Temporarily Nomadic

       Last week I made a trip to Virginia... the DC area specifically.  It was a working trip so being a photographer I of course documented the experience, because I can't really see anything without first looking at it through a viewfinder.  While that is something of a misnomer since three out of four of these shots were taken with an iphone and edited in Instagram, but that's just a technicality, the constraints of the iphone as a tool for photography and the Instagram square crop are becoming just as ingrained as ISO, shutter speed and F stop for most of us these days, not that I will every put down my "real" camera and shoot solely on a smart phone, I like to be in control of my shot in most situations.                             
       Anyway this was what I saw and where I went.  I flew out of RSW (Ft Myers) with a carry on, my camera and Uglyhat.  Got lost listening to the GPS, hung out with Bambi and enjoyed a post thunderstorm sunset.  I enjoyed myself, missed my family and got to sit in a lot of traffic.  Which is the usual sort of thing that happens to me on trips like this, oh and the random crazy person that I encounter when I sit at a bar, but that is a completely different story and I most certainly don't have the time or space here to go into that. 

Vineland

Took my camera to work today to keep with a new tradition.  This is what I saw.  Mrs. Bosslady is gonna hate me.
HA!

The Birds of Burnt Store

        According to local history there was a trading post in the mid 19th century; almost at the mouth of the Caloosahatche River that had been on an old Indian trail. It was used by the the Calusa Indians, Hernando De Soto, and eventually by the US Army during the Second Seminole War. The trading post ended up burning down at some point during a late night raid of the fort and general store by a Chief Chekaika (or Billy Bowlegs depending on the account you read) and 160 Seminole warriors. The trail became known, after that incident, as Burnt Store Road.
        The Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Buffer zone state park which is undeveloped land, backs up against this two lane county Rd numbered 765.  This is the way I drive back from Cape Coral most days, just to see what I come across.  

Over the past week these are a few of our feathered friends that I have encountered on my way home from work in the afternoon.

New Job....

Shooting animals in the park while waiting to shoot people @ the Ritz in Naples