from left: Heidi, Millie and Hana sit in the bed of their owners' Ken and Cristi Karr's Chevrolet pickup truck as the Karrs (who are volunteer firefighters) assist in fighting a fire in Panama City Beach.
     
  
   
An oysterman is silhouetted against the sun as he maneuvers his boat close to the shore to unload the harvested shellfish in Apalachicola, Fla.
   
George Mattison, trumpet and mellowphone player for the "Rory Lewis Band," practices during rehearsal at a converted storage unit in the Steele Creek area of south Charlotte.