Tag Archives: landscape

Cemetery, Charleston, Historical, Landscape, This and That

Gibbes Mausoleum, Magnolia Cemetery

November 18, 2018 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

This mausoleum, the Gibbes family, has an unusual earthen roof. James Shoolbred Gibbes is buried here. He died in 1888 but other family members lie here also.

Gibbes Mausoleum, Magnolia Cemetery - click to enlarge — Gibbes Mausoleum, Magnolia Cemetery – click to enlarge

Before his death he had the angel statues carved in Italy. The plans for this building are in the US Library Of Congress and it is registered with the National Historic Registry.

James Shoolbred Gibbes, donated $100,000 to the Carolina Arts Association upon his death in 1888 for the “erection of a suitable building for the exhibitions of paintings.” The donation was the start of the well known Gibbes Art Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.

Birds, Marsh, Swamp, What I Saw, Wildlife

Hunting Fly By, Bald Eagle

November 18, 2018 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

This was taken while at least 5 other Eagles flew nearby. I was even able to get a few shots of Eagles attempting to steal fish from each other.

Most of the birds kept their distance fishing (and hunting the local Ibis) on the far side of this marsh. There were times they flew all around me.

Hunting Fly By, Bald Eagle - click to enlarge — Hunting Fly By, Bald Eagle – click to enlarge

This gathering might be the start of nest building here.

Charleston, Landscape, Marsh, Swamp, This and That

Cold, Wet, Landscape

November 16, 2018 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

There is beauty out there even in the cold and damp.

Cold, Wet, Landscape - click to enlarge — Cold, Wet, Landscape – click to enlarge

This is part of an old canal that linked the interior to the marshes and waterways of the Lowcountry.

View these on a large screen if you can, they are very detailed images.

Birds, Charleston, Landscape, Owls, This and That, Wildlife

Barn Owl, Eagle Owl

November 16, 2018 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 2 Comments

A change of pace article. Two portraits of Owls.

I have built a collection of so many like these that I have photographs I have never seen. When publishing from a group of like images there are times you just grab one at random, can’t pick one over the other.

These are the ‘other’.

Barn Owl Portrait - click to enlarge — Barn Owl Portrait – click to enlarge

North American Barn Owl.

Eagle Owl Portrait - click to enlarge — Eagle Owl Portrait – click to enlarge

Savigny’s Eagle Owl

I need to set aside some time soon to look through the collections.

Taken at The Avian Conservation Center.

Birds, Heron, Landscape, Marsh, Spoonbill, What I Saw, Wildlife

A New Perspective

November 15, 2018 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

A place I have seen and photographed hundreds of times. If you visit this web site you too have seen it. (Click here to view a recent shot).

I don’t remember ever taking a photograph of that spot from one of the dikes.

Above was taken as I walked down the side of this marsh, actually it was a remote plantation rice field a few hundred years ago.

The island has a single (and shaky) dead tree. Here it is filled with Roseate Spoonbills and a Great Blue Heron. Another Heron is fishing in the shallows, and what you can’t see is the scores Alligators in the marsh grass.

Scenes like this just reinforce how beautiful the Lowcountry wild lands are.

Birds, Egret, Heron, Landscape, Marsh, Shore Bird, Spoonbill, Stork, Wildlife

Loud, Chaotic, Beautiful, And A Rare Sight

November 15, 2018 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 4 Comments

Something set them off and they all took to the air at the same time. It was deafening and amazing, there was at least a thousand taking off at the same time.

What makes this even more special are the mix of birds and how not that long ago this might never have happened.

Wood Storks were endangered and almost gone, Roseate Spoonbills would stay in Central / South America, and some Egrets were hunted to almost extinction.

Loud, Chaos, Beautiful – click to enlarge

Yet here they were, all together in front of my camera.

I have added images to a gallery to allow large detailed viewing.

Click, or double tap, to open.

Loud, Chaos, Beautiful – click to enlarge

Alligator, Birds, Egret, Landscape, Marsh, Wildlife

A Wide Shot On A Marsh, Alligator And Egret

November 15, 2018 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

I always like these wide, serene shots with a little wildlife thrown in. They should be simpler than they look. Most times the final photograph is not as good as what I had in my head.