Anhingas are a favorite of mine. This fine fellow casts a silhouette against the darkening sky.

Their white and black wing feathers show a dramatic art-deco look as they spread their wings to dry.

Clouds and a baby-blue sky frame this anhinga.

Check out the beak in the enlarged version of the anhinga photos.

Photos of the anhinga beak will simply not define sharply against the sky...

...no matter how close the photographer, or steady the shot, of sharpness of the lens.

Florida pines frame this anhinga...

...and here's two in the same tree... I'm in anhinga photographer's heaven.

These photos were all shot using Fuji print film in a Pentax PZ1p. The lens is the Pentax F* 300/f4.5. Some shots used a Kenko 1.5X teleconvertor also.

The film was scanned using a Nikon Coolscan III film scanner and adjusted in Photoshop. Pages were created with FrontPage Express, and optimized for my 19" monitor...

The great blue heron reflects on life as a bird...

while the limpken adopts a one-legged pose for the photographer.

There was an osprey nest across the railroad tracks from the park.

This osprey flew many fish-gathering missions to the pond in the park.

Right now, he seems to think my white Pentax F* 300/4.5 lens looks very, very edible.

Squirrels are so curious and accustomed to people...

but they still play peek-a-boo and scurry away at the first fast movement.

Here's a closer crop of the shot in the previous panel.

I'm a sucker for cute squirrels...

But there's an explanation...