The golden Fall colors haven’t arrived yet, but the tall grass and reeds have lost much of their shades of green.
I would call this a halfway shot. I couldn’t decide whether to shoot full wide for a true landscape or zoom up close on the Great Egret.
He made the decision for me and started to fly off. So I ultimately got a wide shot of the bird in flight.😆
On a vine climbing up the side of a pine tree. It had one single Moon Flower on this night.
Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100, Godox iT32 flash, Lightroom, DxO Color Efex.
I was looking around for some new Snowy Egret shots. I’ve published Great Egrets recently, even have a few in the que, but no little Snowy Egrets. My current active hard drive has thousands of images I just had to go find some Snowy’s.
I found some.
Two Snowy Egrets in some brush preening and getting all fluffy. For something different I finished them in a sepia tone.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II, Lightroom, DxO Silver Efex.
There are numerous sections in this old cemetery area. If just wandering you can pass through Magnolia, enter Soldiers Ground, next the local Catholic graveyard and back into the old Umbra plantation house in Magnolia Cemetery. Across the road there must be ten AME cemeteries also.
I prefer the old Victorian designs, so I stay along the marsh banks.
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Specs; OM-1 (1), Olympus 40-150 r, Lightroom, Topaz.
I’m pretty sure they think I can’t see them. After all, they’re hiding.
If you are the biggest and badest one out there you don’t necessarily need to be the smartest.
ACE Basin, South Carolina.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400, Lightroom.
From the original 1800’s Charleston Jail.
Best viewed large.
Note;
In 2019 a group of around 8 people were invited to document the old jail for what might have been the last time. The property had been sold to private developers, the interior was set to be demolished. The original interior was intact at this point.
Ellen and I, along with a well known historical photographer who was instrumental in getting us there, were included. The above was one of my favorite, and horrific, images.
Think of being in the dark cell, thick bars and block walls, and seeing the keys hanging across the hall… out of reach. Stedt Bonneau, the Gentleman Pirate, and the crew of Black Beard’s pirates were held here before execution.
During the late 1800’s a section was set aside as an asylum.
I’ll be locking my door tonight.
I’m not really sure why, but the old nondescript headstones I find intrigue me. Most off to the side, on their own, their story long gone.
The least I can do is photograph them, give them some recognition.
Specs; OM-1 (1), Olympus 40-150 r, Lightroom, DxO Filmpack.
This old cemetery has dirt tracks that run along side marshes, woods, and ponds. Sometimes there’s a plan on where to go, most often I just wander. No matter what it’s an incredible place to be with a camera.
Specs; OM-1 (1), Olympus 40-150 r, Lightroom, DxO Silver Efex.
