Monthly Archives: January 2011

Photography Annual / Gallery at Rookery Bay

If anyone is going to be in the Naples area on February 3rd, you should think about attending the opening reception for the PhotographyAnnual at Rookery Bay.  It’s cosponsored by the United Arts Council of Collier County.  One of my wave images will be exhibited along with the work of some other fabulous photographers.  The...

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Florida Scrub Habitat-Lake Wales Ridge

More than  a million years ago, Florida was mostly under water.  Elevated ridges were the only exposed lands.  One of these ridges is the Lake Wales Ridge. It is also the oldest and stands at nearly 300 feet above sea level (practically a mountain by Floridian standards).  Isolated by sea, plants and animals developed unique...

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Simon - Lovely stuff, your landscape/nature shots are always a treat! It’s great to see another side of Florida, away from Miami and Disney etc. Can’t wait to come back some day.January 18, 2011 – 11:59 am

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve

For our year-end trip, I chose to spend time exploring some of Florida’s lesser-known ecosystems, specifically scrub habitat along the Lake Wales Ridge and dry prairie at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve.  Once dominant ecosystems in the center of the state, they have been reduced to disconnected remnants. I’ll be posting a few blog entries describing the...

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Simon - Beautiful shots! I once went to Florida in a cold spell, but not 20 degrees cold, I didn’t know it could get that cold down there.January 6, 2011 – 5:06 am

LME - Thanks Simon. It’s certainly not that common for it to get that cold here. The night before we arrived at the prairie, the low was 17 degrees…cold by anyone’s standards. By our third day, it was back to shorts and t-short weather.January 6, 2011 – 10:13 am

Donna Bollenbach - I was just at the prairie for New Year’s. My husband and I visit a couple times a year. We took a long hike to gum slough and the footbridge (in the five mile slough hammock. I love the frost in these images. You can feel the cold. Great representations of a beautiful Florida treasure.

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DonnaJanuary 6, 2011 – 7:25 pm

LME - Thanks Donna! We left on the morning of the 31st. I wonder if we crossed paths.January 6, 2011 – 10:53 pm

Reed Bowman - Laurie, as a resident of the LWR and someone who occassionally works at KPPSP, your images are really wonderful. I especially like you interpetation of the LWR and your turkey oak shots as well as your fristy morning shots from KPPSP…very niceFebruary 11, 2011 – 12:32 pm

LME - Thanks Reed!February 16, 2011 – 1:17 am