Ongoing "Road Trip" Personal Experimental Photo Series.
Since 2015, I have been combining tradition (film) camera techniques with modern
non-traditional digital technology in this personal "Road Trip" series.
Using Canon's latest Mark series of cameras and different lenses to create this style of selective focus and texture for this personal series. It's a refreshing change from the day to day grind of the advertising photography. This series has been great to recharge my creativity of seeing and creating different moods with experimental style.
This latest road trip was to South Georgia for a great and chilly camping and kayaking adventure. These images were captured in around the Reed Bingham State Park and Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
Reed Bingham State Park a 375-acre lake is popular with boaters and skiers, and fishing for bass, crappie, catfish and bream is excellent. Paddlers can use canoes and kayaks to explore this beautiful lake lined with fragrant water lilies and tupelo trees and a giant alligator named Frank the Tank! OMG he was huge!
The Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1985 under the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. The refuge lies in the Grand Bay–Banks Lake (GBBL) ecosystem, an area that comprises the second-largest freshwater wetland system in Georgia. The GBBL area contains a number of unique ecological systems that support a variety of plants and animals, including freshwater and terrestrial federal- and state-listed species.
The refuge’s most notable feature is Banks Lake, a shallow blackwater lake studded with cypress trees that supports many fish species, as well as other aquatic animals. It was formed when the Carolina Bay that makes up most of the refuge was dammed over 150 years ago. The refuge contains a variety of habitat types, including cypress swamp, freshwater marsh, uplands, and open water.
