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Simple Beauty

A moment of deja vu: recognizing beauty at the 4Es trailhead.
Light filtering through Spanish moss in an oak hammock with giant philodedrons in its understory

A moment of Deja vu: discovering a scene that Bart Smith had captured in Along the Florida Trail at the 4Es trailhead.

I've been here before but never in this light, this time of year. We wanted to inspect this section while in Okeechobee for our new Florida Trail guidebook. Warning: it's soggy beyond this hammock.

In my eagerness to capture the light with my iPhone, the image came out blurred. I've averaged out that blur in the image at the top of this page with a grain filter in Photoshop. The original is above.

And here's an oil paint filter to add more mystery to the scene.

A "wet" rendering of the image at the top of the page