I love the waxy, bokeh in this photo. 1942 is when this was taken. We’re still trying to emulate this with digital….awesome.
Late in the afternoon at the Ranch. The heifers in the back fence are some of the young ladies of the herd. We have some really old Florida Cracker, mama cows that are amazing. Sweet old ladies that always produce.
I love the orange’s and yellows late in the day out there. It never fails to offer something interesting and this was a great opportunity to capture the layers of moss in the old oaks, the sandy dust that gets kicked up around the fence line and gates…it’s all the Florida I know and love.
This was my Nikon D2x w/ a Sigma 70-300 at f5.
This is one of my favorite pictures. I love the subtleties in the shadows and color.
I guess “popular image” is an overstatement but it has gotten a few views and a couple of little awards on Flickr.com.
These three men are true cowboys born and raised working cattle in North Florida. Yeah, that’s right, Cowboys in north Florida; Apalachicola area, Keaton Beach to be precise. They’re 3rd generation Florida Crackers.
Crackers were the original settlers in the north Florida area and were called such because of the cracking of the whip they used to drive the cows through the marsh lands and cedar swamps.
As a child I remember going “Cow Huntin” on our land. We had to do that because we didn’t really fence much of the land and the cows were free to roam the 2000+ acres. That meant that every season the heifers were having calves we’d had to mark them so we’d know who’s calves were whose.
This is a picture of my family as I remember it.
Quick link to my photography galleries. Mostly stuff I’m posting for other folks to get to…might be interesting to see I guess. I started taking pictures seriously about 2 years ago although I’ve been into photography for a long time.
PerspectaStudio.com
I started with a Canon 20d and fell in love with the art of it all. As a graphic designer and web designer, it was a big benefit to be able to do my own portraits, architecture or interesting photos for my design work. Since then it’s grown into a full-time interest. It will probably never be my job and I might not ever make a dime off a phot I take but I love to wander around looking for that next image.
