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Palm Island Cape Haze, Florida

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This year my family and I took a much needed vacation to Palm Island Resort in Cape Haze, Florida. Palm Island is a beautiful and quiet destination with miles of undisturbed beaches and plenty of sea shells. I brought my camera with the hope of capturing some vivid west coast sunsets. The first 3 days or so did not cooperate with cloudy and raining skies. However, the last few days made up for the first few days with some great sunsets.

The only problem I had was trying to compose the shots with something interesting in the foreground so that the image would be more dynamic. I had to get creative as nothing jumped out at me. To make it harder I was also trying to keep an eye on my one year old while trying to set up my shot. All in all I am happy with the results.

On this trip I also had an opportunity to use my Outex cover some more. I really like this cover as it gave me the opportunity to create some unique photos that would have been impossible without it. I am still figuring it out but I am making progress.

A Surprise Milky Way Sighting on the Beach

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This past weekend was my wife and I’s 5th Wedding Anniversary and we decided to celebrate by getting out of town for the weekend.  We opted to stay on Palm Island on the West Coast of Florida.  Palm Island is a secluded island only accessible by ferry and once there all transportation is by golf cart instead of automobile.  As a result, the trip was very peaceful and fairly private, only encountering a handful of people each day on the beach.

I of course brought my camera with me and envisioned grand sunsets.  Unfortunately for sunset photography, but fortunately for enjoying the outdoors, a cold front came through on Friday and sinking air made for a cloudless sky.  With no clouds the photos seemed flat and uninteresting.  After the sunset, my wife and I took a walk down the beach to enjoy the cool weather.  By the time we had started making our way back the sky had turned completely dark and to my surprise the milky way was faintly visible out over the gulf.  Prior to this weekend the only time I had been able to see the milky way was when I was out in the middle of the Everglades.

I grabbed my camera and went back out to capture what I hoped were some unique shots of the milky way over the beach.  I managed to capture a few images I liked.

On the beach chair photo I did not get the focus right and the beach chair is sharp and in focus but the stars and milky way are a little blurry.  For the majority of the images, I tried to use the boardwalk and the pathway as a leading line taking the viewer into the scene and then connecting with the vertical milky way.  For one boardwalk image I chose not to center the boardwalk to give the image more depth.  I am not sure which boardwalk version I like better.