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Friday, February 4, 2011
Running Free
I recently spent an afternoon working with Amy in the wilds of Florida. What we lack in mountains and waterfalls we make up for with shallow still water and the possibility of alligators.
Don't you hate it when you forget where you put your clothes? I've dashed around in the swamps looking for mine many a times. Everything looks the same. You know you tucked them behind a cypress tree....but which one.
We try and get down to Florida about twice a year as the wife's sister lives there. I have noticed the lack of height in the terrain as I have moved about the state.
Although the brother-in-law has taken me to Sugarloaf Mountain in Lake County pointing out that it is the highest point(308 feet)in Florida. Actually it's the highest on the peninsula. Britton Hill up near the Alabama border at 344 feet is the highest point in the state.
The lack of mountains is one of the things that we here in the midwest share with you down there. They don't call us flatlanders for nothing. We do have some waterfalls and some will pose quite nicely for you as Dave shows us on occasion.
I do get some what miffed when in the magazines when landscape photography is shown it is almost always out west. As if that's all that's worthy.
In the current Outdoor Photographer there is an article about a Montana landscape photographer. He mentions the big sky of the west and how the sky has influenced his images.
It see that in Florida also. The sky seems different than here at home. Like your top image the sky can become a large part of the feeling of an image. One of my favorite landscape photographers is Florida's very own Clyde Butcher. Now there's a guy that can suck you into a photograph with the sky.
Amy is a beautiful woman and I hope to see more of her.
2 comments:
Don't you hate it when you forget where you put your clothes?
I've dashed around in the swamps looking for mine many a times. Everything looks the same. You know you tucked them behind a cypress tree....but which one.
We try and get down to Florida about twice a year as the wife's sister lives there. I have noticed the lack of height in the terrain as I have moved about the state.
Although the brother-in-law has taken me to Sugarloaf Mountain in Lake County pointing out that it is the highest point(308 feet)in Florida. Actually it's the highest on the peninsula. Britton Hill up near the Alabama border at 344 feet is the highest point in the state.
The lack of mountains is one of the things that we here in the midwest share with you down there. They don't call us flatlanders for nothing. We do have some waterfalls and some will pose quite nicely for you as Dave shows us on occasion.
I do get some what miffed when in the magazines when landscape photography is shown it is almost always out west. As if that's all that's worthy.
In the current Outdoor Photographer there is an article about a Montana landscape photographer. He mentions the big sky of the west and how the sky has influenced his images.
It see that in Florida also. The sky seems different than here at home. Like your top image the sky can become a large part of the feeling of an image. One of my favorite landscape photographers is Florida's very own Clyde Butcher. Now there's a guy that can suck you into a photograph with the sky.
Amy is a beautiful woman and I hope to see more of her.
D.L. Wood
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