This is what keeps me excited every day that I am blessed to be able and get out and photograph what lies before me. There are certain areas I like to return to time and time again, each time is as if I was there for the first time. Nothing is ever the same, never boring, which does not register in my vocabulary. I have been plugging away with photography over forty years, beginning back in high school with my high school physics teacher selling me his Yashica JP 35mm camera with a 135mm screw mount lens and a Sekonic meter.
There is a facebook friend who said he has been in landscape photography three years now and his new website was about to take off. I quipped, you must be using rocket fuel, for after forty years, I have yet to take off, I must be using diesel. Experts are not measured in the number of years, often by the breaks they get, or the money, but mostly, the talent. This particular photographer seems to possess all.
But, back to the blessed. When I was out at Alligator Lake the wind was strong and the clouds were rolling rapidly past, a constantly changing sky, light and shadow. I spotted this particular cloud sailing through past that resembled a leaf. It was fortunate I was near this tree of dried leaves that mimicked the cloud. I rapidly set the camera and took several exposures. It was not until reviewing that I noticed the pattern of the cloud and how it looked as if it was coming out of the tree.
I titled it Micco Leaf after much thinking what to call it. Micco is chief in Seminole. Thus, the chief leaf. These are the unexpected surprises I look forward to when I go out.
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