Curious… or morbid.


But you’re still here.
Walk through an old pine forest and you will see the scars.
The trees are tall and strong, near the base are small damages, blackened areas, even indentations.
The forest was burned, but a control burn. Dead grass is missing, healthy tall plants are all around. Nothing for a wild forest fire to eat.
Once Burned, Monochrome Monday



Note; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100 f4, in-camera custom filter, Lightroom.
Two simple monochrome photographs of a White Ibis around swamp water.
Usually I don’t do any straight out of camera photographs. However these were cropped and published.


OM-1 mk2, OM 12-100 f4
Ellen and I both relied more on shorter lenses in St. Augustine. The rookery birds ignore people and have been nesting here for many generations. A very unique situation.
Part of the barnyard of Middleton Plantation, South Carolina.
The property was first built around 1730, bigger buildings added through the mid 1800’s.
In 1865, during the US Civil War, much of the property was burned or damaged by Federal forces.

The current walls on the property were constructed with the original bricks from the ruined north flanker and main building.