Siesta Key, Sarasota, Florida

Playing with a macro lens in the house before the football starts!

Two keys the same from my stash of keys.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone!!

The #MacroMondays theme for 5/19 is #keys. This is a key chain designed to be a keepsake or souvenir. This was my runner up choice for MM

Longboat Key besteht aus einer Insel, welche die Sarasota Bay vom offenen Golf von Mexiko abtrennt. Im Südosten grenzt die Stadt an Sarasota und im Nordwesten an Bradenton Beach. Die Stadt liegt rund 80 km südlich von Tampa. Wikipedia

The lichens on these stones are hundreds of years old. Photo taken at Stonehenge.

I probably have mentioned a group on Facebook called 52Frames. Each week a photographic challenge is given and last week it was high key and this was my entry. Imagine my surprise when it was chosen for the 52 picks. The 52 picks are chosen by a committee made up of pros and amateurs that changes out every so often to keep things as fair as possible. Photos are chosen from all the entries, and I'm not sure but I think something like 3-4,000 each week. Only the second time in 3 years that this has happened for me so it's more rare than the Explore! My Granddaughter named the tree Seahorse because in the summer when it has it's leaves the shape looks very much like a seahorse! LOL Hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful weekend!

The endangered Key deer is the smallest subspecies of the North American white-tailed deer. They are the only large herbivore in the Florida Keys and can be found in every habitat, where they feed on dozens of native plant species. Despite the absence of predators, Key deer retain the characteristic behavior of raising their tails when alarmed, revealing the white fur underneath. Competing males joust for females during the rut by locking horns. Breeding occurs in the fall; with the majority of white–spotted fawns born in the late spring and summer months.

Poaching and habitat loss had reduced the number of Key deer to only a few dozen animals by the 1950’s, but establishment of the Refuge and subsequent listing of the deer as endangered in 1967 has allowed for protection and a dramatic recovery of the species. The deer now number close to a thousand, and are most concentrated on Big Pine and No Name Keys, where an estimated 75% of the population lives. This high density of deer and proximity to homes and roads results in motor vehicle collisions, especially at night when the deer are more active.

Human interactions with deer such as illegal feeding have conditioned many deer to approach humans, leading to unhealthy conditions.

That perfect Sunset moment with a ball of sun, reflecting on the water and a simple sail boat silhouetted on the horizon.

Key player of the band known as Arthur Moon

Taken at the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory, by Ron.

Macro Mondays Low key Micro Nikkor 55mm f2.8 at f22 P9100322

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Took one of the later morning captures and went into the B&W realm with it.

Southernmost Beach Café

Vacation time, 05/01/2023, Key West, FL

Apple iPhone 7 Plus

iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 3.99mm f/1.8

ƒ/1.8 4.0 mm 1/6000 20

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Crazy Thuesday 7.1.2025 "Childhood memories"

I made this in the age of around 12, 60 years ago, as a christmas present for my parents. It's now in use be me.

Macro Mondays Key

Key West Florida.

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Sloppy Joes Bar

This is a key ring that my wife bought from a shop called Smiggle which is in our town called Horsham.

It's design suited this weeks theme of "Multicolour" so I removed it from my wife's car keys and set up for a photo.

This was a capture taken with the CPL filter to see the details under the water ... pretty water there in the Florida Keys. This capture taken from the Sunset Grille where we had "Linner" in the middle of the afternoon was pretty iconic of the sights ... the colors there on the buildings and homes are a nice contrast to the water color.

Vintage luggage key

The fantastic view from Key Summit.

Just a close-up of piano keys, but I liked the light.

From about three years ago.

on the northern point of Ship Cove. Still intact are gun emplacement number two, the magazines, and the range finder station.

Key System articulated Bridge Car 177 (Bethlehem Steel 1937) running @ Oakland, Ca.

Kodachrome my collection, photographer unknown. (Jan. 1957)*

Keys have been the thorn in my flesh this week. I finally gave up the search and decided to get new keys ...3 door keys and one expensive Ford key, all worked okay except the front door...after 5 Kiosk failures I finally found a locksmith and first key failed but the next was perfect.

Found this connected to an older house.

A High Key of my first camera, Olympus Trip 35! I fondly remember waiting for Boots the Chemist to process my film and then excitedly opening the paper wallet containing my prints. Of course in my early days of photography most were either over or under exposed and many appeared to capture my hand or a finger and sometimes a thumb and even a shot or two of the ground :)

A High Key of a camera taken with another camera in natural sunlight against white using a piece of foil loft insulation as a reflector:

Cannon PowerShot SX 430 IS

f/5.6

1/1000 sec

30 mm

ISO 100

Dedicated to RHC (ILYWAMHASAM)

HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday 😄

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Key Falls is near the DuPont State Forest area outside of Brevard, NC. It is strictly a rain fed waterfall so there is only a flow after very heavy rainfalls. Luckily, we've been having those heavy rains the past two weeks. So I had a quick break one morning and took off to check it out. Lucky for me it was flowing fairly well.

The area around the falls is very tight and not all that appealing so compositions are very limited. I normally like to create a larger view of the surroundings but in this case that just wasn't possible. But it is still a very beauty waterfall.

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Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door. - Paulo Coelho

Red-necked grebes in high keys on a local pond in Alaska.

Key Falls, Brevard, North Carolina

Macro Mondays

Key hole

When on a workshop, each night I review the next day's proposed photography location and consider all the details and the latest weather forecast. On this particular evening we were in Te Anau and the forecast for Fiordland was for strong North West winds and heavy rain. Our objective for sunrise was Key Summit, which from Te Anau meant a 3am departure. With a forecast like that you would be forgiven for choosing not to go. I reviewed the forecast closely and especially the speed of the incoming weather and the weather maps. Having many years experience in New Zealand's mountains meant I had some idea of how the weather developed, but of course no one has a crystal ball. I said to the group that rather than stay in bed we should roll the dice and try our luck. We awoke to calm conditions, as we approached the start of the Routeburn track it was still dark but I could see we were in cloud. As we walk along the track our head lamps picked up the tiny droplets of water in the air, it was strangely calm. Shortly before we reached the turnoff to Key Summit the air cleared and we could see stars above. I knew we had climbed above the low cloud and I had a sense this was going to be one of those magic mornings in the mountains...

#routeburn #mountaspiringnationalpark #newzealand #darranmountains #panorama #keysummit

For Saturday Self Challenge

Key West’s feral chickens trace their roots to 1800s settlers from Cuba and the Caribbean. Once kept for food and cockfighting, they were set free after Florida banned cockfighting in 1986. As backyard poultry faded with the rise of supermarkets, the chickens stayed—and now roam the island, with hundreds of cock-a-doodle-doos greeting each day.

Irony is not Dead

While roosters strut, crow, and steal the spotlight, hens are just as numerous—quietly nesting in the background, likely in someone’s hibiscus bush. Chickens don’t really “couple up.” A rooster may romance several hens, but it’s the ladies who do all the work—laying the eggs, incubating them, and raising the chicks. Roosters mostly just shout about it. They don’t help with parenting, though they might chase off a cat or two. And while Key West is overflowing with free-range chickens, there wasn’t a single egg in my grocery store today. Go figure.