Category: photography

  • SQUARES – Perspective – Elephant Booty

    SQUARES – Perspective – Elephant Booty

    Is this my good side? Check us out in black and white on Cee’s Black & White Challenge – Backs of Things from earlier this week. We can be found in person at the Jacksonville Zoo. Day 29 – Squares – Perspective Click the panel below to visit Becky’s site and the July Squares Photo…

  • SQUARES – Perspective – Crowded?

    SQUARES – Perspective – Crowded?

    I took this photo several years ago at a Heart Walk fundraising event in Tampa, Florida. Quite the turnout, but are we seeing this today? In most places, no! While the riots are still going on, yes! The sad part about this perspective is no one needed to worry about wearing a mask, keeping their…

  • SQUARES – Perspective – Boat Docks

    SQUARES – Perspective – Boat Docks

    Storm moving in and the Gulf of Mexico is beginning to get churned up. Some of these older docks don’t always withstand hurricanes, but they often get rebuilt until the next time. It is really nice to be standing out there feeling the breeze on your face, smelling the impending rain heading your way. Day…

  • SQUARES – Perspective – Florida Palm Trees

    SQUARES – Perspective – Florida Palm Trees

    Sun is beginning to set stationed just behind the left palm tree over an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers, Florida a few years ago. This is paradise! Until a hurricane comes around. Enjoy it while you can because it will look totally different during a tropical storm or hurricane. Take the…

  • CEE’S BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE – Backs of Things

    CEE’S BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE – Backs of Things

    We had Flat Stanley for 2 weeks and took him on all sorts of adventures. c.2006. “Flat Stanley” is a children’s book by Jeff Brown that began as a bedtime story for his sons which recounts the adventures of Stanley Lambchop after he is squashed flat by a bulletin board while sleeping. It was originally…

  • SQUARES – Perspective – Ponce Lighthouse

    SQUARES – Perspective – Ponce Lighthouse

    Ponce de Leon Lighthouse is the tallest in Florida at 175 feet (53.34 meters) high and the second tallest in the United States behind the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina. It is equipped with a Third Order Fresnel lens and shines out 17 nautical miles (32 kilometers or 20 miles).

  • SQUARES – Perspective – FOTD – Chrysanthemum

    SQUARES – Perspective – FOTD – Chrysanthemum

    This gorgeous sweet smelling mum (the flower) was part of a bouquet at my mom’s funeral 6 years ago, but I found this photo while scouring through my archives and thought how pretty! I find the layers of this flower show the perspective of the living organism within.

  • Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Black & White – Sepia

    Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Black & White – Sepia

    Week #7 challenge is Any bird (your choice) in black & white or sepia tone. Post as many or little as you choose. Have fun with your settings, filters or get creative in Photoshop. Leave a splash a color if you would like as long as the majority is black and white.

  • Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #6

    Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #6

    Week #6 WOODPECKERS | SAPSUCKERS | FLICKERS Next week #7 is any bird (your choice) in black & white or sepia tone.

  • SQUARES – Perspective – Fort Matanzas

    SQUARES – Perspective – Fort Matanzas

    Work started on the tower in the fall of 1740 by the Spanish to guard the Matanzas Inlet which was at the mouth of the Matanzas River and could provide a backdoor to the City Of St. Augustine. St. Augustine’s primary defense system was centered around Castillo de San Marcos, the main fort in the…