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Myakka State Park (Florida) in 720nm Infrared

This is a small finger off the Myakka River in Florida. Word was alligators like to hang out in this shallow merky waters. I ran into a park ranger here and she said that there were quite a few about a mile up stream. But as you can see by the under growth in this image that going much farther...

A family of Black-crowned Night Herons: (my favorite of the Heron family) Hard to believe "ugly duckling" turns into such a beautiful bird:

Myakka River State Park EOS-R / Full Spectrum / 665nm Drop-in Filter

...on Landscape Photography magazine's website. Not the biggest deal, but still feels pretty cool to me. https://landscapephotographymagazine.com/2020/sanibel-island-light-florida-usa-michael-lewis/ I have periodically sent stuff in to that magazine, and the only other thing that they took was...

A quick trip to FL was highlighted by a visit to Kennedy Space Center. The lighting at the Saturn V Center was dark with mixed lighting, and made for some wonky colors, which originally convinced my to try this as a B&W composition. I really liked it much better once I saw it that way. I decided...

Literally. On this day in Feb '08, a control burn by the forest service a few miles inland, mixed smoke into the thin morning fog and almost did away with the horizon. Only the low islands across the bay gave it any definition. Old, rickety pier near Apalachicola, FL.