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Last weekend in Flordia...but...
It's going to be 66º here today, spring comes early in the south...I'm going outside...
Well, I had a pretty cool little video slip to post as a teaser to an event we are about to load in tomorrow, but had a bit of technical workage on the upload. Hope to post soon, but for now......enjoy the serenity of this little scene I was luck to see!
More soon on the New Years Party madness that soon will unfold in my neck of the woods!
Female whale sharks are thought to mature at approximately 30 feet total length, but there is still much we don’t know about the maturity and reproductive biology of whale sharks.
Photo by Linda Murphy
This ambitious guy had caught a large fish when this wave came rolling up behind him. He went completely under. Came up just fine after, albeit without the fish.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Mar 20, 2015.
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I'm spending the winter months of 2014-2015 in a warm spot on the beach in Indialantic, FL (if I have Internet access, it doesn't matter too much where I'm physically located).
While most of my photos have been taken at sunrise, on the eastern side of the long island/sand-bar that runs from Cape Canaveral down to Port St. Lucie, I thought I should take at least one batch of sunset shots.
So I drove about 20 miles south, down to the Sebastian Inlet State Park, and found a long spit of land that reached out into the Indian River, facing due west.
I mounted my camera on a tripod, and took about 20 3-shot HDR compositions as the sun dropped down to the horizon.
As I waited for the sun to drop lower, so that I could take more shots, I looked around the area to see if there was anything else that I could photograph with my second camera -- a half-frame Sony RX10 camera.
Lots of birds: egrets, pelicans, opsrey, sandpipers, seagulls, terns, and a bunch more than I couldn't even recognize.
These are the ones that I thought were most interesting...
So often, many a great photographer has set out for the golden hour. Those warm and wonderful precious few moments of light have often found this photographer without a great location! Every once in a while however, these two come together in luminescent harmony. (Geez, did that sound stupid!) Sometimes its a crapshoot. You prep the gear, load up, and headout...or if your slightly insane, you do this in the morning. I must say, I do love starting the day this way...it's just a bit hard to actually get started. Yeah, my sunset shots far outnumber those sunrise ones, thats for sure! (Again, quite a lame sentence there.....)
Anyway, while bumbling about the coast here one afternoon in Florida, was quite lucky to be as they say "at the right place at the right time!"
Another classic compositional tool is to frame the subject within the image. Use this technique to tell your story.
Unfortunately the clouds and moonlight did not provide the full effect of the star trails I'd hoped for but it was still a beautiful night to be out shooting
The Ruins. After a couple of hurricanes we had to take the old place down and rebuild it from the ground up. This is the one part of the house I left alone. I love seeing the river from between these big open spaces and have used the ruin for many photographs. The new building is almost complete, but this wall I left as is.
Right whale Catalog #3450 and calf off Lighthouse Point Park near Ponce Inlet on Feb. 1, 2016.
Photo Taken: Feb. 1, 2016
Photo Credit (full credit required for use):
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA research permit #15488.
Right whale Catalog #3450 and calf are visible in the distance behind the fishing pier. The pair were last sighted heading northeast away from Sebastian Inlet on the afternoon of Feb. 9, 2016 after spending about a day and half inside the inlet.
Photo Taken: Feb. 9, 2016
Photo Credit (full credit required for use):
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)