More Boneyard Beach Florida

More here and to come from this wonderful find on the northeast Florida coast, just north of Jacksonville.

Cheers,

C. S.

Florida Coquina

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

Coquina is a sedimentary rock composed mostly of seashell material which becomes cemented over time. I found this sample serving as a wall on St George Street in St Augustine, Florida. My post last week featured the Castillo de San Marcos fort, which was originally constructed out of coquina.

Fort builders favored conquina stonework because of its ability to absorb cannonball impacts. In fact, often an embedded cannonball was recovered and then fired back at attacking forces. For the best viewing experience, click to view a high-resolution version.

Cheers,

C. S.

Castillo de San Marcos

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, Florida is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States. Construction started in 1672 to replace the previous wooden fort after raids by English privateers in 1668, when Florida was part of the Spanish Empire. The photo shows the west side of the fort and moat, the east side sits on the Matanzas Bay waterfront.

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Cheers,

C. S.

Spanish St Vignette

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

Found this cool window vignette walking along Spanish St in St Augustine on a rainy afternoon.

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C. S.

Boneyard Beach Florida

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

Boneyard Beach is a photographer’s paradise, it’s an unusual stretch of coastline along the Nassau Sound in Big Talbot Island State Park just northeast of Jacksonville, Florida. Famous for its 30-foot bluffs and massive, bleached skeleton driftwood trees scattered across the sand.

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Cheers,

C. S.

1973 VW Pop-Top Camper Abstract

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

Classic 1973 VW pop-top camper on Huguenot Beach in Jacksonville, FL. For the best viewing experience, click to view a high resolution version.

Cheers,

C. S.

Haga District

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

This photo was taken from the charming Haga Nygata pedestrian street looking up Västra Skansgatan street looking towards Skansparken public park in the historic Haga District of Gothenburg, Sweden. My wife and I enjoyed their famous freshly baked cinnamon buns!

Cheers,

C. S.

Live Oaks on Oak Island

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

Cross-section of one of the few remaining natural live oak tree barriers on Oak Island, North Carolina. Most of these windswept oaks and wax myrtle shrub protective barriers have long disappeared due to beach home development.

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C. S.

Sandbar Fishing and Wave Theory

Photography, Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr.

Anglers fishing on a sandbar, accessed by boat, between Oak Island and Holden Beach, North Carolina in the Intracoastal Waterway. As the incoming tide starts to consume the sandbar, I found the aerial wave/water/sand patterns fascinating. I looked up wave theory, it goes pretty deep (pun intended)!

Cheers,

C. S.

Holden Beach Aerial Abstract

Photography, Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr.

Aerial photo of the eastern end of Holden Beach, North Carolina. The right-side inlet separates Holden from Oak Island Beach. The composition is a composite, panorama of two adjacent captures from my Mavic 3 drone.

Cheers!

C. S.