Late morning scene of a large marsh, ACE Basin, South Carolina.
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The only thing missing is an Alligator 😆.
Marsh Scene
Category Archives: What I Saw
Gone By… Moon Flowers
Even as they fade away I find the nightly Moon Flowers beautiful. Each one is a little different.
I think of all the flowers we have had these are by far the most photogenic.
Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100, Godox Ti32 flash, Lightroom, DxO Color Efex, DxO Silver Efex.
Orange Cone – For Earth Below, Keith Goldstein
Like many good street photographers Keith Goldstein, click here ’For Earth Below’, has a theme/project that he follows during his street shoots. Being in NYC he picked the ever present orange traffic cone. An invisible item in plain sight it’s amazing how many places and uses the cones can be found.
Yesterday we wandered around the old cemeteries and I stopped by baby Rosalie. The grave site is one of the last 1800’s plaster face casts surviving. Making a plaster cast of a deceased relative was a practice for a while. Below is her actual face in the head stone designed like an old baby carriage.
For years the tradition of leaving a small gift for a deceased child has been going strong on this rural grave site. It’s probably out of hand now, tourists come to cemeteries around here on ‘Ghost Walks’. I suspect they are leaving gifts.
One of the recent gifts were a few small figurines and… the ever present (miniature) orange traffic cone.
Seeing the cone I immediately thought of the web site ‘For Earth Below and Keith.
The grave of baby Rosalie Raymond, Charleston, South Carolina.
Fall Means Tall Grass And Reeds
You would never know there is a marsh between us.
The wooden gate of the trunk is about the only thing that points out anything but grass is there.
If you can believe it, there are dikes down the road in Bear Island that are at least twice as tall. Much taller than we are.
Ellen on a dike in Donnelley, South Carolina.
Middleton Plantation Fritillary
A random shot while at Middleton.
If there is any chance of photographing a butterfly it will be at one of the local plantations. They have gardens that have existed for hundreds of years. Something is in bloom there somewhere.
A Local, Alligator
Nothing dramatic here, but a typical scene out in a marsh.
I was standing on a dike road in the ACE Basin searching for birds when I shot this. The water is high, and not going down any time soon. Birds can’t easily feed in a big marsh with high water. Actually tonight we should be getting our highest tide of the year.
The Alligators save the day. Fun to photograph and plenty to find.
Best viewed large.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II, Lightroom, DxO Silver Efex.
Collection Of Mums
It has been a good year for Mums.
Best viewed large.
Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100, Lightroom, DxO Vivenza.
Lodge Pond, Alligators
I think both of these gators were found in the Lodge Pond, Donnelley.
It’s not the biggest marsh there, but even the smaller ones are like oceans. If you walked to the far side of Lodge Pond I would think it’s at least mile.
You could believe he’s sleeping. But no, most times the eyes are open enough to keep track of everything around them. Look close below 😁.
