Outdoors
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TO CAPTURE A STORM – Photographer Susan Gunn
BY MIKE FENDER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE FENDER AND SUSAN GUNN Nature’s beauty and tranquility can turn into drama and danger…
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A Helping Hand for Nature: TURTLE WATCH IN PANAMA CITY BEACH
BY VAL SCHOGER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE FENDER Summertime is the busiest time for Northwest Florida’s beaches. Hundreds of thousands of…
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A Helping Hand for Nature: REDFISH RELEASE IN PORT ST. JOE
Story and photography Mike Fender The waters off Port St. Joe in Northwest Florida are a fisherman’s dream—at first glance.…
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A Helping Hand for Nature: RESTORING SEA OATS AND DUNES IN MEXICO BEACH
BY VAL SCHOGER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE FENDER Storms have a devastating long-lasting impact. When Hurricane Michael made landfall in Mexico…
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Explore the Coast: A Seat With a View
Northwest Florida’s cerulean waters, its white beaches that become meringue-colored at sunset, silhouettes of tall longleaf pine trees along lake…
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Explore the Coast: The Underwater Museum of Art
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SPRING RUN MEDIA AND WE CREATE LIFT The Gulf of Mexico is a destination for diving and snorkeling…
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ROAD TO CALIFORNIA: Patricia McNeal
BY BRITTANY HAWES PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE FENDER AND PATRICIA MCNEAL Patricia McNeal: athlete, grandmother, stroke survivor. On December 22, 2013,…
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CAMELLIAS: Jewels of the Winter Garden
BY JODY WOOD-PUTNAM With many of the mature trees in my garden uprooted or broken after Hurricane Michael, I was…
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EVERY TWIST AND TURN – APALACHICOLA RIVER
BY JACKIE KOLK WITH THANKS TO DAN TONSMEIRE, RIVERKEEPER EMERITUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY H AROLD BRAMTON , MARY JESSICA FASICK, ABBY…
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TATE’S HELL and the Dwarf Cypress
BY JACKIE KOLK PHOTOGRAPHY BY HAROLD BRAMTON “I just came from Hell.” Legend has it those were Cebe Tate’s last words…
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