Loggerhead Lighhouse, Loggerhead Key, Dry Tortugas National Park, Little Africa Reef, Florida Keys, Ocean, Underwater, Landscape, Photograph, Photographer, Richard Auger
Loggerhead Lighhouse, Loggerhead Key, Dry Tortugas National Park, Little Africa Reef, Florida Keys, Ocean, Underwater, Landscape, Photograph, Photographer, Richard Auger

Watcher of Paradise

Loggerhead Key Dry Tortugas

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In the summertime, I primitive-camped for 3 nights and 4 days at Dry Tortugas National Park, located 50 miles off Key West.  In the brutal mid-July heat, I kayaked 3 miles, each way, across the open Atlantic ocean from Fort Jefferson to Loggerhead Key.  I brought along my new underwater housing, and snorkeled around a colorful, pristine reef on the west side of the island.  After hours of shooting over 2500 photographs, and about to give up, I finally captured a perfectly timed under/over image with 2 large tarpon fish, the Loggerhead Lighthouse, some nice clouds, the reef (Little Africa), and a calm wave split down the middle.  This was the most exhausting, well planned, and well timed photograph I’ve ever created.

 

Below is a behind-the-scenes photo of the artist with the type of camera used to create this image.

Richard Auger the Photographer

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