Notes from the Field
Tricolored Heron in Breeding Plumage
Last month I was in the Big Cypress National Preserve looking for new material forwww.FloridaNaturePhotography.com – particularly birds in breeding plumage when I spotted this amazing tricolored heron on the side of the road. It was in the most resplendent of breeding colors. Bright blue beak and face, deep blood-red eyes, violet and blue-gray plumage, completed with snowy white plumes at the back of its crown. Just gorgeous!
The Most Beautiful Carnivore in Florida
The Apalachicola National Forest is very large and mostly rural tract in North Florida's Panhandle region - an area known for its rich and abundant wildlife, beautiful longleaf pine woodlands, isolated Appalachian/Carolina-region species, and for the botanists...
A Sense of Place
As a working nature photographer, there are two parts of every day that decide my daily schedule when I'm in the field. It isn't when I actually start thinking about work and deciding to call it a day, and it isn't when I arrive to my destination and start/stop...
Sand Dunes of St. Joseph’s Peninsula
Two days ago, I returned from a fantastic photography trip where I finally met up with Terry Collins - another native Floridian landscape photographer who I'd been looking forward to meeting for quite some time. Our goal was to photograph the sand dunes of the St....
Chokoloskee Mangroves
For much of this past month, I've been away from home - traveling almost constantly, and loading up on all kinds of new photographs of my home state of Florida. I've been trying out new and different techniques, a couple new lenses, and keeping company with a number...
Deep Forest Creek
For the past week in the Tallahassee area where I live, it's been wet, gray, often rainy and generally not good for nature photography. In times like these I either stay indoors working on the editing stage of my photography, writing about Florida's natural history,...
Operation Migration – Whooping Cranes Arrive in North Florida!
For the first three days of this week, an event was happening in St. Marks, Florida area that held the riveted attention of birders and other wildlife enthusiasts around the North America. It was Operation Migration's incredible effort in whooping crane conservation,...
The Forgotten Coast “Revisited”
I wanted to do a little follow-up from my last article on "The Forgotten Coast" that was posted last week. I got such a fantastic and hearty response, that I wanted to reply with this quick post for several reasons. Firstly, a big thank you to all the comments, new...
The Forgotten Coast – Unforgettable Florida
For much of the past week, I've been making my way around and throughout a part of the Florida Panhandle that is mostly unfamiliar territory for me and definitely "off the beaten path". Completely rural, shockingly beautiful, loaded with wildlife - and oddly coastal -...
The Winter Wonderland of Florida’s North Gulf Coast
One of the most amazing places for winter nature photography in Florida that I know of is along the northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico where there are no condos, no restaurants, and more importantly there are no people. This wondrous place is the St. Marks National...
Gulf Coast Hidden Secret – Mashes Sands
Once again we find ourselves in hurricane season on the Gulf Coast – and luckily its been quiet – so far. One thing I’ve always been fond of during this time of year is the fantastic cloudscapes at the beach in the evenings. Generally we will have clear skies during...
As Tasty as a Bee
Yesterday (Sept. 7) I was down in Central Florida doing some butterfly and wildflower photography in and around the Withlacoochee State Forest and was lucky enough to get one of those jaw-dropping shots that a wildlife photographer gets once in a blue moon. I was...