Category: Black and White

A Beautiful Sunrise Over Crescent Lake, Crescent City, Florida

Capturing a beautiful sunrise with a drone This morning’s sunrise over Crescent Lake was captured using a DJI Mavic Mini 2.  Some of the best places to be to shoot a sunrise or sunset in the state of Florida will be over a lake.  Florida has more than 30,000 lakes so as you can imagine,…


Cedar Key’s Iconic Shack

For a period of time I made several trips over to Cedar Key just to photograph the locally famous ‘Honeymoon Shack’ or ‘Honeymoon Cottage’, as some of the locals call it. The stilt house was built in 1959 by Henry Taylor for Phillip and Margaret Thomas of Gainesville. The house was severely damaged in 1985…


One Day Trip to South Florida

For landscape photography, the images that stand out are the ones that have dramatic skies. Unless you are wanting to photograph the milky way at night, images that have a clear sky are usually boring. I went to the Everglades yesterday morning in hopes of better weather.  I left Monday night and arrived at Pine…


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