David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Views of the land around the world
December Road Trip to Florida in 2011: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore
I spent one final day at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Playalinda beach at Canaveral National Seashore.
I began the day early at Fort De Soto park with my brother to watch the sun rise under the Sunshine Skyway bridge. The sky was just starting to show some signs of light when we arrived. There was a line of clouds above the Skyway bridge, and it looked promising for the sun to come up under the clouds. I set up two cameras, one with a 16 mm wide-angle lens, and one with a 500 mm telephoto lens to do time-lapsed sequences of sunrise.
December Road Trip to Florida in 2011: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
Birds (American Avocet, Great Egret, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbill, and an unknown bird) and Reptiles (Rat Snake, Turtle, and Alligator) along Black Point Wildlife Drive or Biolab Road in the National Wildlife Refuge.
Winter Walkabout in New Jersey: Backyard and Sourland Mountain Preserve
Northern mockingbirds in the backyard, then tall grass and a lonely lawn chair at the Sourland Mountain Preserve
Gone to See Antarctica 2014/5: Day 11 – Hurtigruten MS Fram near Strømness, South Georgia
There are not many hours of darkness this far south at this time of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. You need to stay up late to see the colors at sunset and dusk, and very early to see the colors at dawn and sunrise. I was fortunate to catch this cloud formation at 03:51 AM. No one else was out on the deck other than the ship’s late night watch.
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