Okaloacoochee Slough at Sunset

The Okaloacoochee Slough, the forest's namesake, is a 13,382 acre pristine slough that is oriented north-south through the forest. The natural systems of the Fakahatchee Strand and Big Cypress Preserve are dependent on the water supplied by the Okaloacoochee Slough. The Okaloacoochee Slough is one of the few places in south Florida in which the pre-Columbian landscape, north of the Everglades or Big Cypress National Preserve, can be observed. This unique natural system provides a large roaming area of contiguous habitat for a variety of wildlife species. The forest is home to listed, threatened, and endangered species such as the Florida panther, Florida black bear, sandhill crane, wood stork, and gopher tortoise.

Naples Pier; Tourists at Sunset

When you visit the pier to see the sunset in Naples during the height of tourist season, you are usually surrounded by dozens of visitors who are determined to capture this moment for their scrapbooks and albums. As the sun sinks, the people huddle into their family groups and snap one picture after another, until the moment that the sun disappears, when everyone applauds. This has been going on for at least the thirty years that I have been in Naples to see the winter and spring sunsets. Unfortunately, this particular sunset wasn't too compelling as far as Gulf sunsets go, but it was interesting to be there and to try my hand at a 360 degree pano. Another lesson learned...make sure to include more in the top and bottom than you need, because the warping that you have to do when stitching the photos together steals photo real estate from the top and bottom...which is why the people are mostly in the image from the neck up!

Naples FL Beach Club

Faced with one of those clear sky boring sunsets? Go 360!

Rural Georgia

Vegetable stand and farmer. I used Quicktime and the highest quality settings and it seems to have the same resolution as the original photo. I left the circular distortion in this one as an experiment.

Yosemite National Park CA

Merced River and cliff

Cape Elizabeth ME

Portland Head Light

Yosemite National Park CA

Waterfall over granite cliff.

Near Wilkes Barre PA

Waterfall in Rickett's Glen State Park

Naples FL

Storm in the Gulf.

Thurmont MD

Tulip Poplars in September

San Francisco CA

Golden Gate Bridge in the fog

Bailey Island ME

Glen's Lobsters This is a scan from an older Kodachrome slide.

Naples FL

Sailboat on the edge of a storm.

Camden, ME

Mountain trail near Camden Maine.

Naples, Fl

A rather mundane Naples Florida sunset taken from a single image. This is embedded with quicktime instead of flash, so you might be able to view it on a mobile device. The image quality seems to suffer a bit. I will tweak the settings to try to get better results at some point

Guitar Man

This is a single shot panorama from a photo made on the street in Richmond VA.

Waggoner's Gap Hawk Watch PA

This is a group of 3 handheld stitched images. The panorama was automatically created and hosted on Dermander.com.

Naples FL

This is a single shot panorama of the fishing pier in Naples FL.

Bass Harbor Lighthouse Maine

This image is a single image embedded with Flash. Scroll up by dragging to see the lighthouse.