Mark Marano

it was beautiful to wake up in the middle of the night to nothing but the continuous sound of the waves of the atlantic ocean crashing into the beach

It feels great to be alive. I just feel this beautiful energy running in me. It’s a little excitement, it’s a little love, it’s a little indescribable. It’s from an amazing weekend! Friday night went to the Kirtan concert, Saturday went to a Bodhi then hung out with Matt, Meredith, Maggie, and Amira, and then rode my bike to shoot this time-lapse at a spot Maggie suggested at the end of North Avenue Beach (somehow I never knew about this [...]

Watched the sunset from Dunedin Causeway and read a little more of I: Reality and Subjectivity before going to see the late showing of I AM the documentary..

and another shot as the little planet fades out..

Decided to go over to Howard Park today to merge two photo techniques together.. long exposures (in daylight) and time-lapse photography.. interesting results.. I remember trying these two techniques over 4 years ago though my memory card dying on me.. this will be interesting to do with different subjects where there is more motion… and I’d like to shoot one in the middle of the day.. Photography techniques are a bit like cooking.. you have these different components and you [...]

shortly after breakfast, getting ready to leave North Peninsula State Park and head toward Atlanta..

decided to head north from where I slept at Lake Apopka to the Ocala National Forest and Palatka.. leaving the parking lot at Ravine State Gardens where I worked, and heading toward Crescent Beach on the east coast.. drove a little south to a spot just south of Marineland:

Biked over to Lansbrook Park after dinner (yes sounds like a routine sometimes! if I end up working all day and sundown is approaching, I hop on my bike and take the 2 mile journey over there)

a couple shots from the Dunedin Causeway, experimenting with exposure settings.. As the sun was going down, I finished reading the first part of The Alchemist (a great book about following your dream/heart).. it’s funny as I had a feeling in the afternoon to take my big battery pack and ac adapter for the camera, though wondered why I thought that as I figured the camera battery would be fine – and then it ran out shortly after I finally [...]

[this one's at a different spot as the night before i tried to help pull a guy's truck out of the sand/water - his back end was in the bay! i got to try 4 low on my truck, though the rope we found wasn't strong enough so he had a tow truck pull him out with a cable]

..and first time-lapse shot from the roof:

here’s a reverse little planet, a stereographic tunnel.. some stitching errors are visible in this one (the wind was blowing constantly and was pretty strong so the clouds in the last shot were in a different position in the sky than in the first shot and couldn’t align properly) here’s the first take on the top shot (before I decided to slow the frame rate down to compensate for the wind)..

Another experiment with a daylight long exposure time-lapse.. exposures easily get into minutes after the sun drops! A couple other more ‘normal’ time-lapses..

I biked over to John Chestnut Park after dinner tonight.. The first spot I thought I wanted to go to had quite a few mosquitos.. I went to another nearby spot thinking maybe it’d be better, and was greeted with a much better view of this brilliant sunset sky and hardly any mosquitos!

Biked down to Lansbrook Park today.. watched the sun set from a picnic bench area I normally don’t sit at..