Angel Oak is a Southern live oak located in Angel Oak Park on Johns Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The tree is believed to be around 400 years old.It stands 66.5 ft. tall, measures 28 ft. in circumference, and produces shade that covers 17,200 square feet. Its longest branch distance is 187 ft. in length.

The oak derives its name from the estate of Justus Angel and his wife, Martha Waight Tucker Angel. Local folklore tells stories of ghosts of former slaves appearing as angels around the tree.

There is much to see in Charleston, which was one of the largest cities prior to the Civil War. I recommend the French Huguenot Church and cemetery and 2nd Presbyterian Church. i once talked my way into climbing the steeple of the 2nd Pres. Chur. If history is an interest, see the Jos. Manigault Home and the other old homes. Ask why the kitchens are detached. The Market is interesting. They play down that the Market was a slave market before the Civil War. The homes were built with virgin pine and have joists you cannot put your arms around. Many of the old homes in the Battery area have gardens, and you might be able to get access to them. I shot the attached photo on the Battery shortly after sunrise.

Also, as the locals say, at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, the Atlantic Ocean is formed.

Fort Sumter is a usual tourist haunt, but across the mouth of the harbor in Mt. Pleasant is Fort Moultrie, a Revolutionary War battlement. It is the place of origin of the name "Palmetto State". On the Moultrie side, i once caught a 40" hammerhead shark fishing at the opening of the harbor.

One or two of the restaurants feature vegetables that they believe were as they grew 200 yrs. ago, along with original recipes.

It's fun to see if you can hire a boat and captain for a booze cruise of the harbor/photo safari.

Good luck.

Once you start looking around Charleston you may want to flip your itinerary and do the week in Charleston with a few days in Myrtle Beach. I lived there for about six years and go back yearly since my youngest daughter loved the area so much she moved back there when she finished college. I could write a whole book on things to see and do there and yet each year I go back I still take hundreds of photos of everything from Magnolia Gardens (make sure and do the swamp walk where you will see many birds, turtles, and alligators), the Battery (the area along the Charleston harbor where the sea wall is located --- where you will see Fort Sumter, Rainbow Row, and White Point Gardens where some of the grandest of the Old Charleston mansions are located), and the parks and bridges in the area. Go over to Mt. Pleasant (my daughter lives there) and have a meal along Shem Creek. The best of Charleston's restaurants are not along the creek but they are good and the atmosphere is the best in the area. Sit outside on the deck at one of these restaurants and watch the fishing boats just yards away unloading the "catch of the day" or go to the Shem Creek Bar and Grill on the other side of the highway and sit on their deck and enjoy the views looking over the salt marshes and the activity of small fishing boats and birds (the large fishing boats can't get under the bridge). There is also a very long boardwalk that runs along Shem Creek and I would encourage you to make the walk to the end where you can see fishing boats, pelicans, other water birds, people on paddle boards cruising down the creek and kayakers meandering through the salt marshes. The park along the waterfront of the Cooper River in downtown Charleston is a nice pleasant place to visit. They have some wonderful fountains there with one being a well known one called the Pineapple fountain. From there you can walk down to Fleet Landing, a restaurant that sits out in the Cooper River. During WWII it was a stores warehouse for the navy and from there supplies were ferried out to the warships anchored along the river. The City Market is a "must see". It runs for four blocks in the center of downtown and offers a wide variety of local art including the famous Gulla woven baskets of local weavers (Gulla is a language native to SC. It is made up of English, French, and African dialects and when you hear it spoken it will take a little getting used to before you readily understand what is being said). You will see several of these weavers on the sidewalks outside the market weaving the baskets. They are not inexpensive but if you want one you will get a better buy if you wait and go to one of the stands along hwy. 17 (the road you will take to Myrtle Beach). There are a number of those stands along both sides of the highway and they have to compete for business while the crafters at the market have an unlimited supply of tourists to sell to. There is a motel in downtown Charleston where you can start a self directed walking tour. They will give you a tape recorder (most likely an mp3 player now days). It will instruct you to turn right out of the front of the motel, pause the recorder, walk one block and when on that corner hit the play button. It will then describe the things you see from that vantage point. It will continue giving instructions like that until you are back to the motel. Two other ways to get good history of the area: There are guided walking tours that assemble around the old customs house (across the street and down a little from the new customs house), and the other is to take a carriage ride. To get a lot of history you may want to take more than one of those since one carriage ride covers one part of the area while other rides cover a different area. Charleston is noted for its great restaurants many four star and several five star but one of my favorites is 82 Queen Street. While it may not be in the top 10, it still receives 4 1/2 stars and has the best Shrimp and Grits I've had. I would like it if you sent me a note on your return and let me know of you experience. You will have a great time there I'm sure.

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That said, in October I bought a new to me film camera. I still shoot film just not in a professional capacity, at least not yet!
I was borrowing a Canon EOS 1n. That camera is so awesome for film still photography that I bought my own so I can shoot it side by side with my digi cameras using all my AF lenses that I use on my latest Canon bodies. Awesome lenses on both bodies!!
I don't shoot film for the experience, I shoot it for the film look.
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