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Anhinga Trail: Fish and the Cold

January 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) with dead Walking Catfish - Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park, Florida

Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) with dead Walking Catfish - Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park, Florida

If you have seen the weather in the last few weeks, you know that Florida had one crazy cold snap.  We saw record breaking lows, extended periods below freezing, and I even heard of a few bits of snow!  All this was fairly bad.  It made my wife and I change our plans.  It has possibly devastated the citrus industry.  Driving around Homestead and Florida City, I see a lot of dead banana trees and entire fields of dead squash plants.  However, all this cold did benefit one thing here in the Everglades: native wildlife…

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Anhinga Trail: All About Anhingas

January 15, 2010 By 1 Comment

Male Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) - Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park, Florida

One of the iconic locations in Everglades National Park is the Anhinga Trail at Royal Palm.  This boardwalk is only about a half mile long but it extends out into the marsh affording extremely close views of alligators, herons, egrets, and if you are lucky, a purple gallinule.  However, the stars of the show are really the trail’s namesakes, the Anhingas.

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Return to the Everglades

January 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Great Egret (Egretta alba) scratching an itch - Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park, Florida

It was five years ago, give or take a week or so, that I moved to the Everglades to begin a five month photographic project.  As a junior in college “studying abroad” in the Everglades, it was my first taste of the life I had imagined. Photographing on a daily basis.  Waiting for the perfect life day after day.  Following a nest of birds as they matured.  It was everything I wanted it to be.

Now, five years later, I have returned.  I won’t be here for five months but I’ll be here for at least a month.  This is the first time I have really been back for any significant period of time.  Mostly, things are the same but two major hurricanes in late 2005 (Katrina and Wilma) have transformed Flamingo, the area I lived.  I am extremely excited to see how things here have changed and how I have changed as well.

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Headed into the Field

January 4, 2010 By 2 Comments

When this post goes live, I will be on the road headed south to the Everglades to start the first of about 7 weeks photographing in the field in the Everglades and throughout Florida. During this period, I will be spending a fair amount of time in the wilderness, far from computers and the Internet so the blog will be a bit intermittent.

My hope is to schedule posts for publication during these times, but I make no promises that I will have the time to write the posts that I normally put together.  We will just have to see how things go and come together.  Regardless of what happens with the blog over the next two months, when I return to New York in late February, I will have a wealth of new material for the blog.

For the next week, my wife and I will be canoeing in the 10,000 islands and western Everglades and I know the blog will sit idle.  Please bare with me during this time and after that, I hope I can keep up with the posts!  Talk to you next week!

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What do you want to see in 2010?

January 3, 2010 By 1 Comment

Happy New Year and I hope you and yours have had a great holiday season.

As the New Year begins, I have been doing a lot of thinking and planning on where I will take Wanderer’s Apprentice this year.  I have a lot of big plans and am really excited about a lot of what I have in store for this blog.  However, before I get too caught up in what I want to do, I wanted to take a moment to see what you want me to do. After all, this blog is written for you so let’s hear what you want me to write about.

In the last few months you’ve seen posts featuring single photographs, essays with multiple photographs, tips on creating better photographs, insight into the natural history of my subjects, and summaries of cutting edge scientific research.   Additionally, each Sunday I have posted a longer essay on a variety of topics.  As I begin to put some new plans in motion, I’d love to hear what you have enjoyed reading and what hasn’t spoken to you.  Also, what is this blog missing?

Please, don’t be shy, speak up and leave a comment.  I truly want to provide content that is thoroughly read and enjoyed so tell me what you want to see!  I’m open to any and all suggestions!  Thank and I look forward to a spectacular 2010!

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