Returning from DC this past week, I drove through Shenandoah NP on Skyline Drive. I stopped often to make these photogaphs.

Despite it being Thanksgiving day, I got to spend a little time out with my camera.  I was hoping for some photographs in the city (Jacksonville, Florida), but the light was absolutely no good for what I was hoping to do, so I compensated with a photograph of the Treaty Oak, and then my favorite shrimpboat berth with shrimpboat.  (MF  Film)

At Little Talbot Island SP again, I loved finding these last Friday..  (MF Film)

As often as I've visited Little Talbot Island SP to make photographs, I can't remember ever being disappointed.  These four are from the very southernmost part of the beach and are not indicative of the gorgeous stretches of 'clean' sand that are so appealing to those who spend time here.  (MF Film)

 

Here are two more from the area where I photographed the wood fence below.  I was uncertain about including the graveyard headstones, but decided they belonged and shouldn't be ignored. (MF Film)

Our annual trip to the mountains in north Georgia was again in the general area of Blue Ridge.  Here are a few photographs from the week including one from Burt's Farm which I photographed last year.  The pumpkin display is extensive and features orange and white ones.  (MF Film)

Here are two photographs I rather like.  One is from many years ago at Pemaquid Point on the Maine coast.  The other, taken recently, is also of rocks, but in Florida at the mouth of the Fort George River.  Both were taken with the same camera, a Pentax 67 but more than thirty years apart. That camera is still the one I use almost exclusively. 

I'm trying to stay away from the shore where it's all too easy to find interesting subjects.  So, I went for a very long walk on a bike path a few hundred yards inland and found this.  (MF Film)

Most of the trees at Washington Oaks State Park are live oaks.  I recently read that they were much prized by ship builders because of their often complex curves.  These photographs were made in the gardens which are beautifully maintained.  (MF Film)

Returning to the present day, here are two photographs from Marineland Beach.  There was a strong breeze and a tempestuous sky that was a fine complement to the raucous surf.   (MF Film)

Here are three from 2012 taken in the Warwick Valley of 'upstate' New York near where I used to live. I think this is an orchard, but I'm not sure what kind.  The trees are too tall and straight to be apples which leaves me utterly uncertain of what they are.  They were gorgeous in their April raiment, though!  (MF Film)

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More oldies!  From my summers in Maine teaching at the New England Music Camp came this view of the lighthouse at Pemaquid Point.  We often went there on our one day off from teaching, and always stopped in New Harbor to eat lobstah with a mug of beah!  The other is of the moon at perigee over the Hudson River at Peekskill. Good times!  (MF Film)

Sorting through some pages of negatives from years past, I discovered some from 2001 that were taken at Watkins Glen, NY.  I seem to recall reading that some Tarzan movies were made in Watkins and/or one of the other glens in that region.  It's fun to see these almost 20 years later.  (MF Film)

Here are three more from the Talbot Islands State Parks within the last two days.  (MF Film)

The first two of these three photographs must seem unremarkable until you realize the fences go over little hills!  And why is that noteworthy?  Because this is northeast Florida and if you feel the need to climb something you need to go to a mall and take the stairs to the second or third floor.  The air at the end of September here is finally much more pleasant, and I was not at all too warm schlepping a mile or two with my photo backpack and tripod. There was a good stiff breeze too, and a roiling,  windblown surf.  (MF Film)

Here are three more from yesterday's (Friday the 13th) shoot.  Who says that date is unlucky anyway!!   (MF Film)

Scouting for subjects to photograph, I usually find myself driving north to the Talbot Island SPs and surrounding area. Today, though, I drove south to the area near Marineland.  Before getting quite that far, I came to the mouth of the Matanzas River where it empties into the ocean.  I have to remind myself to go there more often as there's much drama in the sea and sky when the Atlantic Ocean has been or is getting to be busy. (MF Film)