Waiting for the Freight Train
by terranovabay
Railroad crossing scenic — east coast Florida.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Florida, Indian River County, railroad, Train
Category Archives: Field Photography
The King Fisher
by terranovabay
Largest of the Kingfishers is Australia’s Laughing Kookaburra seen here at the Brevard Zoo. This bird of prey is noted for its manic call, which is a key feature in the background audio of a lot of Hollywood jungle movies regardless of the continent the featured jungle is supposed to be located.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Australia, Dacelo novaeguineae, Kingfisher, Laughing Kookaburra
Space Station Deferred
by terranovabay
Years ago at the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program and long before the International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex used to have a mockup of a future space station complete with animatronic astronauts. The idea was this is something the Space Shuttle would help to build although it looked a little sci-fi to keep it interesting. Sadly, this large station would not be built but the exhibit was fun. You know they are in space because the […]
Categories: Darkroom Photography • Tags: Kennedy Space Center, Space Shuttle, Space Station
Fence with Jaguar
by terranovabay
Okay, this will be the last Jaguar photo from the Brevard Zoo for the foreseeable future. The fun thing about the Jaguar exhibit is that the Jaguars can climb out of their ground level enclosure and go up onto an aptly named catwalk that passes high over the path taken by the Zoo visitors. A fact that often goes unnoticed by people until it is pointed out that a Jaguar is staring at them from overhead usually leading to some […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Brevard Zoo, Jaguar, Panthera orca
Restless Jaguar Tuesday
by terranovabay
Can’t get enough of the Jaguars at the Brevard Zoo. Beautiful animals in a safe if limited environment. Trees for them to climb on in their enclosure provides only a partial view of one of the Jaguars from this angle.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Brevard Zoo, Jaguar, Panthera onca
Restless Jaguar
by terranovabay
This Jaguar at the Brevard Zoo could not seem to find a place to settle as it laid down then got up again to pace its enclosure numerous times.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Brevard Zoo, Jaguar, Panthera onca
Skid Row Miami
by terranovabay
It is not all fun in the Sun in Florida as this bleak, forgotten street attests to. From the slide archive.
Categories: Darkroom Photography • Tags: Florida, Miami, Skid Row
Saturday Trail Spanish Moss
by terranovabay
Spanish Moss along the trail at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences reports that Spanish Moss is not a moss but a bromeliad. An epiphyte that grows on others plants without relying on them for nutrients, rather taking their moisture and other nutrients from the air and detritus that comes near it. And contrary to popular belief, Spanish Moss is harmless to the plant it is growing on.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: hike, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Spanish Moss
Friday Trail Flower
by terranovabay
Sam and I came upon this Beggar’s Tick (Bidens alba) along the trail at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). The Florida Wildflower Foundation calls it “…likely the most under-appreciated of all Florida’s native wildflower.”
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Beggar’s Tick, Bidens alba, Florida Wildflower Foundation, hike, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Sam
Thursday Trail
by terranovabay
Early morning hike with Sam through the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA), which is sopping wet from all the recent heavy rainfall.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: hike, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Sam
