Ten Pictures: Everglades Run with the Dogs

The penultimate image, the black and white one of my dog Ashley is special to me. That's because, after seeing it, I was reminded of the book to Kill a Mockingbird - specifically the scene when Scout notices a rabid dog and runs inside to alert Calpurnia who quickly calls up Atticus to come shoot it. The image, with my dogs aimlessly wandering along this dirt road really evoked that scene proving that photography can be what fuels random memories to surface once more.

Ten Pictures: The Everglades Along Tamiami (US 41)

I had been wanting to go west of Krome Ave into the Everglades for a while now to photograph it but the weather has been uncooperative. Its not that its been raining much because for the past week, especially for Summer in Miami, its been rather dry. But the problem is: the clouds. With my camera, when the skies are overcast and all you see is that mass of white, the pictures come out awful. They're too bright, the colors come out faded and you can't see anything. When you try and edit them, they don't improve very much either. What I need is a solid blue sky - maybe the occasional cloud, but not much more than that. When I left, the skies were still pretty blue, but after being there for about 1/2 an hour- the clouds began to roll in, then the rain - and then the overcast skies. While I'm happy about most of the photographs, the truth is they could have come out better - but there were still a few gems I managed to capture - specially the first one with the stop sign that looks like a gator took a bite out of it and the last one which is like a very detailed shot of the little things one tends to miss when visiting such a massive national park.