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Sharing a few images from my recent visit to Amelia Island and Cumberland Island...

The Gathering Tree on Cumberland Island

Grand Avenue, the main, and only, road on Cumberland Island. The sand road meanders through the live oaks, spanish moss, and palmettos.

A flyover by a flock of white pelicans.

Amelia Island is full of hidden streams, ponds and other bodies of water where lots of wildlife live. Here, a stately Great Blue Heron, and his reflection, wait patiently.

"Boneyard Beach" is filled with the skeletons of trees which have fallen victim to daily tides battering the shoreline.

A juvenile alligator pokes his head through the duckweed-covered water.

 

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A Legend...

Jack Corn, a legend photojournalist, died this week at the age of 96. As an award-winning photographer for The Tennessean, he touched countless lives. Following that long career, he taught photojournalism at Western Kentucky University, then went on to serve at the Director of Photography at the Chicago Tribune.

His retirement years were spent on his farm which was a wildflower mecca. I took this photo of him on one of his daily walks through the vast carpet of Blue-Eyed Marys and other wildflowers.

To me, the ultimate eulogy applies to Jack: "To know someone has reached the pinnacle of his chosen career, then still be able to say, 'he was an even greater person'." 

 

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