On this particular evening I thought the conditions looked promising for a nice sunset. There were light clouds to reflect and defuse the light but nothing so dense to completely block it.
As I grabbed my camera gear I decided to take the “back-way” to the beach which included a long boardwalk across a natural … Read More
The next opportunity to capture a gulf coast sunset came as we ate dinner around 8pm outdoors along the docks at Guy Harvey’s Island Grill, in central Marco Island, FL — wonderful food I might add.
For convenience I’d pocketed my Canon S90 before leaving for dinner and took this photo while sitting at our … Read More
Living in the eastern part of the United States, not too far from the North Carolina coast, it’s not often I have an opportunity to observe and capture beach sunsets over open water. Beach sunrises I can usually see each year, but sunsets are normally behind trees, hills or homes. No doubt it’s just the … Read More
One thing I noticed about the gulf coast beaches at Marco Island, FL, were they had a high concentration of broken/crushed sea shells among the sand. There were spots were it was all sea shells bits. Walking barefooted in these areas was not pleasant and felt like you feet were suffering a thousand tiny cuts.… Read More
Erythrine herbacee , commonly known as the Coral Bean, Cherokee Bean, Red Cardinal or Cardinal Spear is a flowering shrub or small tree found throughout the southeastern United States and northeastern Mexico; it has also been reported from parts of Central America and, as an introduced species, from Pakistan.
The Coral Bean grows taller in … Read More
The title “Moon over Miami” has been well used:
I’ve mentioned “The Fakahatchee Strand” in several of my previous posts.
Fakahatchee means “dark water” in the language of the native people who inhabited this area long ago and Strand is a term for a elongated linear swamp where water flows slowly, in this cast southward into mangrove swamps bordering the Gulf of Mexico. So … Read More
I have to confess I took a leap this week and ordered an Apple iPad. I ordered one of the Wifi + 3G models along with a couple of accessories — iPad Dock, Dock connector to VGA Adapter, Case and Camera Connector.
Currently it’s estimated delivery for next week, May 11-15. We’ll see. … Read More
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. – Heraclitus
I made this photo at Rookery Bay, Florida, because I liked the play of the vertical grass stems and single leafy plant against the wavy softness of the water — … Read More
In my previous post I mentioned two White-Tailed Deer spotted during our drive on the 11 mile, Jane’s Memorial Scenic Dr.:
Two deer were first seen far ahead but as we approached they faded off into the surround wetlands. Slowly inching by where they had been we looked to see signs of them but they
Some of the photo’s I’ll publish this month, or have already published, will come from along the W.J. Janes Memorial Scenic Dr in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, part of the Big Cypress National Preserve, just off Florida State Road 29. I thought a little recap of our experience might be appropriate.
It was … Read More
Tillandsia fasciculata (Stiff-leaved Wild Pine) is a bulky plant that grows equally well in canopy or near the ground. They form protuberances on the host tree that if seen in the tree top may be mistaken for bird or squirrel nests. The leaves are long, slender, tapering, bluish-green often with brownish bands at the base. … Read More
