I titled this ‘Watching Closely’ because if you enlarge the image you will see just how outnumbered the small Snowy Egret is.
Truth here is this is a common scene. The birds mingle with Alligators all the time. I can’t remember the last time I saw a gator grab one. They will snap if there are young nearby, otherwise it’s easier to get fish or crabs.
This was taken with my B&W setup. OM-1(1), Olympus 12-200, custom monochrome mode. The idea is to force myself to get better in this format.
He had no interest in me, or in posing.
I took this shot behind a cafe in the old village of Port Royal. Last year I photographed him, or so I thought. Immediately after taking this I looked behind him and saw his twin sitting nearby.
A passing shot of a local.
Found on a walk by a salt marsh.
Standing in the cane he fades away. If you didn’t know he was there, he wasn’t.
I think this may be one of my favorite Tricolored photographs.
Best viewed large.
Up high on a Cypress Tree overlooking a swamp.
Great Blue Heron.
Posing head shot, Great Blue.
I have read the bigger plantations kept both Swans and Peacocks. They were loud, aggressive, a way for planters to show their wealth.
Middleton Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina.
The main plantation house at Magnolia Plantation.
I believe the current building dates to the 1870’s. The previous house was burned, along with neighboring Runnymede Plantation, and Middleton by federal troops as they past the Charleston ‘Plantation Row’. Drayton Hall, 5 miles up the row (Ashley River) was ignored due to Yellow Fever being active in the house (or someone smart enough to fly the yellow warning flags out front).
A thought; hardly any plantations look like what we have been shown in the movies for years. The old Hampton Plantation (Santee Delta, SC) comes close. Forest Gump was filmed in several local plantations that come close.
Truth is most plantations either had no buildings being just big rice/cotton fields, or the homes were made of clay bricks. Termites and fires destroyed many homes. Only the wood from Black Cypress was as strong as clay bricks.
Charleston, South Carolina.
