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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

I’m working on an assignment for a local government who purchases and manages Environmentally Endangered Lands for preservation in urban areas across South Florida. These environments range from coastal wetlands to inland pine forests, and generally include rare and threatened flora and fauna. It’s been a fun, if not challenging exercise to capture seemingly “ordinary” sights in a manner which will engage the general public in discussion on future preservation and funding through tax revenue. I’m just working through the first two days of shooting, and thought I’d share a few of my favorite images with the good folks here, thanks for looking ;-)

Shot on Sony a1, with Sony FE20mm f1.8, Samyang 45 f1.8 and Sony FE200-600mm

My favorite image so far, sunrise along coastal mangrove forest:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2802a9_57f231bea3654da38a36d3cb05949fe7~mv2.jpg

A slash pine forest recovering from a recent “burn”:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2802a9_3c833c96043944a5ab51dc74fbb686aa~mv2.jpg

I *think* a Red Tail Hawk juvenile among the Pine Forest:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2802a9_6ced2f0c3fcd41adb5cfe46cbee2c209~mv2.jpg

An endangered fern found only in South Florida:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2802a9_b90ea7904945433789d7e45a763ba427~mv2.jpg

A preserved forest tree canopy:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2802a9_97217b3dc21b4038aaa615d8f658f0a0~mv2.jpg

Mar 10, 2022 at 09:16 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

I really enjoyed this set of images and I'm envious of your location

Mar 10, 2022 at 09:37 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

allemania wrote:
I really enjoyed this set of images and I'm envious of your location

I can't imagine many things I'd rather do than explore terrain such as this (with camera gear, of course) and attempt to document its natural glory.

Good luck with your assignment. Hopefully you'll post some more images as you progress.

Thanks so much, really appreciate your comments! And careful what you wish for, the mosquitos and no-seeums were HORRIBLE during the morning seashore shoot

Mar 11, 2022 at 08:28 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Sounds like a fun project. I really like the first photo, nice work.

Mar 11, 2022 at 09:10 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Nice sunstars, which lens?

Mar 11, 2022 at 10:35 AM

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Wow! I'm really digging the second and last photo!
I'm very curious what lens that was shot on.

Mar 11, 2022 at 10:46 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Nice job on the photos and even better job on the cause!

Best of luck!

Mar 11, 2022 at 11:45 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Looks like a great project! I lived in Naples for 6 years and one of my regrets is not focusing more energy on landscape photography while I was there. There are some unique habitats that are very interesting down there... If you're in for an adventure rent a kayak and go down Turner River into the Everglades sometime (in the winter only unless you are heavily protected from mosquitos.)

Mar 11, 2022 at 12:18 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

pjmsj21 wrote:
Nice sunstars, which lens?

Thanks! First pic Sony 20mm f2.8, tree canopy shot with Samyang ;-)

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Alan Parker wrote:
Wow! I'm really digging the second and last photo!
I'm very curious what lens that was shot on.

Thanks so much! Both with Samyang 45mm f1.8 (for Sony) ;-)

Mar 11, 2022 at 12:22 PM

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Brad Williams wrote:
Sounds like a fun project. I really like the first photo, nice work.

Thanks so much!

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liftedspirit wrote:
Nice job on the photos and even better job on the cause!

Best of luck!

Really appreciate the comments, and agree! Thanks!

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40Driggs wrote:
Looks like a great project! I lived in Naples for 6 years and one of my regrets is not focusing more energy on landscape photography while I was there. There are some unique habitats that are very interesting down there... If you're in for an adventure rent a kayak and go down Turner River into the Everglades sometime (in the winter only unless you are heavily protected from mosquitos.)

Awesome, thanks! Me too, I’ve been so focused on wildlife photography that I’ve forgotten how uniquely different and satisfying landscape photography can be!

Mar 11, 2022 at 12:26 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Great gig !!! Nice work !!!

I like capturing Florida native land like the Florida Highwaymen artists.. https://backusmuseum.org/highwaymen

Mar 11, 2022 at 01:05 PM

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SouthFla wrote:
Thanks so much, really appreciate your comments! And careful what you wish for, the mosquitos and no-seeums were HORRIBLE during the morning seashore shoot

The thought of critters you'd encounter had crossed my mind but I got lost in the beauty of the images. Summertime in Oklahoma is notorious for mosquitoes.

By the way, that first image is fantastic. I'm curious - did you use fill flash?

Mar 11, 2022 at 02:58 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

No fill flash, did a bunch of brackets with intention on HDR blending, but the Sony a1 has such great DR I ended up just using a single exposure lowering the highlights and boosting the shadows for the final result

Mar 11, 2022 at 05:56 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Thanks for sharing these these great images @SouthFla. 1,2 and 3 are especially appealing to me.

@IndyFab, Wow! That's an incredible view!

Mar 11, 2022 at 08:11 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Nice set of important work, thanks for sharing. I particularly like the first and last images.

Mar 13, 2022 at 11:16 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

Love that first image! Excellent work!
David

Mar 14, 2022 at 11:13 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Environmental Endangered Lands-A Project

mskb01 wrote:
Thanks for sharing these these great images @SouthFla. 1,2 and 3 are especially appealing to me.

@IndyFab@, Wow! That's an incredible view!

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Ross Martin wrote:
Nice set of important work, thanks for sharing. I particularly like the first and last images.

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Starfire8 wrote:
Love that first image! Excellent work!
David

Thanks folks, really appreciate the kind words!

Mar 15, 2022 at 05:39 PM


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