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As you explore all the seasonal things our state has to offer, we invite you to join our “Capture Your Carolina Fall” Photo Challenge!

Pioneer photographer of N.C. and the South. An advocate of equal rights for women. Began career ca. 1904 in this house where she was born.

Aristotle said, “In all things of nature, there is something marvelous.”

So, I went in search of something marvelous. With North Carolina’s vast sights to see, it isn’t a matter of if there are marvelous sights, but which marvelous sight to see. Just a mere hour away from Raleigh, I decided to explore the state’s first nature preserve.

There are pine needles everywhere. The ground is still damp from the night before. I hear the sounds of nature and the crunch of my shoes as I begin my walk.

On November 8, 1950, internationally-renowned photographer and painter Ignatius Brock died at age 83.Born in Jones County in 1866, Brock got his start in photography as an apprentice at the Gerock Studio in New Bern. He moved to New York to study art at the Cooper Union Institute, before returning to North Carolina and opening his first studio in Asheville.

On April 6, 1959, pioneering photographer Bayard Wootten died in New Bern.Born in New Bern in 1875, Wootten left the area to attend college in Greensboro and then teach. She returned to New Bern to help family members. Once back, she did design work to support her family, eventually creating Pepsi-Cola’s first trademarked logo. She embraced photography in 1904 and, after displaying her first photograph that year, orders for her work began to roll in.

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Pioneering North Carolina photographer Bayard Wootten achieved numerous firsts in her field, often endangering her safety to get the picture. Before shifting to photography, she designed the first trademark for Pepsi-Cola. In 1910 Wootten protested sexual discrimination in a professional publication and later took part in suffrage demonstrations.