A weekend in St. Augustine, FL provided a ton of activity with busy nest building in the rookery at Alligator Farm Zoological Park. A fantastic opportunity to photograph different types of egrets such as the Little Blue Heron above.

The St. Augustine area also offers some wonderful seascapes like the beach at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park with its marvelous green covered rocks.

A drive down the coast south of St. Augustine is Flagler Beach featuring a pier that provides a great graphic counterpoint to the early morning sea and sandy beach.

More images from this trip can be found here.

Charleston, SC in springtime, is the place to be. Wildly popular with photographers, the area offers amazing beauty and color. One of my very favorites places to photograph in this area is Botany Bay in the Edisto Island area. This park has a ‘boneyard’ beach where dead trees stand against the ocean waves, until they are knocked down and wash up on the beach. The compositions are plentiful and the sunrises and sunsets are spectacular.

The image below, of the same tree as the image above, demonstrates the variety of compositions available at Botany Bay.

Charleston also features a number of southern plantations with incredible gardens. The scenes really showcase the south and its tranquil environment. This image below was taken at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, famous for its spring beauty.

More photographs from my recent trip to Charleston are located here.