This is just so beautiful....
Photograph by Allen Whitson | click here to see his other photos | Click here to go to Flickr to see the full-sized version
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Here's a gorgeous lake sunset---just as a break from all the gorgeous beach sunsets---from the lovely town of Melbourne (The Harbor City!) on the Atlantic coast. Amazing clarity in this photograph. Even the reflected apricot tints on the ripples in the foreground stand out sharply.
Sunset Lake Washington Melbourne Florida by John Emerson (website: John's Myspace Page)
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Sunset Lake Washington Melbourne Florida by John Emerson (website: John's Myspace Page)
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This is what I remember from when I first visited Clearwater Beach in 1992. As we drove along the causeway, this is what I saw out of my car window.
Highway Sunset by Erik Jaeger | ErikJaeger.com | To see his photographs, click here | To see the full-sized version of this photograph at Flickr, click here
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Rather melancholy weather today---not what one hopes for at the New Year here in Florida. I tried to think what to post and of course the first thing I thought of was, inevitably, fireworks. But then I found these. Flamingoes! What is more of a Florida icon than a pink- and-coral giant birds photographed among primitive plants? And what is brighter or more warming to the eye?
And---having research Flickr's commons in anticipation---I just happened to have bookmarked three spectacular photographs..
Happy New Year from Florida, land of (usually) beautiful balmy winters!!
This photographer--from Iceland---submitted this particularly beautiful shot of a flock of flamingoes. I loved the variegated pinks here, from that delicate pastel to that brilliant (literal) shrimp-pink (such a 1950's color, which might be why these birds always make me think of old postcards).
'Flamingoes in Florida' by Gunna (G.J.) | To see more of her photographs, click here | To see the full-sized version of this photograph at Flickr, click here |
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You know, looking at this head I am amazed that paleontologists and zoologists generally took so long to see the connection between birds and dinosaurs!
"Just the final touches" by Kenny P. who has some of the most awesome wildlife photography I've seen anywhere; click that link to see much, much more | To see more photographs, click here | To see the full-sized version of this photograph at Flickr, click here |
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Speaking of dinosaurs, check out this bird head. "How many people have hand-fed a flamingo?" she inquires. One of her commenters writes, "This is nuts. Are they specialized flamingo pellets? I tend to lose sight of the fact that they're real animals and not some mythical/iconic animal like a dragon. This incredible and freaky-ass angle do nothing to enhance the reality of it. So weird. So good." How many people have hand-fed a dinosaur? You can see what it would be like. I would so love to do this.
"The hand that feeds" by Jessica Reynolds | To see more of her photographs, click here | To see the full-sized version of this photograph, click here |
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This is the quintessential flamingo pose....but I had a really hard time choosing between the photographs he had. For example, here's one of two flamingoes demonstrating that it's not the stork who brings the mother flamingo her eggs. Here's one of two flamingoes having a stand-off. I picked this one because of its artistic qualilty, but these others are fascinating behavioral studies.
"Flamingo" by Andy | To see his other photographs, click here | To see the full-sized version of this photograph, click here
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I have quite a number of his amazing Florida photographs bookmarked and I've already used one of his CC photos (my favorite photograph ever of the St. Augustine Bridge of Lions). But this one made me laugh out loud. As they'd say at Cute Overload, flamingo 'tocks! I bet this flamingo would be mortified if he knew. It's not his best angle. But you've got to love the little bunch of a body on top of that long, long thin pink leg. It's like he's a yoga master.
"Relaxed flamingo" by Bill Frazzetto | To see his other photographs, click here | To see the full-sized version of this photograph at Flickr, click here
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While I found Fort Island Gulf Beach charming, I don't think we'd have gone back there as often as we did but for the beautiful wetlands we drove through to get there. I haven't been in years, but I remember a whole forest of palm trees with intervening stretches like this one (which does only a very mediocre job of capturing the way all the grass was sparkling in the sun.
One of the things I love is to see the reflection of the sun in millions of leaves or blades of grass. It was a magnificent spectacle on this particular afternoon in March 1997.
This photograph was taken by my father-in-law during during our day trip to Fanning Springs and the Suwanee River.
The first one illustrates that even in the deeps of our winter (or "winter"), you can always find brilliant greens. I am sorry that I cannot identify the ferns growing at the base of the cypress knees. I think the green among the trees might be our ubiquitous liveoak, which remains green year-round, but I don't know.
This photograph how weirdly beautiful are the cypress trees (and their knees). I really love the way the light and shadow give depth to the photograph. John (Nick's father) did a wonderful job composing these scenes and he did it with a pretty basic camera (I think probably a Kodak Easyshare).
