My Naples community is an Audubon Certified Sanctuary. I spend some of my time wandering the place with my camera.
A black vulture couple shared some quiet time.
An alert gator.
A man was photographing a heavily tattooed woman with green hair. When the man was finished. I asked the woman if I could also take some photos of her.
After a couple of quick photographs, I asked the man what his pics were for. "We just got married," he said. I nearly fell over. The man had short gray hair, no apparent tattoos, a white shirt and tie and neat dark pants. He looked like a banker on his lunch hour.
We never know, do we?
Lyla is tall and thin, with legs that go on and on. She had a modeling contract for three years but walked away from it. These days Lyla only does occasional runway work.
But not really black and white. Looking down from the second floor at the outdoor dining area of Ridgway Bar and Grill on 13th Avenue South in Naples.
Naples has a new independent bookstore, Books on Third. It is on the second floor, above a popular and busy restaurant on Third Street South. I like independent bookstores and try to support them, but I thought this would be a difficult location to survive. I was very pleased to see that Books on Third is well stocked and had lots of visitors on an otherwise quiet midweek morning.
They have a big area for children's books, including an array of girls' fantasy costumes to keep the girls entertained while Mom shops for books.
Dennis Goodman is a fine arts photographer with a gallery in the arts district at the edge of Olde Naples. He focuses on large scale images of wildlife and seashore scenes. I see Dennis often at the outdoor art shows in southwest Florida. I photographed this through the window when his gallery was closed.
I'm glad to see another fast food shop trying to make a go of this old Dairy Queen store on Route 41.
Kinsale Golf Club is a new golf club being built in Naples. It is a mile south of me, across the street from Kalea Bay (shown yesterday), and by the same developer. To create the golf course, they tore up a big forested preserve that the developer had previously committed to leave in a "forever wild" state.
Kalea Bay is a mile south of me in Naples. They are now completing their fifth and final condo tower, each of which has 22 floors.
I had to do some clever navigation to get behind this tourist trolley in time for the traffic lights to turn red so I could take a few photographs.
The vehicle is owned by the Hoffman Group of Companies, another Naples business that has its tentacles in high end real estate and numerous other businesses.
We are just days into November, but holiday decorations are already up?
Everyone decorates for the holidays, but businesses and homeowners associations don't do it themselves. They turn to third party contractors. I guess the one this community uses is booked up later.
Many Bonita Springs stores are also decorated for Halloween. Huge skeletons are popular, but I didn't like more of my skeleton photographs, so I deleted them.
On Monday I saw some excellent black and white photographs at Naples Art. I showed them yesterday.
Those black and white photos got me in the mood to try some of my own.
Naples Art's current exhibition shows works by local artists. A fine arts photographer, James Prior, exhibited images made on New York subways. His exhibition is called Life Beneath the Ruins.
