Lobster Traps

The photo of the week is a photograph of a stack of lobster traps at Marathon, FL on the Florida Keys. The pattern of the stacked traps and the barnacles on them caught my eye. They leave an interesting vertical design design in light and dark. This stack was just one of many hundreds of [...]

Bayou LaBatre, the heart of Alabama’s shrimping industry, ws divisasted by Hurricane Katrina in September of 2005. It was one the deadliest storms in the history of the country. Most of the shrimp boats were tossed around like corks on a stormy ocean and sunk, ended up tossed up on shore or were badly damaged. [...]

I begin the new year with a photograph from the end of 2009, the art work of a street artist on the edge of the French Quarter. It was near dusk when this scene was captured and the very brilliant colors in the paintings jump out at you from the dark background of vegetation. There [...]

The photo of the week  is actually “photos of the week. ”  They were  taken recently at an Indian Pow Wow near our home in Florida. Every year the Santa Rosa Creek Indian Tribe  presents its annual Indians Day Celebration. This dancer was one of its Spirit Warrior Dancers. Photo taken 2009.

The photo of the week takes us to the French Quarter in New Orleans. Music is everywhere there. This street musician was a member of a trio playing outside Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter. It is one of several shots I took of him and other members of the group playing for the [...]

You will find fisherman along the river from the very source all the way down to the gulf in boats of all shapes and sizes. This fisherman was waiting for the fish to really take the bait before setting the hook. However, the fish did not cooperate. But it was still a beautiful autumn day [...]

This photograph was taken near Rosemary Beach in the Florida Panhandle. You could call it a sign to nowhere or a sign to everywhere. The real problem with this photograph was to get the right lighting on most of the sign arrows so you could read them without losing them in the clouds or in [...]

This is one of my favorite photos taken around 1965 of a small boy pushing against a large metal gate on a late fall afternoon. The darkness in the foreground and the dark trees in the background provide almost a 3-dimension to the scene. The late afternoon sun turns the autumn leaves into a white [...]

Approaching storm clouds highlight the barren gulf trees that have have not survived hurricanes and other storms. The whiteness of the clouds provides a depth to this panoramic scene of Florida’s gulf coast. Photograph taken August 2009

This old mill wheel in southern Tennessee is framed by two trees and the dark leaves of the plants in the foreground. The scene lends itself best to a vertical photograph. The water from the mill’s race on the right adds a bit more light to the scene. The light brick of the mill brings [...]