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Photographed in Key Biscayne, Florida
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You gotta love dog action shots, especially if you shoot a protagonist like Sam! This capture was perhaps my first choice of the series when I downloaded the images to my computer. It is just in line with the action photo I wanted to obtain from the shoot. I believe it still is my favorite one. If not, it is a close second to another capture not published so far. We'll see...
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Today is a day when 30 minutes of solitude would be so intoxicating! I took my youngest to Wynwood for our own little art walk. Saying he wasn't interested is an understatement.
Oh - and I love this tree. A great tree to climb and watch the sun come down. In solitude.
Happy Friday flickr friends!
With a wingspan that can be up to six & a half feet across and a body length up to 54 inches long, the Great Blue Heron is the largest heron in North America. Commonly seen near shores.
Lapin , rabbit
Crandon Park, Floride
Bon ma conjointe a trouver un lapin dans le parc, il a l'air d'un chat lol,
des gens sont venus porter leurs lapins dans le parc, un homme viens les nourrir a tous les jours, mais il nous a dit qu'ils ne vivraient pas longtemps, cause des oiseaux de proies et les crocodiles
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, FL
Hope everyone had a great start to the new year. Here's another oldie, this one from 2 months ago when we got the chance to shoot sunrise at Bill Baggs.
Photographed in Key Biscayne - off Miami, Florida
The beautiful colors display yesterday, shortly after a totally uneventful sunset, lasted perhaps somewhere between 5 and 7 minutes. Good thing that clouds haven't disappeared yet, as they do down here with cold weather. We really haven't had a cold-front roll in so far. I'm sure condition will change pretty soon - and they should! In the meantime we are experiencing almost summer-like weather with temperatures in the 80's during the day. Totally weird, especially for a Christmas day. Global warming?
This image resulted from a 7-capture composite processed as HDR and finished with layers work in CS6.
Merry Christmas to all!
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Crandon Park, Floride
Pas le plus avantager par la beauté, mais un canard tout de même sympa
La belle chaleur du mois de février nous incite a profiter beaucoup plus de la plage
The Cape Florida Light is a lighthouse on Cape Florida at the south end of Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The current structure was constructed in 1847, and it guided mariners off the Florida Reef which starts near Key Biscayne and extends southward a few miles offshore of the Florida Keys. It was operated by staff, with interruptions, until 1878, when it was replaced by the Fowey Rocks lighthouse. The lighthouse was put back into use in 1978 by the U.S. Coast Guard to mark the Florida Channel, the deepest natural channel into Biscayne Bay. They decommissioned it in 1990.
Within the Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park since 1966, the lighthouse was relit in 1996. It is owned and operated by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
The construction contract called for a 65-foot-tall (20 m) tower with walls of solid brick, five feet thick at the bottom tapering to two feet thick at the top. It was later found that the contractor had scrimped on materials and built hollow walls. The first keeper of the lighthouse was Captain John Dubose, who served for more than ten years. In 1835 a major hurricane struck the island, damaging the lighthouse and the keeper's house, and flooding the island under three feet of water.
n 1846 a contract was let to rebuild the lighthouse and the keeper's dwelling. The contractor was permitted to reuse the old bricks from the original tower and house. New bricks were also sent from Massachusetts. The contract went to the low bidder at US$7,995. The lighthouse was completed and re-lit in April 1847. It was equipped with 17 Argand lamps, each with 21-inch (530 mm) reflectors. The new keeper was Reason Duke, who had lived with his family on the Miami River before he moved to Key West because of the Second Seminole War. In Key West his daughter Elizabeth had married James Dubose, son of John Dubose, the first keeper.
In an 1855 renovation, the tower was raised to 95 feet (29 m), to extend the reach of the light beyond the offshore reefs. That year the original lamp and lens system was replaced by a second-order Fresnel lens brought to Cape Florida by Lt. Col. George Meade of the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. The heightened tower with its new, more powerful light, was re-lit in March 1856.
Simeon Frow became the keeper in 1859. Confederate sympathizers destroyed the lighthouse lamp and lens in 1861 during the American Civil War. The light was repaired in 1866, and Temple Pent was re-appointed keeper. He was replaced in 1868 by John Frow, son of Simeon Frow.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Florida_Light
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