A Daniel Pullen image showing surfers at sunrise.Pullen's Creativity Takes Top Award for the Year
Daniel Pullen was just named the Outer Banks 2018 People's Choice artist and it feels good to know that sometimes the good guys really do win.
Daniel, who's a Hatteras native, is an extraordinarily talented photographer. In a place that with considerable justification, views its wedding photographers as some of the best anywhere, Daniel, working with his wife, Kate, really stands out.
But for the real genius of his photography, check out Daniel Pullen Photography.
The scope of images he captures is astonishing. Yet beyond that it is the style and artistry of his work that makes him so compelling.
Before he was a wedding photographer, Daniel was fascinated by capturing the essence of surfing and it was in his surfing images that the Outer Banks community first became aware of his talent.
His surf photography alone could not support him, which is why he turned to wedding photography. When he did, though, he refused to compromise on creativity or artistry.
However, even as he as built his reputation as a wedding photographer, his ability to isolate a moment in time to tell the story of a surfer on an ideal break, or at that perfect moment as the sunrises and the waves are crisp and even has grown.
As he has gained confidence in what he wants to do with photography, his creativity has expanded and become profound at times. The photographs he published following a full moon over Cape Hatteras Lighthouse are iconic and may be the best that have been done.
He has not limited himself to just capturing images of moments in time, whether on the water or during a full moon. Pullen's images of the power of hurricane's that have wreaked havoc on Hatteras Island perfectly recreate the power and destruction of the storms.
Here's the topper to the story—Daniel is a heck of a nice guy. A little bit shy, soft-spoken, but certainly confident when the has a camera in his hand.
