A random selection of flowers and plants that I’ve shot.

Some shots of a Great Blue heron fishing at twilight in the Destin Pass.

Pensacola is known as the “Cradle of Naval Aviation”. Every naval aviator and aircrewman in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, begins their training at Naval Air Station Pensacola.

My wife and I took a detour through Big Cypress on our last trip downstate. The highlight was discovering two dead alligators being devoured by a flock of vultures. Nature is lit.

“Mankind’s record in aviation is perfect. We’ve never left one up there.” ~ My Dad

Blue Mountain Beach is neither blue, nor montane.

Silent Hunter 4 is a legendary submarine simulator, but attempting to play the original DVD version on Windows 11 is an exercise in futility. Defunct Ubisoft validation servers and archaic StarForce/Tages DRM will permanently block the game from launching.

Hamilton was a Wirehair dachshund who, at about a year old, was found wandering the streets of Mary Esther, Florida. He was pinched by local animal control and placed into the adoption pipeline.

A few old photos of African cichlids from a Lake Malawi-themed tank I setup years ago. This was the first time I photographed fish using “pro” camera gear and I discovered that getting sharp photos with a decent depth of field and no flash is challenging.

Birds are fascinating photopraphy subjects whether they’re shot in the wild or in captivity.

On Florida’s Gulf coast, pelicans are ubiquitous. Though I’ve lived here for nearly twenty years, coming from the Midwest makes them endlessly exotic—and I still photograph them whenever I encounter them.

Shooting people candidly from long distances and getting spotted. Here’s why it happens.

Glenwood Park is a small park in the Cinco Bayou enclave of Fort Walton Beach. There’s not much to see and even less to photograph.