Odd for a day in this part of Florida to be completely overcast without any detail in the sky. Still, I wanted to use my camera, and I knew where there might be at least a somewhat interesting subject. So, these two photographs were made in the same spot with the camera pointing in different directions. (MF Film)
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Saturday, December 2, 2017
I guess the beach where I walk almost every day is the logical place for me to make an extensive series of photographs. But, since I don't usually carry my backpack with photo gear, tripod, and medium format camera (Pentax 67) when walking, I have to sacrifice a day every now and then to do that. This is a group of images I've made in the last several days.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Friday, November 24, 2017
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
I've been somewhat visually exhausted back here in Florida since our visit 'home' to the northeast. But, during the last two days, I've made a concerted effort to revisit some of my favorite places to photograph. These images are the fruit of that quest. The first two are from Big Talbot Island SP on a blustery day that chilled me to the core. The other two are from Anastasia SP in St. Augustine. I suspect the former site became richer in skeletal trees resting on the sand, and the latter site a lot poorer with the deterioration of dunes due to our recent hurricane. (MF Film, #15 filter)
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Sometimes the most interesting thing on a given day is in one's own backyard. Our neighbor keeps a Meyer lemon tree just beside our driveway, and always invites us to help ourselves to the fruit. Meyer lemons were introduced to this country from China in 1908 by Frank Meyer, an employee of the US Department of Agriculture. A Meyer lemon is a cross between a true lemon and another citrus fruit (either a regular or Mandarin orange). They're larger than common lemons, a bit less tart, and apparently rather hardy. Here are three views. (MF Film)
Friday, October 27, 2017
Considering how much film I brought with me and exposed last week, I would have thought there'd be more to show for it. But, quantity has little to do with what gets culled for quality. I'm actually rather lucky to be happy with what I've posted. Here are two more that were made somewhere in North Carolina or Tennessee (I didn't know which state I was in a lot of the time) on our trip south through the Smokies.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Saturday, September 23, 2017
As often as I return to locations I really like, I'm surprised that I still manage to see new things there. I've photographed at Pumpkin Point a lot at low tide and high. Today the water wasn't that interesting, and the sky resisted being dramatic, but I still liked at least these two subjects. (MF film)
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
I walk about 2+ miles on the beach at least four days a week. It's easiest at low (or at least lower) tide when there's more soft sand available. All summer, I had to make my way through legions of sun worshipers lying on the sand working on their melanomas, or bobbing about in the surf. Then, to my surprise, school started in the third week of August and there were a lot fewer people. Finally, Labor Day arrived...the unofficial end of the summer for a lot of people... and the beach was nearly deserted even in the middle of the day. These two photographs chronicle the relative solitude I've been able to enjoy since Tuesday morning, September 5th! (MF Film, deep yellow filter)
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
It's inevitable that sooner or later one wants to expand photographic sites and include new subjects. So it was with me when I heard from a friend about Banks Lake National Wildlife Sanctuary. It's a mother lode of cypress trees, Spanish moss, and water. It was a long schlep to reach the place in Georgia (made longer by my having gotten lost), but it turned out to be very worthwhile. Here are two images from that trip. (MF Film, #15 deep yellow filter)
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
I think I've been to most of the accessible photo sites in this immediate areas that I know about at least once. Still, there are paths and approaches that I'm discovering now for the first time. This photograph was taken along one of them. It is nearly overgrown, and on the morning I walked there, it was really hot, humid and buggy. When I came to the clearing where I put the camera for this photograph there was a light but very welcome breeze and I was happy to linger a little while.
(MF film, 105mm, #15 deep yellow filter)
(MF film, 105mm, #15 deep yellow filter)
Friday, July 28, 2017
Though I live in Florida...the South...I will always consider myself a Yankee. Slavery is just not a heritage anyone other than the most abominable racist would celebrate. Industries of all kinds were manned by slaves and I can never seem to forget that. The photographs below were made at the Bulow Plantation Ruins State Park. The building pictured was where sugar cane was processed and refined into molasses and granular sugar. It was destroyed in 1836 by rebelling Seminoles and never rebuilt. (MF Film, Deep Yellow #15 filter, 55mm lens)
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
The geological history of Florida is the story of the erosion and
replenishment of shifting sand as the state is really just a huge, ancient sand bar. An inevitable part of that erosion and shift is
the demise of trees, some quite old, that probably intended to live much
longer than they did. So the trees you find lying on the sand lived
quite nearby and met their end locally. Here is a photograph of rather young trees that will topple on the beach relatively
soon. (P67, 135mm lens, Delta 100 film)
Monday, July 3, 2017
It's a really good thing to discover a 'new' place to make photographs even when that place is part of a familiar site. This image was made at Big Talbot Island SP after a really long walk with my gear in a rather heavy backpack. It amused me that two girls were taking scores of pictures of each other with their phones. I admit that I'm a dinosaur! (Film...NOT a phone!)
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Monday, June 12, 2017
I keep coming back to some of the photographs I made during my return trip from New York and DC to Jacksonville. I don't know why I overlooked this one, but I now like it well enough to post. The winter views without leaves are the most revealing, and I was lucky to be making my trip during that period. (MF Film)
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Generally, I tend to select no more than one or two negatives from a developed roll of film to scan or print. And that can be way too generous sometimes! (I can't imagine what I'd do if I used a digital camera...so many more images to sort through with about the same number of keepers!) So, here's an image I've decided was worth a second look after having skipped over it the first time through. It's again a scene from the Kingsley Plantation on the Fort George River. (MF Film)
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