It’s been awhile since I’ve been to Viera Wetlands, or actually since I’ve done any bird photography at all – so yesterday (8/28/10) I visited with the Photography Interest Group to see what’s going on.
Archive of posts filed under the Florida category.
Reminders
A short post today with two reminders. 1. I updated the blog’s table of contents again. If you haven’t looked at it, please do. In the TOC, I list the places I’ve blogged about along with links to the blog entry and the image gallery. It also has a collection of links to other resources [...]
Ponce Inlet, Florida – Lighthouse and night photos
Imagine if you will, a perfect dusk scene with sunset colors drifting up from beyond the horizon. In the distance is a photogenic lighthouse that’s illuminated just enough to highlight it against the horizon. Beneath your feet, slow moving Atlantic Ocean surf rolls up on rocks. You spot a bird in the surf and hope that it will be still while your shutter remains open for the seconds necessary to record the image as your mind’s eye sees it – tack sharp from foreground rocks all the way to the distant lighthouse, with silky smooth water reflecting light from the dusk sky. Imagine coming home and seeing the image that you imagined on your computer screen in all it’s glory. This imaginary trip can be made real for you too if you venture over to Ponce Inlet, Florida and have a little bit of luck, like we did.
Photo Location Block
I’ve been by this place several times. Each time I see it, I think that there must be one or more great photographs lurking about. All I have to do is find them and push the shutter.
There’s more than birds in St. Augustine
But you shouldn’t visit St. Augustine just to watch the birds – it has many other photogenic settings. In this post, I’ll show you a few that you should consider seeing.
Make use of wide angle lens perspective
Of course, wide angle lenses take in a wide field of view. They also have a larger depth of field when compared to normal or telephoto lenses. And, they are also very good at helping you vary the perspective of your image. What’s perspective? The relative scale of nearby and distant features. This is what I want to talk about today.
Gaylord Palms, Orlando
Lynn and I spent a couple of nights at the Gaylord Palms Resort last weekend. This very nice hotel is located in the Kissimmee area, near the Disney parks. It has several great restaurants and a huge atrium divided into four sections modeled after different areas of Florida. There are also two outdoor swimming pools, one for kids and one that’s adults only. It made for a nice weekend and also provided quite a bit of photographic interest.
Alligator Farm Spoonbill Chicks Take Off!
I’m fortunate to live close to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Bird Rookery and I was able to visit four times recently. This was the first year that Roseate Spoonbills have nested there and the farthest north that they have been recorded nesting. In this post, I’ll show you a sequence of photographs made over about six weeks of the two easily seen Spoonbill nests at the Rookery.
PIG Tales 1
How do you make photos at night?
One member of our club has a trip planned to Yosemite. He (let’s call him “Donuts”) wants to do something a little different and make photos after dark. Do you need special equipment? What settings do you use? How do you focus when you can’t see anything?
Ravine Gardens State Park
I had never heard of Ravine Gardens State Park until Lynn mentioned it to me after reading about it in our Florida guidebook in the St. Augustine section. This 59 acre park is about 35 miles south west of St. Augustine in Palatka, Florida and about 90 miles north east of the Orlando area.
