I’ve been working on a project. While not complete, I’m at a point where I can (and need) to take a break. So I thought I would kick this blog off again. Right after Hurricane Irene I figured the season and the wet conditions were right for wild mushrooms. So I went to a spot I’ve had found mushrooms in previous years.
Here is the first of several I post in the next few days.
BTW, I know nothing about what kind of mushrooms these are or if they are eatable.
It’s time for a new series, and given that it is now spring here in the southeastern Pennsylvania, what better topic than spring wildflowers. While the early emerging flowers seemed to start on schedule those that follow seem to be a week to maybe two weeks late. Probably because it’s been pretty cool so far this spring.
This image is from a few weeks ago. 
Snow drops are one of the fist wildflowers to emerge. When you get in close it allows you to see the delicate beauty of individual blossoms.
I thought that I would end this series of posts from Low County with some somber images from the Beaufort National Cemetery.
When doing research for this trip the National Cemetery did not make the radar screen. But as fate would have it we “discovered” it while heading to what I would call a marginal sunset opportunity. (A couple of working boats at a dock, near a restaurant, to be shot over the mash.)
When we passed the cemetery we could not resist the opportunity to at least check it out. The quality of the light and the presence of Southern Live Oak trees, with hanging Spanish moss, made it a location too good to pass up. We never made it to our intended destination.
I was not particularly surprised to see alligators in this part of the county. But I was surprised by how many there are. Here are just a few on the many we saw.
And the size of some of these guys was impressive. It made me wonder, ”What do these guys eat to get that big and to maintain that size?”
Here are a few bird image I made while on the recent trip to Low Country.
The reflection of the bird itself as well as the reflection of the blue sky are what makes this image of a Greater Yellowlegs. I wish I had been able to get a lower camera position.
Late one morning during the trip went looking for some working boats. Here are a couple of pix.
Contrails are the bane of any landscape artist.
While I was still on the beach theme I thought I would post a few seashell images from the recent trip down to Low Country.
When you are at a beach shooting sunrise, after the sun rises and the light gets too harsh to shoot landscapes any longer; turn around and shoot close-ups of seashells using the low angle of the light to accentuate the textures in the shells and in the sand at the surf line.
In this image I really liked the reflection. I intentionally left the bight out-of-focus shell in the foreground. What do you think, does it help draw the eye into the image and ultimately to the subject, the scallop shell and it’s reflection. 
One more post with these dead trees at sunrise before moving on to something new. In these two compositions I placed the sun behind the tree to block it and let the shadows from the trees act like leading lines to draw the viewer into the image.
