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It was our first day of our visit to Florida. We rushed out to Circle B Bar Reserve (CBBR) just south of Lakeland hoping to get in before the gates closed at sunset. We consider this the #1 attraction in the State. Unfortunately, after parking, we realized we had only a few minutes before being required to leave the reserve. As we started a walk down one of the short trails, we immediately saw this Wood Stork sitting in a dead tree looking at the sky. The sun had already gone below the horizon . . . and I wondered "Do they see in color?"

Through my photography, I share the things I see in the natural world around me. My photographic aim is to end up with a photograph I can share that looks like what I saw in my mind's eye and to have it appreciated by the viewer. To that end, I shoot in camera raw and develop it in my digital darkroom to achieve a high quality, realistic-looking photograph of what I viewed. Beyond that process, I sometimes take a photograph to an additional step by rendering it as an Impressionist might have painted it centuries ago or by giving it a 'dreamy' look through my own technique . . . it all depends upon the photograph in front of me and how I wish to present it. I feel there exists an immediacy in much of photography that does not exist in...