New Years Day 2014

I love photographing at Howard Park in Tarpon Springs and it's been the inspiration for many of my Floridays images throughout the years. Continuing a tradition of creating new images on New Years Day, I went out to see a very strange sight as the Gulf of Mexico was at the lowest tide I had ever seen. It was quite surreal, like an other-wordly view, as I was able to walk out for several hundred yards on what was usually the bottom of the sea. A strange start to a whole new year.

A New Floridays Image

I love serendipity in my photographic explorations - coming across unexpected subjects such as this castaway bench by the Florida Gulf coast. Very often, I will set out, camera in hand, with one idea in mind and then - wham - something presents itself that just begs to be photographed and suddenly all pre-formed ideas are swept aside.

"Back to Livin' Floridays... "

I am quite pleased that, for the fourth year, a photograph of mine has been selected for inclusion in the ART Of Seeing book. This year, it was an image from my 'Floridays' series, an on-going collection of images created along the Florida Gulf Coast and inspired by the Jimmy Buffett song of the same name.

To view the current 'Floridays' images, please visit:

http://daviddurbak.com/floridays.html