Category: Florida

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…


Christmas in the Everglades

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…


A Magenta Sunset in Marineland Florida

I took a little drive to the beach in hopes of capturing a couple of shots. I saw this large rock with several holes in it, and watched how the water was crashing over and around it. I wanted to use the movement of the water to isolate the rock from the rest of the…


Crescent City Florida at Crescent Lake

On the south end of Crescent City, Florida there are two places next to one another that I think make interesting subjects for photography.  Fletcher Park has a beautiful pier that is well known to the locals for fishing.  The pier has been recently renovated, with all the boards on the walkway replaced.  I went…


A day at “Boneyard Beach”

I wanted to find something new and different along the Florida’s coastline.  I have heard many things about how scenic Boneyard Beach was and it being a favorite with photographers.  So I decided to take a ride up there to see for myself.  I woke up early and left home by 4am in hopes of…


Night time at the Castillo de San Marcos

It has been several years since I had photographed the Castillo.  I began last week by photographing from inside the moat looking up at a tree over a couple of benches.  It hadn’t turned out as well as I had hoped at the time but over all it wasn’t a real bad image either.  Last…


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