Cayo Costa Island State Park is a barrier island off the Gulf Coast of Florida. In late June, the northern part of the island becomes an ideal spot for photography as the sun reaches its northernmost point, creating spectacular lighting conditions. Niki and I spent an entire month aboard our boat, anchored off the island, waiting for the combination of perfect light and dramatic cloud formations. I love the beauty and power of an approaching storm – as I waited for this shot, we came close to being engulfed by a violent thunderstorm. While all the boats around us headed for cover, we stayed, hoping for the right conditions to take this photo. After capturing the shot, we headed for the safety of the harbor just as the storm broke all around us.
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Cayo Costa Island State Park is a barrier island on the gulf coast of Florida. Cayo Costa Island is one of my favorite places in Florida. During late June the angle of the sun is from its most northern direction, which gives the northern tip of the island great light. In the late afternoon, I set up my camera and waited for good clouds and good light. It seems like, during the summer, the clouds rarely form over the barrier islands along the coast, instead, they build up inland. Every day for a week I waited for clouds to form over the island. Toward the end of the week, I finally got a small storm forming over Charlotte Harbor. The clouds were very dark at the point where the white sand and sky met, which gave a wonderful focal point to the picture. Behind me, there wasn’t a cloud to be seen, so the light was hitting the beach pure and strong.
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Cash Creek got its name because of the “bootlegging” that went on during the prohibition. It is located in the Panhandle and is a tributary of the Apalachicola River.
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The Sarasota Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast invited me to be their first Artist in Residence. I spent two weeks rambling around taking photos of my own desire and also joined them on some trips to some of the properties they have saved. While we were driving around Casey Key looking for photographic opportunities, we received a sprinkling of “sunshine rain” (rain & sunshine at the same time). We knew a rainbow was near and went in search. By the time we found a composition the rain had moved offshore; however, we were lucky enough to capture this rainbow in the distance.
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Very early in the morning, I peeked out the window to see a storm building over Casey Key. Niki and I jumped in the car and headed out to Casey Key just in time to capture the storm along the beach before it broke into rain and the sun was gone. When I finished photographing, I packed my gear and headed up the small incline to the car. Just as we reached the car I noticed this rainbow. I quickly unpacked my gear and took this photograph. It was a spontaneous photograph. I’m glad I was there to capture the scene.
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Cape Romano has many photographic opportunities, but when I heard that the dome houses were no longer on dry land, I had to see it for myself. The houses were built in 1981 on the beach of Cape Romano. They were unique structures at that time. The fact that they are on a remote island makes them seem both futuristic and retro at the same time – and very much out of place. Now that the beach has eroded out from under the houses, they seem even more strange.
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I have always loved photographing mangroves, but it is difficult to get the “feeling” of the rhythm and reach of the mangrove roots. As I cruised along the coast of Cape Romano in my boat, this mangrove seemed to jump out at me. I turned around and headed back to photograph it. The day was windy, and the water was choppy, so I had to wait quite a while before things calmed down enough for me to take this photograph. This is one of my favorite pictures I took during my adventure photographing the Aquatic Preserves of Florida for the PBS documentary.
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On our way to the Sierra Maestra Mountains, I came across this scene. It reminded me of Florida cattle country with one large difference–a backdrop of mountains. As we were driving, the Cubans with us threw their empty water bottles out the window of the car. I finally couldn’t take it any longer and said, “In the United States, you would be fined a lot of money for throwing trash out of your car window.” Our guide replied, “The bottles aren’t trash. Just wait, and when we get to the next town I’ll show you.” When we arrived and he again threw bottles out the window, children and young adults ran to grab them. Our guide said, “The communities need containers for water and other uses. They reuse the bottles.” I thought to myself, “If only Americans would reuse their containers, then our dumps wouldn’t be so full.”
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The canyon looks like a fantasyland with all the formations, called hoodoos, jutting up from the canyon floor. The word “hoodoo” means to bewitch, and that is exactly what it can do if the light is right. With every inch the sun moved, I found new photographic compositions. We hiked a short way down into the canyon, but we didn’t make it very far; after all, we are flat-landers from Florida. We would have had to stay several more days to have had enough time to adjust to the altitude and explore all that we wanted to see.
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Blue Cypress Lake in Central Florida west of Vero Beach, Florida – Many people suggested I photograph Blue Cypress Lake, so I was curious why they found it so striking that they would suggest it was a prospect for good photographs. When we arrived at the lake I was stunned by all of the beautiful photographic opportunities. I spent three days trying to photograph the lake and the cypress trees, but it was always too windy. I decided to get up before the sun and get out on the lake just as the sun was cracking the horizon and, just maybe, there would be not wind. I was only able to take a couple of photographs before the wind kicked up again and there was too much movement for my large format camera.
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