Very old Cypress tree in Florida.

This is my first swamp sparrow photograph.

Viewed by naturalists and other scientists as one of the best outdoor laboratories in the world, this vast swamp, a national wildlife refuge, is nearly 113,00 acres (45729 hectares) in size.

Our first American president, George Washington, was an early surveyor of this landform.

Thank you all for your visits, favs and comments. I greatly appreciate it and enjoy reading every one!

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About an hour south of Hua Hin, Thailand in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park. Can only imagine what this scene would look like with the lilies in bloom.

Thanks for stopping by my friends. :) Have a great week ahead!

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More stormy weather down our way, beats me how the Porthcawl Lighthouse survives this constant battering.

Also, thought I'd mention that there is in fact three lighthouses in this picture, that's correct, three and I'm not going mad! If you follow the far horizon to its furthest right you can just make out the two Nash Point towers.

51°28'24.40"N 3°42'4.51"W

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 850mm, f/9, 1/640, ISO 2000, Sigma TC-1401. View Large.

Teublitzer Weihergebiet an einem Nebelmorgen .....

The swamp is an interesting area in Dumbarton with diverse wildlife.

DARK SWAMP BLUES on the Dobro Duolian • “EXIT 2020”

- Justin Johnson

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Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 3600. View Large.

Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in southwest Florida is a very unique place, conserving several different biomes in one conserved area. This is the swamp, with the butressed trunks of relatively young Bald Cypress standing in the water.

Each year that my wife and I visit Corkscrew it seems that another of the 100-year old cypresses sadly is lost to the latest large hurricane.

I've had a lot of luck this year photographing swamp sparrows. This guy landed on a great spot and stayed there long enough for me to get several shots. I wish every bird were as cooperative!

This photographer was spotted during the early hours on that misty morning on Caddo Lake.

His presence added proper scale to the size of the Bald Cypress trees found there.

Hope everyone's Spring has sprung nicely & y'all are doing just fine......

Happy Sunday !

Thanks for dropping by and taking a look.

The Prothonotary Warbler. A stunning bird that navigates and lives in the swamp. Very lucky to have finally seen and photographed one recently. Only for a few moments while passing through!

I thought this was "Swamp Milkweed", but my neighbor Katherine corrected me. It's actually called Purpletop Vervain or Verbena bonariensis! (It was in her garden!}

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/500, ISO 2500. View Large.

Here's an image from my last trip to Texas to shoot the Cypress Swamp. The sky was pretty ugly white in this image, so I tried the new Adobe sky replacement. It's like magic and it dramatically improved the image. I have so much to be thankful for and feel very luck. Lots to look forward to including seeing and spending time with friends and sharing our modern style of friendship with those I only know on social media. Happy Thanksgiving.

I found this small canyon inside Bryce Canyon National Park.

This sweet swamp scene was somewhere down a dirt road after McCutcheon’s Falls and before Kingston, no GPS on my camera so no way to be sure where its location is. Unlocated but like most of my life’s small but great visual offerings I come on them by happenstance though some would say things are put in our path to teach us. Whether by chance or not it is our choice that determines whether we stop to take in the scene and see the beauty in the everyday or we continue to see through the blinders of our own making that keep us focused on the unimportant.

I took this on Sept 27th, 2021 with my D850 and Tamron 24-70 f2.8 G2 Lens at 24mm, 0.8s, f5.6 ISO 64 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,and DXO Nik

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

Taxi : Here

ᴵᴺᶠᴼ ( We hope to see you all in the Foggy Swamp during the next 2 months, to have a great time exploring and enjoy the scenery as we tried to do our best in giving you a special Halloween feeling! )

Eastern long-necked turtle

It had its head just poking out of the water. With a tweak to the contrast, the photo came alive.

Same individual as yesterday in a more classic profile. A well adapted bird... Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, West Alton, Missouri

Anahauc NWR, Texas-1503

These sparrows are winter residents in Missouri, and can be found in large numbers at regional wetlands around St Louis. They like to keep a low profile when possible, but will frequently pop up among the brown reeds. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, West Alton, Missouri

Swamp Lilies are abundant in late summer at Corkscrew Swamp, but this one was blooming in February. According to Sanctuary literature, "white-tailed deer will search this plant out for a tasty snack."

Head up and singing its heart out :)

Perched on a cattail stem from last year.

My region is a land of swamps. Sometimes it may be attractive.

An HDR pano, taken right before the sunrise, when it's wet, cool and lovely in its own way.

Thank you for all the comments and faves, my friends. Going to be very busy next 2 weeks.

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Another Swampie from my trip a couple weeks ago. Confluence State Park, Missouri

Tamarac NWR, Minnesota

Caught between the plant stems, I like the background on this shot. Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton, Missouri

A marshy swamp in the mountains? I know, crazy right? This sits at around 3,800ft in elevation between Clay and Macon County in Western North Carolina. I had considered doing a big impressive sunset over the swamp here, but found this composition by the lakeside as the light was waning a bit. So I scuttled my plans to try and get some decent light shooting from the road and hunkered down on the soft wet ground shooting across the swamp into this mountain top in the distance. Found this log in the foreground, unfortunately I ignored my own advice and didn't bend this sapling back and it sits prominently in the bottom right. Otherwise I enjoy this shot, the colors, contrast, light reflections.

ISO: 160

Aperture: f4

SS: 1/125

Focal: 33mm

A K&F CPL to help brighten the blues in the sky, cut through the reflections a bit.. This is a focus stack of 42 images.

Deep woods of Bergslagen .

Olympus digital camera

Parker's Laundry Basket

The need to be creative weighed against obligations can sometimes feel overwhelming. But I love blogging. So I wanted to show how I sometimes feel but also be creative at the same time.

A B&W Louisiana Swamp Scene

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Queen Anne's County MD

Swamp Creek Basin showing the classic U-shaped glacial carved valley as viewed from the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in the North Cascades, Washington State. At the far left in the distance is Black Peak. Next is Mount Hardy, Golden Horn, and Tower Mountain.

spring 2016