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The News & Observer photo staff wants to hear from you. We see the prolific number of photos readers submit to share.triangle.com, and appreciate this impressive level of participation. We want to share some of our work, and allow you to comment on it in this forum. Maybe you have a specific question about how we got the photo, or what equipment we used. We’ll do our best to give you an answer. Maybe you have a suggestion for what we should take a photo of. Maybe you have a similar image that you want to share with us. From time to time, we’ll put a topic on the table and ask you to photograph it and post to share.triangle.com. We’ll give feedback there as well. Anyway, we’ll keep this as loose as possible so you can find your way to interact with N&O photojournalists. These photos by Chris Seward, Corey Lowenstein and Robert Willett comes from their photo column The View. The column is reproduced in black and white and appears on page 2B in the City/State section on Saturdays. You can find it on the web at: http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/family_community/view/

The View from.. The Point at Cape Hatteras  -- Jim Darges from Raleigh casts out from the shimmering sunlight into the waters at the Point of Cape Hatteras late one afternoon.  The Point is a revered place by North Carolina anglers, reachable only by 4-wheel drive vehicle.  "This is just a special place," Darges said.  "You're at the very tip, the very edge, way out in the ocean."  The landmark Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is about a mile or two behind him -- warning seafarers for generations of this tip of the Graveyard of the Atlantic.  I was on the Outer Banks for a couple of other assignments.  Before I went, Outdoors Editor Mike Zlotnicki and I had talked about getting some pictures at "The Point".  I said I had never been there, I only knew it from the map; he said it was a really neat place worth checking out.  When I finished my other assignment, I headed out to the Point in the late afternoon.  Near the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and reachable only by 4-wheel drive, I caught a ride out there. When I got out there, the place was loaded with 4-wheelers, families and fishermen.  The tip of North Carolina that juts way out into the ocean, it's a very dynamic place.  The tide was coming in-- the actual "point" changed under my feet by several yards with every crashing wave.  It was really neat to see firsthand how a barrier island changes.
The fisherman in the photo lined up nicely with the sun in silhouette.  That's when I made the picture.
Staff photo by Chris Seward

Anxious West Johnston High School students (l-r) Jessica Smith, Nancy Ormond, Jill Martin, and Amy Broderick peek out of the curtain to get a look at the empty school auditorium at before the doors opened for their performance on May 24, 2007. Forty girls at the school tried out for the show, but only 12 were selected. The dance and choral programs at the school presented "A Spring Extravaganza" which featured the modern dance piece "Pulse." Artistic Director Richard Patten, not seen, who has been a working dancer in New York City for the past 15 years, returned home to North Carolina and took over the program in mid school year. He has already seen an increased interest amongst students and he expects more course offerings next year. Patten hopes to feature swing numbers and dances from around the world in the next school year. Staff photo by Corey Lowenstein

 
Dressed in overalls, 1-year-old Hank Neal of Carrboro is surrounded by musicians from The Kickin Grass Band during a performance at the Chapel Hill Creamery. “He likes music a lot. I remember him standing in the center wanting to to pluck their strings, and the band was very kind to him,” said his mother, Sheila Neal. The five members of Kickin Grass have been playing bluegrass music together since 2002. Staff photo by Robert Willett