black and white and Easter all over

Hope you all had a wonderful, blessed Easter with family.  My family is getting smaller (spreading out) so I did some hangin' with my peeps...  I loved this assignment- I started in black and white years ago with a Nikkormat 35mm and a developing canister with two reels.  I had not done any black and white photography since college, even though my camera takes pictures in grayscale, and was pleasantly surprised at the quality without metering or "developing and printing" myself.  The black and whites were taken at Brooker Creek Park, east of Tarpon Springs, FL.

 

Seeing the forest and the trees

We have a lot of trees here in Florida and my favorite is the Live Oak- strong, slow-growing,  gnarly branches that grow in twists and turns.  The spaces formed under and between the branches of these trees feel sacred to me- if I was a forest fairy, I would make my home in a Live Oak!


                                      

                                              


                                       

We have three Blue Heron nests in the pine trees out back- we are on the second round of babies for the year.  These birds are incredible nest builders and their homes survive year to year despite a lot of windy weather.