Sometimes I find a beautiful specimen in nature that I simply just can’t identify. Tonight I finally identified a beautiful red mushroom I photographed five years ago in Fakahatchee Strand of Southwest Florida’s Western Everglades. I knew immediately it was an Amanita, but which one? I had no idea. I have a bookshelf of field [ Read More ]
Vultures: nature’s clean-up crew, scavengers, the nastiest animals alive – whatever you want to call them, they are essential in the promoting health and well-being in nature. They eat the dead, and thus prevent the diseases and harmful germs of rotting and decomposing flesh from getting transmitted to the living. The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) [ Read More ]
Tonight I had a bit of a fan-boy moment. A week ago a friend on Facebook let me know that Art Wolfe was going to be doing a presentation in Tacoma, Washington and there was nothing that was going to keep me from going to see that! The presentation was about a series of dog [ Read More ]
Short post for today. Sometimes we make a couple of mistakes in making a photograph, but see so much in it that we still like that we decide to try do a little digital magic to flush out what it was that we like and cover up the mistake(s). ~ click to enlarge ~ That [ Read More ]
When people think of Southern Florida, they rarely think of lonely mile after mile of endless cow fields and citrus groves, or the acres upon acres of sugarcane that would resemble the enormous cornfields found in the Midwest if it weren’t for the sweltering heat. Most of the land here is used for agriculture, but [ Read More ]
This is pretty cool. Last year I was contacted by the Florida Department of Forestry about a project they were doing in the Ocala National Forest. It seemed they were making some new trails and wanted to add some informative signs and markers along the way to help and inform hikers and visitors as to [ Read More ]
Sometimes I get into the groove writing a blog post and in no time it gets too big and long to fit into my preferred blog size (400 words max). This is when I chop it up and make it into a shot & sweet few paragraphs, add the image and hit “publish”. I thought [ Read More ]
Here’s a quick post I’ve been meaning to write for a while (before the big move) but never seemed to have a chance to write it until now. All across the social media spectrum I’ve been explaining myself until my typing fingers can’t take it anymore. Here it is in one place, and I’ll try [ Read More ]
Recently I made a trip down to the South Florida to one of the best places to see the real Everglades: the Shark River Valley. This is essentially the living and beating heart of the Everglades, and is only accessible by airboat, touristy tram ride, on bicycle on the same tram road, or on foot. I [ Read More ]
Anyone who has ever tried to walk through mangroves – never mind with a backpack full of photography gear and holding a camera – knows that it is not easy. Twisted above-ground roots and protruding rhizomes make any travel slightly faster than not moving at all. Estuarine mud sucks at boots and shoes, and none of [ Read More ]
