Getting away from the beach is good for me right now.  My photographic imagination is a bit stale so I'm forcing myself inland, even just in my backyard.  The bike path photograph is from Big Talbot Island SP;  the Angel Trumpet flower image is from the backyard last evening at dusk.

I returned to Little Talbot Island State Park again today to make a few more photographs including two of rather high dunes. It's rare in this part of Florida to find anything that isn't fairly flat, but surprisingly there are some dunes that qualify as quite elevated.  The other photograph is an odd looking tree relic with about ten legs!

More views of the beach at Little Talbot Island SP.

Returning to Little Talbot Island SP today, I hiked a trail through the forest that I'd not been on before. It was a two mile slog to the beach in sultry, mosquito filled air, but I enjoyed it a lot anyway. Here is a view of the forest path, and a few more beach scenes.

As often as I've visited Little Talbot Island State Park, I have rarely gone north up the beach. It's a very long walk, but it's rewarding visually as there are so many beached and bleached trees to photograph.  Here are three:

It may sound ridiculous, but I'm somewhat bored with making photographs at the ocean. I've made so many I need time away in a different environment so I can return to the sea visually refreshed. One thing that's particularly nice here is there are several beautiful parks that are free and easy to access. The one I visited today is a very extensive salt marsh called Castaway Island. Here are three photographs I made there today.

Getting out now is a big relief though I'm doing it by myself. I've seen no one at all anywhere near me, so I'm sure I've been safe. Here are a few from these adventures.

Three from Big Talbot Island SP

As we are now required to 'shelter in place', and I can't go to my favorite haunts to photograph, I've been scanning old work from NY.  These three are from 2006 taken in Minnewaska SP on the Shawangunk Ridge (locally referred to as "the Gunks").  I schlepped a 4x5 monorail view camera up the 'mountain' which was one reason I later bought a more compact 4x5 field camera that was easier to schlepp!

In this period of social distancing, it's nice to be able to return to places I love to see where few people gather (although there were lots and lots of fishermen off in their boats). These two images are of such a place...Cedar Point...that I've photographed several times before.  As always in nature, though, so many elements change daily that the photographs are always different. 

And still more from the archives even further back in time...2000.

 

Here's another from the archives...an orchard near Kingston, NY I photographed in 2002 using Konica Infrared film.  That film is less extreme than the Kodak version. I don't think either is still available.

Revisiting old photographs is fun, and I enjoyed posting them here, but I was finally able to get out yesterday and make some new ones.  These are from Dutton Island Preserve which I haven't visited for several years. I was glad I did!

From the archives of 2005, two photographs of ruins beside the stream in Beacon, NY.  These are both gone, now, replaced by new condos and such.  (4x5 Film)

Odd how appealing it is to return many times to a place that's been photographically rich.  Little Talbot Island State Park (Florida) is one of those places for me. The light and the ocean are ALWAYS different! These are from a roll of film I exposed on Sunday, February 23rd.

Sometimes the light is rather flat, and the sky is also fairly dull.  However, the ocean refuses to have a boring day, and leaves rhythmic tide pools as the tide recedes.
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It's been a long while since I visited this part of the St. Johns River.  Here are two photographs from there...one from the shore, and the other from a dock.

Here are more images from yesterday's (January 24th) traverse of Huguenot Park.

I returned to Huguenot Park today because the clouds and sky were photographically very promising. Here are two from today's efforts.  More will be posted soon.

For those of you who visit this blog from Australia, I want you to know I mourn the devastation and loss of animal life you are experiencing. You are in my heart, and I send whatever will travel through the ether in sympathy and caring.  Despite pervasive news coverage of our domestic situation, your plight is not being ignored and is being reported on more often now.  <3 p="">