One more from yesterday.

 Back to Washington Oaks SP again today!  The clouds alone were worth the trip. Here are three from the day.

 In the perpetual quest for fresh subjects, I hiked a long way on the sand at Washington Oaks SP where there are extensive coquina rocks.  I'm also a sucker for snow fences or, in Florida, dune fences!

Back to Little Talbot Island SP again. A great sky that led to some rain a little bit after these were taken. I was lucky!

Cloudscapes here are almost too easy at this time of year.  When the tide is out, and the water is calm and reflective the entire scene can be magnificent. Here are two from today, August 31st.

 

 

 During this pandemic, the ocean beach is sort of off limits.  I'm spending time  away from it now in places I've visited and photographed before. 

 

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 Back to Dutton Island Preserve. The sky was just irresistible as it is so often at this time of year here. 

This must be THE season for spectacular skies!  Pretty much every afternoon the clouds build and billow often resulting in rain.  Among nice cloud days, this was an especially nice one.

 The clouds, that were minimal at first, gradually gathered in strength and numbers.  Within less than an hour after I had made these photographs, there was a torrential storm with lightning, thunder and blinding rain. I could not decide among the  path to the beach images which I liked best, so here are two of them. 

 In the way back machine again, these from Orange County, NY in 2011.  Incidentally, Blogspot has changed the way photographs can be presented by allowing extremely flexible sizing rather than the previous S, M, L and XL options. From here forward, the images I post will be better suited to the space available than they had been.

Backyard Fence (MF Film)

 

Storms threatened all of the time I was photogarphing yesterday, but held off until I had finished the last frame of the second roll of film. Here's some of what I photographed.

Yesterday, 7/15 near Pumpkin Point. (MF Film)

Four live trees and one tall stump with clouds.

The ocean is very, very rarely calm. Inland, though, it's a lot more likely.  I was really happy to find this today.

It's a recent imperative for me to find worthwhile subjects away from the ocean and beach.  I have made so many of those images that it's more and more difficult to not be repetitive. The three photographs below are also repetitive, but less so than ocean and beach. They are of Pumpkin Point and two feature Spanish Moss that I simply cannot get enough of! (Hey, I'm a Yankee...ya know!)

For years I've avoided photographing in the later afternoon for several reasons. But, in doing so, I've missed some wonderful afternoon light and the accumulation of clouds that usually occurs then. Yesterday I broke that pattern and spent some worthwhile time at Dutton Island Preserve. Here are two from that trip.

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: