Photographing in the rain can be a challenge when schlepping a camera on a tripod while holding an umbrella over myself and the gear.  But, I thought it would be a worthwhile break from my usual regimen. Here are two of today's 'graphs! 

Castaway Island Preserve is a vast salt water marshland  I visited several years ago, but haven't been back to until today. Despite a lot of walking I only took a few photographs. The several worth keeping are below. These would have been okay subjects for color, but I prefer monochrome so that's what I used. 

Since I haven't been able to do much travel to new areas recently, I'm grateful there's often worthwhile variety in places I've photographed before around here. These are from today in the Sisters Creek area.

Here are six photographs I made today that revisit Cedar Point.  There were no fishermen, nor any other people which was unusual.  The water was calm and the light was even with a light overcast. 

The lone tree image at the bottom is important to me because the property it sits on has just been sold, and I have no idea whether the new owner will keep it. It is of no particular use other than as a place to tack up the sign for BAIT which used to hang there. The other two photographs are just nice views in places I have often visited and photographed previously. 

I finally had a chance to do some photography yesterday albeit in the middle of a bright, clear, cloudless afternoon. That can be visually very boring. However, I thought of an alternative place to go where the sky would not need to be included and the design of the grounded subject would be sufficient to make a photograph. Here are three from a roll of twelve...25% isn't as minimal as one might think! 

This is a phone graph of the view from the fifth floor of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. It's the most attractive and extensive hospital campus I've ever seen encompassing far more than what's in this image. I am NOT a patient there, either, by the way! 

Here is a photograph I took six years ago while awaiting a solar eclipse. I was at Jacksonville beach and the sky was just gorgeous! I had posted it on Facebook, and it showed up again as a memory. I don't usually make color photographs, but this was taken with my phone which did a really good job!

Looking in a box of old photographic prints, I came across this that I made sometime in the early  1970s. It's the window of a gallery on the upper east side of Manhattan. I was walking to Central Park on a weekend day with my camera and saw it which surprised me quite a bit!  I've looked for the gallery based on its facade on Google Maps Street View, but had no luck so far. 

It's a challenge to find worthwhile photographic subjects in general sometimes, but in one's own yard? These two photographs are of my immediate neighbor's palm trees that often shed fronds and bark onto my driveway, so in a way, they are kinda in my yard! LOL!

August in Florida is usually really hot and humid, but this year it's been especially so. Nonetheless, I persisted (hehe), and made these photographs yesterday, August 11th. The sky was dramatic enough to feel I was not wasting film or my time. 

 

Because road construction made access to this area impossible for at least two years, I've not been able to return. Not much has changed, but the two year absence has rekindled my interest in it. Here are five photographs I made today when access was restored. 

Now I'm just gon' sit, at the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh yeah
Sittin' on the dock of the bay

 Otis Redding 

 

Returning to Florida after a trip to New York,  I chose a route that went through Pennsylvania and then turned south rather than deal with I 95.  I stopped several times in Pennsylvania and Maryland to make photographs, and this was one from that trip in early April. 

Sometimes, the best stuff is in one's own backyard! This is a loblolly bay tree with blooms and buds.

And here it is a day later:

 

I parked my car in a different part of the lot at the YMCA where I use the excellent gym, and this scene was directly in front of the car.  On that day, I did not have my camera, but came back two days later with  it and was able to access the same view. 

Deerwood Corporate Park is one of my favorite places to walk!  There are no palm trees (which I generally loathe anyway), but many, many live oaks and other deciduous trees. There are also several lakes that I enjoy viewing from their shores.  These photographs are from one of them.