I took one more slog through the cypress trees tonight and had some luck with some cool clouds. This was my last evening of shooting before I start heading back north. The apartment is cleaned, the pickup is loaded and after one last morning shoot tomorrow at the Anhinga Trail I’m officially done with my Everglades shooting (for now).
I’m kind of glad to be heading home, but will miss this place. It’s been a great experience to be able to photograph what I want, how I want for a month. As always after finishing a big project, I’m not sure how well I’ve done. I expected that I would have much better work to show after so much effort. But I have learned a lot and this isn’t the last time I’m going to be out shooting. I’ve got many more adventures in the pipeline and this is just the start.
I’m not sure it this is a great photo or not, but it really captures what it feels like to be in a cypress dome. I spent about an hour wading around this dome enjoying the solitude. It was overcast when I started in, which is the best light to shoot in there, but then the sun came out soon after I shot this photo so I trudged out into the open sawgrass and shot the top photo as the sun dipped down in the west over the River of Grass.
