Florida: Where the Wild Things Are

(And I'm not referring to politics. This time.) 

Living in Florida long enough will inspire anyone with an iPhone to become an amateur wild life photographer. 

Recent visitor in my domicile. Definitely made himself at home.

Gotta move fast to keep up with all those little legs. 

You're not a real Floridian until you've stepped on a lizard sans shoes & socks. Trying to avoid them makes even the sanest pedestrian look like Jack Nicholson's OCD sidewalk-crack dodging character in As Good As It Gets. 

We Floridians love our sliding glass doors. It's like a giant TV screen to a live nature show. 

Slightly wild 14-year-old Florida transplant Skratchy passed away last week. He was a very good boy and is greatly missed. 

Kids, Cameras and Words

The Florida Museum of Photographic Art, or FMoPA (or spelled phonetically: Fa-mope-ah), began a new community outreach project for youth in March. Thanks to a grant by The Eckerd Family Foundation, last month a few FMoPA volunteers (including yours truly) developed curriculum and began teaching digital photography and literacy to K-12 students at a Boys and Girls Club in Hillsborough County.

We hope to take this pilot program county-wide next year.

At the end of April we'll have a museum showing of the student's photos and essays. I'll keep you posted on the details.

Photos by Maikel Izquierdo