Florida Everglades

Baby Crocodile in Florida Everglades

Bridge to Chokoloskee, Florida. This area sits just south of Everglades City in Southwest Florida.

Sunset over Chokoloskee Bay, Florida

I shot a 4 hour sunset time-lapse video because on this winter day in South Florida the sky was cloudless. As the sun got below the horizon I noticed a unique color spectrum that is rarely seen in South Florida because of the clouds. Aside from the colors, Venus and Mars were setting right behind the sun. I used a long exposure to bring out the brightness of Venus and to also blur the waves approaching me.

A summer storm over the Florida Everglades. The heat of the Everglades in the summer creates large towering cumulonimbus clouds in the afternoon. These storms then replenish the water in the Everglades.

I took this picture in 2002 in the Florida Everglades of a bunch of cormorants sunning themselves along a lake. Cormorants are swimming birds and as such their feathers get very wet, so they'll sit along the shore and dry off after each swim. If you've ever seen a cormorant try to fly with wet wings, it's quite humorous.
This picture was taken with Fuji Velvia 50 slide film. An ISO of 50 produces very little film grain but you need almost very bright light to get most shots without blur. Any grain you see in the photo is from the archaic slide film scanning process I did back in 2002 and not from the picture itself. For years my color shots were exclusively shot on slide film, which with about 36 pictures to a roll would take me weeks to catalog and scan. It's also been over 10 years since this brand of film was discontinued by Fuji as everyone has shifted to digital.

A flock of ibis flying during sunset.

Distant summer thunderstorm over the Florida Everglades

I drove through this thunderstorm to angle the shot so there was a body of water in front of the storm. After about 20 minutes I was finally able to get a lightning strike just as the storm was moving too far away for any kind of shot.

Long Pine Key, Florida Everglades

The edge of the Shark River Slough in The Florida Everglades this area is a confluence of hardwood hammocks, cypress trees, and freshwater marl prairie. During Spring and Summer this area will fill with water marking a beautiful landscape full of birds, alligators, and deer.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink Launch on September 4th, 2022 as seen from South Florida and the Florida Everglades at night.

Star trails over Florida Everglades