An escape to Sarasota in early March is the reward for surviving a New England February. The Gulf coast light is soft and warm well into the morning, which is forgiving for wildlife work. The beaches at Siesta Key have that powdery quartz sand that stays cool underfoot even at midday.
The wildlife did most of the work here. An alligator sunning itself, shorebirds working the tide line, and a conch shell sitting in the right place. This trip landed just before everything shut down that spring of 2020, which gives the pictures a strange quality of normalcy in hindsight.
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