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Tarpon and Full Moon
It was a calm, cool and beautiful afternoon and a full moon would be rising in a couple of hours. I decided I would set up a shot of the rising moon with an idea I had in mind. The winds were out of the west, which meant incoming jets to Palm Beach International would be approaching from the east and in-line with a big orange moon. Furthermore this time of year large flocks of turkey vultures congregate on the mangrove islands that lie between West Palm Beach and Palm Beach. At times when the wind is moderate to high and the air temperature dips below 60 degrees the vultures coast high over the intra-coastal waterway. My hope was to capture an incoming jet flying over hundreds of vultures that were silhouetted by a full moon.
Picture of the Week, 11/29/10
Witches Rock, Costa Rica
Witches Rock in the Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. This is a seldom seen view of the famous surfing landmark. It was taken half way down the trail head that begins on the Pan American Highway. Most surfers travel by boat and thus are not afforded this scaled back view of the rock.
Picture of the Week, 11/15/10
I captured this image while working for Smithsonian Institution. My assignment was to photograph wilderness areas of Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina for a guide book to the natural areas of those states.
The Rush of Water
For years I’ve enjoyed putting together slideshows upon returning from overseas travels. My friends and family found them entertaining and it was a fun way of sharing my experiences and photography. Originally the shows were shown on a single Kodak Carousel Projector and later they evolved to where I was using multiple projectors with synchronized sounds for a true multimedia experience. The one constant I always incorporated in my shows was a kick-ass sound track; there might have been a few critical comments about the images but never about the music!
Today of course the world has been digitized and with that so have my shows. Everything is basically still the same however now I work with digital files and not slides and I use a DVD player attached to a digital projector instead of the carousel trays. Naturally the music is still there and I can add captions, recorded sounds and even motion videos to the shows.
Most shows that I produce are on the average of 30 minutes long, which is too long to post online. Thus I decided it would be fun to create a short version specifically to place on YouTube and elsewhere on the Internet.
I had recently recorded sounds of waves and that gave me the idea of using ‘water’ as a theme. The photographs are not cohesive in any manner other than water and the idea was just to have some fun and give this a try. I used several shots of my son at the beach setting off balloons for his deceased mother on Mothers Day only to ground the show and give it a bit of spirituality, something I tend to do on many of my productions even though I never intend to from the onset. I guess there’s more to life than meets the eye!
Anyway, I hope to create many more for both the Internet and for public showings as I truly enjoy this manner of sharing.
A summer (winter) vacation in New Zealand
Aidan photographing the cliffs of Constant Bay
What better way to spend the month of July than getting away from the heat, humidity and mosquitoes of South Florida and spending it way ‘Down Under’ or close enough.
My son and I packed winter clothes for our summer vacation, flew countless hours and thankfully landed in the land of Lord of the Rings and lamb chop, New Zealand!