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Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Fort De Soto: North Beach After the Storms
Published on Photomigrations, December 2004.
For an avian photographer, Ft. De Soto is one of those places that borders on the magical. It is one of the top birding spots in Florida, possibly the East Coast. Tourists flock here for the beaches, rated #2 in the nation, but photographers and birders flock here for the population of birds. De Soto is a photographer's playground, with an ever changing selection of subjects including birds, reptiles, small mammals, butterflies and other insects. It is also probably one of the best places on Florida's west coast for beach landscape photography and there are numerous areas where wildflowers can be found. You will often find professional photographers here, many conducting workshops on the weekends, herding their wide eyed students through the dunes and mudflats of North Beach. There have been many articles written on De Soto, so it is hard to add anything to the amount of information already out there. That is, until the series of hurricanes that pummeled Florida this year. Ft. De Soto is now a different place than it was. The birds are still there, but the storms have reworked the topography of Ft. De Soto, changing the "when" and "where" of shooting this gem. For someone who shoots there often, stepping out on to the beach for the first time after Hurricane Frances, and then again after Hurricane Jeanne, was simply shocking. It felt like a different park, and required relearning the rhythm of De Soto.
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For an avian photographer, Ft. De Soto is one of those places that borders on the magical. It is one of the top birding spots in Florida, possibly the East Coast. Tourists flock here for the beaches, rated #2 in the nation, but photographers and birders flock here for the population of birds. De Soto is a photographer's playground, with an ever changing selection of subjects including birds, reptiles, small mammals, butterflies and other insects. It is also probably one of the best places on Florida's west coast for beach landscape photography and there are numerous areas where wildflowers can be found. You will often find professional photographers here, many conducting workshops on the weekends, herding their wide eyed students through the dunes and mudflats of North Beach. There have been many articles written on De Soto, so it is hard to add anything to the amount of information already out there. That is, until the series of hurricanes that pummeled Florida this year. Ft. De Soto is now a different place than it was. The birds are still there, but the storms have reworked the topography of Ft. De Soto, changing the "when" and "where" of shooting this gem. For someone who shoots there often, stepping out on to the beach for the first time after Hurricane Frances, and then again after Hurricane Jeanne, was simply shocking. It felt like a different park, and required relearning the rhythm of De Soto.
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