I\'ve been away for a while, dealing with what my son\'s culture calls RWI, \"real world issues\". I\'m most sorry that I have missed so many of the great images from the FM landscapers. I hope to have a bit more time to spend here for at least a little while.
I took a fall color trip but haven\'t processed hardly anything from that, and hardly shot anything until late January. Business has taken me to Florida twice in the last couple of weeks, once to south Florida and once to central Florida. In both cases I was able to add on some time to visit the local scenery. I visited Everglades NP, Big Cypress Natl Preserve and Fakahatchee Strand Preserve in south Florida; and Kissimmee Prairie Preserve SP, Lake Wales Ridge State Forest and Catfish Creek Preserve SP south of Orlando. Though I came away with thousands of images (a lot of birds), this wasn\'t the best landscape trip I\'ve taken and I don\'t expect to unearth anything extraordinary. I don\'t expect to have much processing time in the near future, but here is a selection of what I can offer so far.
(I\'m also experimenting with a new frame style. What do you think?)
The sky was kind of muddy and I didn\'t expect a great sunrise to develop (and it didn\'t), but a layer of ground fog formed right before the sun rise and give a different take on a silhouette through slash pines. From Copeland Prairie in Big Cypress.
My time in central Florida was mostly cloudy with intermittent sprinkles so lighting was disappointing the whole time. But the clouds broke up enough one evening for a fairly nice sunset. This was shot from the grassy bed of a seasonal pond (dry this time of year), which provided a foreground for the pinelands behind. These two were taken about 4 minutes apart; the colors on the clouds developed rapidly and didn\'t last long.
Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
[Wow. While writing this a neighbor\'s tree blew over and sliced through the roof unimpeded, pinning the wife in her bed. It took the FD more than an hour to free her. But miraculously she wasn\'t seriously injured. I think I\'ll post this before anything else happens.]
Dave
Feb 12, 2012 at 03:22 AM
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