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I just returned from a three day trip camping in the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia. The swamp is almost 500,000 acres which makes it the largest black water swamp in North America. The water is clear but black from the peat.
This shot was taken from a flat river boat we rented for the day so we could boat several miles into the swamp. I was blessed with a nice sky...... it did not last long and pretty much the remainder of the trip it was cloudy.
I just got back from a vacation to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. What an amazing place, full of interesting lifeforms and landscapes! Many images to follow. For now, here are 3 from different times of the day. Many photos taken from a canoe...(This one was taken on the east side of the Refuge.)
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Image from a couple years ago when I went camping in the Okefenokee Swamp. Well, I wasn't actually in the swamp....... well except when I took this shot. Oh well, you get the idea. It's cold in the ATL this week so I thought I would post a shot from warm weather.
Camera: Olympus OM10 50mm 1.8
Film: Kodak Vision3 500T @ ISO 800
Dev: Unicolor Powder C41 kit.
Scan Epson V550
My sketchbook went on a boat tour of the Okefenokee Swamp. We saw lots of alligators, blue herons, cypresses and Spanish moss, but didn't pause long enough for me to think of trying to draw them. The guide did stop the boat on a wet "prairie" for a good long time so we could watch a beautiful sunset. Then we cruised back under a darkening sky, the water as reflective as liquid mercury.
Drawn and colored with pencils on location. Brushed with water later to make the water-soluble color more intense for scanning.
Drawn March 17, 2018
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Folkston, Georgia, USA
Shot this with my iphone because I didnt wanna change lenses. This is from the Trembling Earth nature trail at Stephen Foster State Park, in the Okefenokee Swamp.
Sketched at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge while waiting for our sunset boat tour to begin. Sorry there are no alligators in this sketch.
I can't resist the opportunity to throw in the quote "We have met the enemy, and he is us." That's from Pogo, the Okefenokee Swamp's most famous fictional resident and the titular character in a midcentury comic strip by Walt Kelly. It also aptly describes what it's like to take a road trip with a car full of tired nearest and dearest, leaving Atlanta after work on a Friday evening and arriving in Waycross after midnight. The motel was not very good, but at that point, who cares?
Drawn March 17, 2018
Folkston, Georgia, USA
I just got back from a vacation to the Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. What an amazing place, full of interesting lifeforms and landscapes! Many images to follow. For now, here are 3 from different times of the day. Many photos taken from a canoe...(This image was taken at the edge of the Refuge, near the cabin where I was staying.)
Near Folkston, Georgia
30.729061, -82.137450
January 21, 2018
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This mother Alligator was very tolerant of visitors and would allow very close approach unless one of her youngsters gave a distress call and then she would advance.
Scanning some older 35mm prints
This was taken at the Okefenokee swamp. If you look closely you will see there are several alligators sunning themselves on the little island to the left.
The sound of barred owls echo through as darkness sets in. Alligators begin their nightly hunts. Snakes crawl in search of prey. Frogs start the evening chorus. Night time in the swamps is anything but quiet time.
Okefenokee NWR
Zale perculta
This moth is only found in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia. The caterpillar feeds on Climbing Fetterbush (Pieris phillyreifolia)
Old River Trail in Milton Florida
Heading out into the "Grand Prairie" in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near Folkston, Georgia, in early May 2015.
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mrk II
Lens: Tamron 70-300mm
Post-Processing:
- Lightroom 6/CC
- HDR Merge in LR
- OnOne Perfect Effects:
- Sunshine:Sunglow
- Vignette-Subtle
Driving from Lake City, Florida, up to Waycross, Georgia.
The next day it was still raining, and it rained all day. Normal people would have stayed indoors.
But no ... we drove up to Georgia, to the Okefenokee Swamp.
A gator is one of the many species living in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Wildlife species include wading birds, ducks, alligators and other reptiles, a variety of amphibians, bobcats, raptors, white-tailed deer, black bears, and songbirds. With its varied habitats, the Okefenokee has become an area known for its abundance of plants and animals with 621 species of plants growing in the swamp.