Indian River, Palm Bay, FL
Indian River, Indialantic, FL
As I sit at my desk listening to the wind whip the snow around the house into big drifts, I find myself longing for days like this one. A simple bench on the edge of the water watching the sun set over a peaceful river. It is a symptom of the inconsistency in the weather. A few days ago it was in the 50’s, now it is in the teens with 20 mph winds. I really don’t mind the snow. It blankets the country side and provides great photo opportunities. I’m tired of the cold, especially when there is a strong wind… time to fire up the browser so I can plan a return trip to Florida and some warmth. 🙂
Kiwanis Park, Palm Bay, FL
I’m still cold! If it was only snow, then I would be OK, but this cold is really getting to me. I have to ride this out over the weekend and by Monday we will have rain. WTH? For now, here is another warm, Florida image to enjoy…
Cocoa Beach, FL
OK, I’m tired of hearing about the polar vortex and I had to shovel the driveway this morning with a wind chill of -24F. I was only outside for twenty minutes but that was enough for me to want to remember a warmer time. I pulled up my pictures from the trip to Florida over Christmas and found this one that has a nice warm feel to it. I love the reflection of the sunrise in the windows of the restaurant on the pier…
Cocoa Beach Pier
I suppose I should make my apologies now. I’m still processing images from my trip to Florida. It is a combination of numerous opportunities for good images and the winter hasn’t settled in here in Upstate NY. I find it hard to go out and photograph when there isn’t a nice layer of white snow covering the brown of late autumn. So for now, you will get a few more Florida images… 🙂
This image is back up at Cocoa Beach. I hung around until the sun broke the horizon. There was a nice layer of clouds low in the sky that I felt would provide some interest as well as catch more of the morning colors. It never hurts to have the pier in silhouette against the sun, nor some nice waves running toward the shore. I almost switched to my telephoto lens but this 40mm top end on my workhorse lens provided the right amount of zoom. Any closer and I think I would have been crowding the frame.