I hadn't been to the Saint Johns River for quite some time, so I went today. There is a town dock and the Walter Jones Memorial Park that offer really nice photographic possibilities. Here are some I took this afternoon.

As often as I've photographed what interested me at Cedar Point, I've restricted myself to just a particular part.  Today, though, I walked a good distance away from there, and made some photographs in an area new to me. Here are several of today's images. 

At last, some new photographs of an old familiar place! I will add to this post, but just now here are the first three from today!

Here are two more...I love these trees!!

Staying home because of the weather these past two months has prompted the notion that it might be good to do a series of photographs taken right here. As the images accumulate, I anticipate that I'll begin to recognize a theme that will apply.  Here are two to start.  

I think these will be the last of this August's backyard photographs. The intense heat has abated a bit, and I have some other places I want to visit with my camera. Here are two final Angel Trumpet images and one of the moon through the trees. 

One more of the Angel Trumpet plant behind the house.  It's interesting that I deliberately took this through the screen on the lanai.  I had hoped it would be just a bit softer that way, but it still looks sharp to me. 

 Thistle have to do for now!  Another two from our backyard. 

It's still too hot to go anywhere to photograph and the daily afternoon rainstorms are not making it a good idea either.  So, here again, are three from the backyard.  

It has been wicked hot both here and nationally so far this month.  I found there was some film in one of my cameras and, as I have no interest in going anywhere to photograph in this weather, I finished the roll in our backyard without going anywhere else. Here are two from the roll:

 

I had a lousy day with equipment this week...of all things, my tripod head broke, and one of the tripod's legs lost its shoe. Nonetheless, I finished a roll of 6x6 negatives of which these two are worth posting here.

Returning to places I've photographed before, I continue to find variations that are worthy of being re-photographed.  Here are some from Cedar Point that are just a few of the many I've taken there over the years.

And now for something completely different: COLOR!  These are photographs I made in Autumn of 2000 at a pond near my Croton-on-Hudson, NY apartment. I used Fuji Velvia and never had them printed, but they're easy to scan and present here twenty-four years later!  ;)))

I've recently come across some negatives I made in the late 1970s in Maine.  I taught cello, chamber music and conducted the younger orchestra at the New England Music Camp at that time. We had Mondays off and many of us went to the coast which was always fun...especially the opportunity to eat steamers and lobstah with a pitcher of beer!  Here are several photographs from Pemaquid Point, the rocks below the lighthouse, and a small island off shore. 

At one end of Big Talbot SP is a lagoon that I've not visited for a few years. I just went back and made these which are a bit different than any I've made there before. 

I finally made it to Black Rock/Boneyard Beach which was not at all crowded thank goodness. Here are three photographs from today's visit.

I was so eager to make some photographs on Sunday, May 19th, that I utterly ignored the fact that, 1, it was a Sunday when everyone is free, and 2. that the public schools here had just finished for the year. So...my destination was unavailable as every single parking spot was taken and then some.  So I turned around and stopped a little way back from where I had been to a little spot that was utterly deserted. I've photographed here before, but these three are a bit different.