Fort De Soto Park, Tierre Verde Florida
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We're leaving early tomorrow morning for traveling north, this side of the Canadian border....the osprey is giving the direction;)
Enjoy your week Flickr friends, thanks for stopping by....see you soon!.....Pat...xo
It's hard to get close enough to these birds for a decent shot. I was just lucky here. This one is holding and eating a fish.
What an amazing lady....I watched her walk the entire length of Ft.Desoto Beach all the way up and all the way back!
"Do something everyday that maintains your good health" (from "Life's Little Instruction Book")
"Do more than is expected"
"And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." Matthew
Hope you all are off to a great start this week! Enjoy! Enjoy! : )
Taken this morning just after sunrise, had a Fantastic Day at Ft DeSoto.
Ft DeSoto Park,Florida
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I was in the right place at the right time (I know a little something about birds) ;) This snowy offered me a wonderful opportunity, and I took it. Manually focused.
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Fort De Soto County Park, Tierra Verde, FL
This is the view from the top of the battery at Fort De Soto looking at the beach just north of the fishing pier. Our weather forecast called for rain all day....
Tampa Bay, Florida. A huge fire sparked by lightning burns out of control on Egmont Key, a beautiful island at the mouth of Tampa Bay. Three vertical image "pano" using a 50mm Nikkor lens.
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Dark Morph, Reddish Egret
Doing some crazy dancing thing with the white morph just outside of the frame
Can you believe this!...whoa...I was out at Ft.Desoto and this was the afterglow of the sun setting. Right before our very eyes this sight gradually unfolded in the sky. Everyone who was on the beach just stood still...we were in awe. ~Check this out on black : ) ~
As I was in the process of posting this picture this one song was pouring through my mind and here is IL DIVO to sing it:
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If you pray..."Let prayer be the "Key" of the day and the "Bolt" of the night."
Have a great weekend! And I am planning on it myself! You all are awesome!
Ft DeSoto
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Finally got some decent shots of the Infamous Whtie Morph at Ft DeSoto.
I think that there are people who take photographs, and there are people who like taking photographs, and people who love taking photographs, and then there are people like me, people who must take photographs because it's all they want to do and because it's all they can do, because it is what they wake up thinking about in the morning and what they think about as they fall asleep.
I used my on-camera flash to light the foreground. Few beach scenes are complete without seagulls, but they are very easy to lure.
This Great Blue Heron looks so cool against that blue sky. I just love the neck position it takes as it relaxes.
Taken 14 April 2019 at Ft. Desoto, Florida.
I really don't do sunrises, and don't often get a chance to be at the right place around sunset, so this is afternoon lighting, but I think the somewhat harsh lighting worked well. It accentuated the form of the egret. Sunrise and sunset shots add great color and softer lighting, but tend to flatten the perspective sometimes.
From Ft De Soto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida. Just happened to be in the right place at the right time to catch this kiteboarder with the Sunshine Skyway in the background as she hit the apex of her jump.
Florida is a very stormy place in July. It's very photogenic though. I broke a couple rules here, but rules are best broken. I think the lack of a significant foreground helps to convey the feeling of vastness and our own relative smallness. At least, I hope it does.
I didn't like this shot initially as I had been hoping to capture more activity, but I looked at it the other day with a different mindset.
I spent about half an hour stalking this Reddish Egret, jockeying for position while we both waded around the inlet, trying to keep the light at the right angle and the background attractive. Every time he did something interesting, he would have his back to me. I finally got this pic just as he flew off. Nice shot of him, but not a very good background at all. Oh, well, tomorrow is another day. I'll be back! I will not be denied!
;-)
Taken this morning just after sunrise, had a Fantastic Day at Ft DeSoto.
Ft DeSoto Park,Florida
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It looks like Fay won't be a big deal. Yesterday at this time the projection was for a cat 1 hurricane to make landfall very near Land O' Lakes, but now it looks like it will hit Florida far south of me, and weaken considerably before it gets up my way. That's good. I hate sitting in the dark without electricity for days.
Going through the archives. I intentionally waited until late afternoon to stalk this heron. I discovered that although the warm lighting looks great on many birds, I don't especially like what it does to the colors of the tri-colored heron, or at least, I didn't get the dramatic results I anticipated, and so I put it aside. I like it more now, but next time I'll try a shot closer to sunset, or earlier in the day for true color.