Just a day, like any other day, at a swamp.
Funny How This Doesn’t Look Weird Anymore.
Category Archives: This and That
Prothonotary Warbler (1)
I have been saying lately I keep missing the Prothonotary Warbler so far this year.
Below is where they come to nest in the Lowcountry, our darkest swamps. This one happens to be the Four Hole Swamp on the Beidler Forest property. Four Hole is a large black water creek of Tupelo, Cypress, and Gum trees. Trees here are over 1,000 years old.
Now the swamps are large, this Warbler, tiny. A good thing they are a smooth feathered vivid yellow because you could lose a city in here.
Because I like a challenge, I was shooting with a 12 – 200 mm lens.
Rebecca (https://walkingonacountryroad.com/) I found some…please squint.
All Dressed Up, But Shy
A Great Egret in her bridal feathers, hidden in a Red Oak.
Some of the greatest photographs of wildlife are of the Great Egrets in their breeding feathers. The Audubon Society has used this as its defining identity for decades. Some of my best shots have been of these birds in mating season.
Every year it’s the same struggle though. Sticks and branches most always get in the way.
I get what I can, usually deleting tons of shots. For now, this was a decent start.
Urban Critters, Charleston
These are proof that if you look around there is always something of interest to photograph.
Walking down a side street in town this door knocker, a Fox, caught my attention. It wasn’t very big but there it was.
Below was on the hood of a car. Not the famous Jaguar, or the Mack truck Bulldog. A chrome Hippo. Again, not big but shiny and obvious.
Walking around town, Charleston, South Carolina.
Evening In A Statue Garden (5)
Not really sure what was going on here, a bit dark.
Might not want to see in the daylight either.
Evening In A Statue Garden (2)
A large stalking cat, from the Brookgreen statuary garden at night.
After the sun was down everything we photographed was done with the the lights and candles on the grounds.
Shrimper, Commercial Dock
The docks here are almost half filled with large private pleasure craft. The gentrification of the fishing piers.
The working boats will stick here for a while yet. People want to eat sea food, and shrimp is a South Carolina staple. There are still enough wholesalers here that own the land and docks to keep things busy too.
These old fishing boats have more character than the new sleek plastic ones for sure.
Found On A Walk, Pink Pumpkin
I was not passing this up. Way to colorful to ignore.
Magnolia Plantation garden, Charleston, South Carolina.