Thursday, March 24, 2016

I haven't been using my 45mm (very wide angle) lens recently as I didn't have a red filter for it.  I used a less wide angle lens instead until two days ago when I finally got the 25A filter I've been wanting.  These two photographs were taken from the walkway on  a bridge on  Route A1A with that lens and filter.    (Film)






Sunday, March 20, 2016

I began this blog in 2008.  During the years since, it's been my favorite forum for sharing the photographs I make.  But, according to Google Analytics, there are very, very few daily visits. I also post to facebook.  Every photograph I send to that site is typically viewed twenty or more times, often with comments.  Obviously, in terms of my 'graphs being seen,, it's a much more gratifying venue. So, facebook will be my principal forum for the likely future.  But, I will continue to post here from time to time.  My fb posts are always open to 'public', so if you're interested, join me there.

For the moment, though, I want to share a group of images from a site near my former NY home.  It's called 'Round Lake', and it is just that...a round lake with an island in the middle.  I made these over a period of years.  Most have already been shared here, but never in the way they would be on a website....as a group.  So...here is series I made during my last decade in NY.  (All film)















Friday, March 11, 2016

To my great surprise, northeast, coastal Florida has almost no naturally occurring rocks.  The closest things to them are coquina, but they are not strictly stones...rather, they are aggregates of tiny limestone shells.  So, these photographs of the jetty at Vilano Beach employ imported boulders from who knows where.  (Film)







Thursday, March 10, 2016

A friend in New York once mentioned how lucky I was to have found some big, puffy clouds to include in a photograph I had made there.  The mountains, forests, reflective lakes, foggy mornings, and golden afternoons often made whatever was in the sky an afterthought.  But, in Florida, there's not as much else to embrace.  The skies are the great compensation!  When I look through my portfolio of Florida photographs, the majority of worthy ones rely on a dramatic sky. So, even though the clouds here are rather simple, they aligned themselves nicely for these two images.  (Film)




Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Hoary, gnarled old coot
knows to slough his long dead leaves.
Impatient for spring.

(I am learning that, in Florida, certain trees hold their dead leaves during the winter, and drop them about now with new growth to follow quickly.)