It has been almost two months since my last post, but I have an excuse. I just returned from a 7,000 mile, six and a half week driving trip from Colorado to and around Florida and back along the Gulf Coast stopping in Big Bend National Park and White Sands National Monument. Stuck in the middle of that was a trip down to the Caribbean island of Anguilla for a week as well. I did plenty of shooting along the way and will have plenty of new images to post as I get them processed. Someday I will kick myself in the butt and actually do some posting along the way, but it is hard to change old habits!
I spent four days in Everglades National Park exploring all that it had to offer. Landscape shooting can be somewhat challenging, but I still managed to scope out some pretty cool locations for both sunrises and sunsets. This image is from an area that is filled with dwarf cypress trees which grow in the more arid parts of the park. As you can see “arid” in the Everglades still includes some water though! This slough was right beside the road which made for a leisurely shoot since I didn’t have to do any slogging. The road actually gave me a better vantage point since I was raised above the water level and able to see to the horizon. What clouds there were caught a little glow from the last light of the day and golden light danced off the cypress trees accentuating the barren trunks. The silence of the moment made for a truly peaceful end of the day.
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Sounds like a nice and relaxing trip. Sounds like you came home to some more snow.
It was a real interesting trip Corey. I had to end it a day early because I came down with an infection. That was a bummer. We have gotten over a foot of snow in the two weeks since we got home. We need all we can get!