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Sadly we couldn't stay as the Mosquitos had just hatched and were all around in unbelievable amounts. Someday we will try again in the Fall.

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While at Great Dismal Swamp, I met two photographers who talked cameras with me. The British gentleman quizzed me about my iPhone and once satisfied that it was set to RAW, the American gave Don directions to Merchants Millpond State Park. A mere thirty miles away in North Carolina, it had our kind of campground. Underused, secluded, heavily wooded, with campsites widely spaced apart. And best of all, Lassiter - a swampier swamp than Dismal.

Olympus digital camera

Alligator moving out in the swamp below the boardwalk at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, FL.

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'RoidWeek -- Day # 1

Lensless Camera Company 4x5 pinhole camera; Fuji FP-100C45 instant film.

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Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina.

The last resting place of Gideon Grove who was shot as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot.....

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The Barataria Preserve in Louisiana consists of over 20,000 acres of bayous, swamps, marshes, and forests that contain alligators, nutrias, spiders (lots of spiders) and over 300 species of birds. Boardwalks and dirt trails wind through the preserve, and the waterways can be explored by canoe or kayak.

This image was digitally painted in Corel Painter from an iPhone photo taken during a visit to the Preserve.

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A water lily shines in a dirty swamp pond with its hazy surround and morning light!

Attwater NWR, Terxas-1702

very light pink

Common Gallinule

Some huge feet

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/1250, f/8, ISO 560.

Botanical garden at the Ruhr university in Bochum.

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A very dramatised over the top view of the swamp land at Sturt Point.

Tamarac NWR, Minnesota

I went looking for this hidden lake at sunset and it took me some time to find it but it was worth it.

Southern Finland

North-South Lake, NY

Tri-colored heron

Trenton, NC

Taken @ Black Bayou Pose by lily lovelace

Peering out of the reeds... Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton, Missouri

Another beautiful location in Louisiana

Long Island, NY

Dark macropod, found along the East coast of Australia. Photographed, trying to avoid mosquitos in the lush grasses and ferns in Rhyll, Phillip Island.

This swamp is either in Florida or in Mississippi. I don't remember. I found the photo in my "to do" folder.