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One of the most beautiful and complex gardens in Florida, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens sits beneath grand live oaks with a 1.4 mile trail through more than a dozen themed gardens on it’s 62 acres. Bamboo […]

The west side of the park offers views of the Matanzas River and nature preserves beyond, while the Atlantic side offers coquina rock formations for landscape photography and numerous sea bird populations. The formal gardens […]

Ravine Gardens State Park is one of the nine New Deal-era state parks in Florida. The park has two ravines up to 120 feet deep some with steep banks at 45-degree angles.  In 1933, the […]

The trail leads to the boardwalk on the La Chua Trail that leads on to the open prairie, sometimes over dry land, sometimes sometimes over water. There will be many opportunities for wildlife including alligators, […]

Northeast Florida Scottish Games and Festival will present many different opportunities for you to sharpen your street shooting skills. The various Athletic, Bag and Pipe and Dance competitions will present colorful subjects in interesting activities […]

Deck The Chairs is a winter holiday family experience in Jacksonville Beach. Inspired by the iconic features of the lifeguard chairs, creative display of decorated and lighted chairs underpin additional other colorful displays and programs […]

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville boasts some of the most important and delightful gardens in Northeast Florida. The gardens offer many types of photo opportunities under a canopy of mature live […]

We will shoot the sunrise from Blackrock beach on Big Talbot island using the large live oak driftwood and its rocky shoreline as props for our images. When finished we will proceed to Kingsley Plantation […]

We will travel to Perry county on the Gulf coast for some of the darkest sky available in northern Florida. We will have the best opportunity, weather and cloud cover cooperating, to photograph the Milky […]

The Sawmill Slough is a three-hundred acre natural area on the campus of the University of North Florida. The Sawmill Slough Preserve includes the original Sawmill Slough, a wetland habitat. In addition to the wetland, […]

We will shoot the rising sun from the pier and the area surrounding it. The sun will rise at its most northerly position of the year with the summer solstice two days following. The more […]

The Bulow Plantation ruins are the remnants of a prosperous slave built and maintained sugar, Indigo and rice plantation. The plantation was cleared and built in 1821 and operated until 1836 when it, and other […]

We are going to use the  Dutton Island and Tidal View preserves in Atlantic Beach for this outing. Anita Fanic will present and demonstrate in the field some of the various techniques she uses in […]

When Date: Saturday, March 20, 2021Time: 8:45 AM Admission Fees Regular admission $26.99 each. We have a club 20% discount with a minimum of 10 attendees. I need to confirm with the farm when we […]

When Date February 20, 2021Time Sunrise (meeting at 6:30 am) Admission Fees $5.00 per car at Washington Oaks State Park     Where 9805 N Ocean Shore Blvd, Palm Coast, FL 32137 Contact –  Dave […]

Outing: Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, main U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service East Entrance, 11 miles Southwest if Folkston, Georgia, off Highway 121/23 Date: September 26th, 2020 6:00 AM Departure from Jacksonville, 8:30 AM Boat Tour  Registration […]

While you were out a little bit Though we are still under moderate restrictions due to Covid-19, we are getting out and about somewhat. Let’s see how we are keeping our photography skills up. Share […]

Mandarin Garden Club: Service and More.

Keep Shooting and Sharing Join the “Covid Home Challenge” Although meetings and the planned April outing have been cancelled, we want to keep practicing our art and sharing what we are doing photographically. Your “assignment” […]

Our January 11 outing will be to Black Point Wildlife Drive located in Merritt Island’s National Wildlife Refuge (NWR).

Note: Registration Form is at the bottom of this post. Overview NE Florida has a few beaches which have Coquina rocks as a feature (pictured above).   May’s outing will be to the Coquina beach at […]

              Kanapaha Botanical Gardens (Gainesville, Florida) is comprised of 24 major collections visually accessible from a 1 ½ mile paved walkway. These include the state’s largest public display of […]

March 23, 2019 –
We will visit three  Sugar Mill Ruins: New Smyrna Beach, Sugar Mill Gardens, and Bulow Plantation Ruins

January 19, 2019
E.F.G. Orchids is located in historic DeLand. FL. Within its 20,000 square feet are housed many new orchid crosses, along with many other tropical plants.

June 23 – The summer solstice (June 21) is the moment in time when the Earth’s tilt towards the Sun is at its maximum and the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky.  On this day the northern hemisphere will experience it’s longest period of sunlight (14h 06 min).  At Boneyard Beach first Light is ~ 5:56 AM Sun Rise ENE @ 6:24 AM Ebb Tide  4.5′

August 18, 2018 Avonlea Antiques and Design Gallery
Located at 8101 Philips Hwy, Jacksonville, FL.
Avonlea is the largest antique mall in Northern Florida. Avonlea is home to 200 antique dealers in a 40,000 sq ft showroom.

May 19, 2018
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this park demonstrates the evolution of Florida farming from the 1850s to the mid-1940s-through three generations of the Dudley family. An authentic working farm, the homestead consists of 18 buildings, including the family farmhouse with original furnishings, an 1880s kitchen outbuilding, a general store and post office, and a functional cane syrup complex. Park staff in period clothing perform daily chores, raise crops and tend to livestock. The farm features seasonal cane grindings, corn shuckings and heritage varieties of livestock and plants. Deer, wild turkeys, gopher tortoises and bluebirds are still seen in the fields. The park has a visitor center, picnic area and nature trail.