I took this a while ago, but never processed it. It's a place I've been to quite often and usually found something worthwhile to photograph. It's called Dutton Island Preserve and has nothing to do with the TV show, Yelllowstone! ;)

 

Here are a couple of images I made several years ago, but didn't prepare - now referred to as post processing - to be viewed.  They're from Big Talbot Island SP.

 

The forests in this part of Florida are often wonderful assemblages of interesting trees. Today's images are of such a forest at Big Talbot Island State Park.

I love to return to Cedar Point and did so today - Memorial Day! It seems a national holiday brings out scores of fishermen whose trucks and boat trailers had filled the parking area. I managed to avoid them in these photographs except for a couple of boats with several men aboard waiting to use the little dock. Here are a few of today's images.

I had every intention of experimenting with long exposures at the beach today, but I forgot to set the shutter speed to Bulb so it would stay open for the allotted time in seconds. Every single frame that was supposed to be a long exposure was so completely under exposed that those frames were clear...i.e. blank! But, I knew better than to not include a few 'normal' exposures in case the others were not what I'd hoped....which was exactly the case! These were the only 'keepers'. 

One of my favorite places in this area is the enormous corporate park called Deerwood.  Near the YMCA gym there is a lake where I often walk. Today, I brought my camera and made these photographs.

 

 

I tried to make a ten second exposure with a variable ND filter, but I'm not satisfied with the result...too much guesswork that needed to be more exact. But, after making those exposures, I used the rest of the roll more conventionally and these two images were the ones I liked. 

 

Back again to Alimacani Park where I've done a bunch of photography lately. Here's today's catch.

The Fort George Inlet has been a fertile place for photographs over the years...some facing the ocean and others facing inland. As the tide recedes, sand bars on the inland side of the bridge are revealed in the most interesting patterns. Here are several views of them!

I've not been back to Big Talbot Island SP for a while so I decided to go for a walk there with my camera a few days ago. Here are three photographs from that trip. 

Finding these oldies is fun! The ones in this post are from 1994 and include one from Bear Mountain SP of the bridge there, one from an upstate NY farm, and three from the Finger Lakes region of upstate NY. I was told that that area was used for some very early Tarzan movies, but I'm a much later vintage, and cannot verify that! ;)))

Here are three more from 2002. These were taken in Awosting Reserve which is  part of Minnewaska State Park in NY.  It couldn't be more antithetical to Florida terrain and conditions, and I really do miss it! 

I've been meaning to look at negatives I made a long time ago, and today I did. There are quite a few more to look at, but I chose these three to begin. I'm not sure where the marsh was, but I must have found it interesting enough to photograph.  Of the several shots I made, I chose this. Where I photographed the ice, snow and dark water with stick is also not recorded, nor is the side of the tree. They were all in a protective negative sheet from 2002. 

I often return to Kingsley Plantation which is very well run by the National Park Service. It's a rich resource for all who want to learn a bit of what life was like on a Sea Island Plantation that raised cotton and indigo among other things. I especially value the bookstore that offers a variety of factual items without having to acknowledge the censorship currently in evidence here in Florida. Does it make one uncomfortable to be informed about life for enslaved Africans??  Bloody damn right it does as it absolutely should.  Two of these images are of the waterway that served to transport the plantations produce, and the other is of what may have been a witness tree at that time. 

 Just for silly:  The Old Man And The Tree!

I was looking forward to the journey south to Florida that would take me through Shenandoah NP.  However, I was really disappointed at the light during my drive through it...just clear, and cloudless. Nevertheless, here are five images that I sorta like. These were it for this trip.