Sundown at Wiggins Pass

 Someone who calls himself Doctor Beach rates the top ten American beaches every year.

My Naples home is two miles south of the #2 beach for 2014, Barefoot Beach, and

two miles north of the #10 beach, Delnor-Wiggins Pass Beach.

Here is Wiggins Pass at sundown.
Lucky me.

Josh

Josh Manring is a photographer, naturalist and author whose Naples gallery shows large format photographs from his travels.  So, what would you call your gallery if you were a

photographer who loves travel?  Journeyman Gallery, of course.

The top photo is from the second time I visited Josh.  The first time, Josh's gallery was closed and he was dressed scruffy, to catch up with stuff.  My camera rested on his glass table.
I liked that photo (below) EXCEPT that one of the pictures behind Josh was
glossy and reflected a car outside the gallery.  So, I came back.
This time he was dressed neatly but not as "artistically."

Would you have ignored the unwanted reflection and shown the bottom photo anyways?
Or would you have gone with the more conventional top photo?

Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club

Two views at the golden hour.

Golf course.

Beach.

Bob

Bob is a bartender at HobNob.  When I asked if I could take his photo.

Bob grabbed a near-by bottle and struck a pose.
(It is Kah tequila . . . the things
I learn for you!)

HobNob

HobNob is a new restaurant and bar on Naples' Fifth Avenue South.

It was listed in the New York Times' 36 Hours in Naples feature in October.

Koharig

Koharig is Armenian.  She lived in Egypt for most of her life before her husband and she had to leave during the turmoil of the past few years.  Today she paints in her Naples studio.

The Lady from Haiti

Rachel was sitting on a bench outside The Lady From Haiti, a gallery on Naples' Fifth Avenue South.

She was dressed in brightly colored clothes, so I asked if she was from Haiti.  "Yes," she answered, and gave me a handout explaining that this is her mother's store.  It has been operating

in Naples for 20 years.  The new Fifth Avenue South store opened a month ago.

The story about the beginnings of The Lady From Haiti is on their website.
It is worth reading.