This was one of the last landscape photos I took before COVID hit. I had forgotten making a series of images at Fort DeSota Park. This is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge from the park’s East Beach.
Category: Notable Places
Lucky Peak Lake, Idaho
I just sold a copy of this print. It brings back some nice memories. At one point in my career, I was doing a fair amount of business travel. Ir’s not that much fun, but I got to visit some neat places even only for a brief time.We did some work in Boise and once I had a free afternoon to drive around. Lucky Peak Lake (reservoir) is on the Boise River a couple miles east of downtown. State Route 21 runs alongside it and for the next dozen or more miles climbs to the top of Moses Peak. It was (is) a beautiful drive through the mountains that provided plenty of photographic opportunities.
The crystal blue skies are delightful in the color version of this image, but I like the black and white with the puffy white clouds and the interesting tonal variations throughout the image.
The St. Augustine experience
“Party like it’s 1565” seemed to be just about everywhere in St. Augustine. The catchy phrase showed up on T-shirts, bumper stickers and perhaps even tramp stamps. (I didn’t spend any time investigating the latter.)
The slogan refers to the Florida city’s founding, making it the oldest continuously occupied, European-settled cities on the North American continent. All of the conditionals are important because there are challengers to the claim. Let’s just say St. Augustine is old. But partying like it was 1565? That’s the unintended story of St. Augustine in a nutshell.
Those who know anything about history, understand that there really wasn’t much to party about in 1565. Ivan The Terrible was about to become terrible. England was still attempting to recover from Henry VIII. France and Spain were jostling for control of the New World. The Spanish would execute some 300 French soldiers and sailors in settling and defending St. Augustine.