When it's difficult to get away from home, it's a good idea to look around and find something interesting to photograph where home is!  This is a loblolly bay tree with bloom behind our house  photographed in late afternoon. There had been recent rain though you can't see any drops on the leaves.  (MF Film)

Here's another from the beginning of June I think.  Two palms and a light pole!  (MF Film)

I went to Marineland beach to photograph the coquina rocks, but these little trees and the clouds were more interesting at that time.  Actually, the tall plants are not trees at all, but century plants or agave Americana which can grow to 30 feet at the end of their life cycle. The spiky leaves near their base are also agave plants which will someday get very tall.  (MF Film)

It's fun to revisit old images that kindle nostalgia for places I love and miss a lot.  Here are several of those from Orange County, NY where I lived until moving to Florida in 2013.  They are from 2009 and 2010 in Harriman State Park and beside the Wallkill River.  (The Wallkill is one of a minority of rivers that flow from south to north.)  MF Film

 

I don't mind getting up early, in fact I actually prefer to, but it's been a very long time since I drove to the beach for sun-up which I did today.  There were more people there than I expected, but I shouldn't have been surprised as it was very pleasantly warm and inviting.  (MF Film)

There is muck, and anti-muck. When you step in the former, there's the latter to clean you up a bit. Of course, shoes will be sacrificed, but mud happens!  These two photographs were taken near St. Augustine, and up the coast a few miles from Vilano Beach.  I much preferred the anti-muck!  (MF Film)

Sometimes, when working on a couple of photographs, one or two others may get inadvertently ignored.  This is one of those.  I'm not sure when I took the negative for this, but it was a while ago.  Here it is now, though, and I'm glad I found it.  (MF Film, Deep Yellow #15 filter)

I return to Pumpkin Point quite often.  Low tide reveals acres of oyster beds, and Spanish moss drapes the branches of ancient trees.  (MF Film)

There are fairly typical scenes in Florida that do not involve flamingos.  They often do involve palm trees and retention ponds.  And, clouds!!!  Here are several views that I hope are not cliches..  (MF Film)

f8 and be there is an ancient photographer's adage, but luck matters a lot even when you are there.  And, it was f22 for me plus an orange filter and a polarizer.  (MF Film)

A marsh can be interesting and sometimes beautiful, but as it's a vast plain, it gives the sky a chance to show off!  (MF Film)

Since moving here, it's been easy to find beauty in the ocean and marshes especially when they're augmented by spectacular skies with dramatic clouds.  These photographs, however, are evidence that the path through the forest jungle can be beautiful as well.  (MF Film)

 

Moving away from the coast and the ocean and marshes, the springs in northern Florida are particularly attractive. The water is crystal clear and a constant 72 degrees all year long.  These two photographs are from Ichetucknee Springs which, along with a number of others, feeds the Santa Fe River.   (MF Film)

Fearsome Symmetries!  There are acres of these bare trees near the ocean.  I love their complexity and accidental symmetries.  If the ground were not littered with palmettos, I'd have made many more images here!  (MF Film)

                                                                       Fallen from the sky,
                                                                the little cloud did not sink.
                                                                       Gazing at heaven.

I hadn't been to the St. Johns River with my camera for quite a while. On this trip, I didn't expect much, but as the afternoon progressed, the water got glassy and the sky became interesting.  (MF Film and various filters)

Before I arrived at the site where the two photographs in my previous post were made, I stopped beside the road for this one.  Salt marshes at low tide are really interesting and vary a lot.  The oysters are abundant at all of them!  (P67, 45mm, #15 deep yellow filter on Delta 100)

There are places that are not only interesting and or beautiful, but also subject to continual change.  The Ft George River inlet I've photographed quite a few times is one of them for me.  Time of day, what's in the sky, high or low tide and point of view all make a difference and allow repeated visits.  Yesterday was a twofer at low tide with a dynamic sky.  (MF Film)

As previously written,  I've explored the area around here for about 30 miles north and south many times and feel like I've photographed the obvious parts more than once.  So I am now looking more closely at details as well as finding fresh points of view in familiar places.  Here are three recent examples.  (MF Film)

Revisiting old haunts provokes seeing them in new ways.  Looking more deeply, I'm seeing things I hadn't paid attention to before. Here are several such images.  (MF Film)