Category: Florida

This Week in the Everglades National Park

02/06/2019
Florida

I left this past Sunday to spend a couple of days in south Florida, mainly the Everglades National Park.  I arrived early Monday morning, and after taking a nap for a few hours I woke up to a thick dense fog.  I decided not to shoot that morning but to explore some of the areas…

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Film Capture at Marineland

02/03/2019
BeachesFloridaTwilight

For almost 2 years now, I have been shooting my Canon 5D Mark IV almost exclusively with the exception of maybe twice. To be honest, I really do prefer the results that I get from my old film cameras over digital. Both camera types have their strengths and weaknesses but I think my preference is…

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Rough Surf at Marineland

01/31/2019
BeachesFlorida

I went to St. Augustine to drop off a few images to be printed.  While I was there I decided to drive down to Marineland to photograph the beach.  To be honest I really wasn’t very happy with the color rendition of these images, and I am contemplating on converting one of them to a…

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The Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse

01/21/2019
FloridaNight Photography
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The Lunar Eclipse of January 20-21, 2019 Ideally, the best location to photograph the moon would be when it is somewhat close to the horizon.  Since the lunar eclipse is occurring around midnight, the moon was high in the sky making it impossible to include a landscape.  However, this doesn’t prevent me from photographing it. …

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One Day Trip to South Florida

01/09/2019
Black and WhiteFloridaNight Photography
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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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Christmas in the Everglades

12/27/2018
FloridaSunsetTwilight

I just got back from spending a couple days in the Everglades National Park. The trip hadn’t been planned very well, in fact not at all and that’s because it was something I had decided to do on the spur of the moment.  I had taken an unplanned vacation this week from my regular job…

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