Sometimes the magic happens just before sunset...

The light in this scene had a shimmering, almost magical quality.
The sun – low in the sky, but not yet setting… its rays beaming forth from behind cloud cover, reflecting off the beautiful stillness of the water. It was as if everything was glimmering with fairy dust.

I felt blessed to be there.

(ps… this was just what I captured with my iPhone… the pictures from my Nikon and Lumix reveal even more of the loveliness!)

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♫ "Golden Gator, Golden Gator, I'd like to go there..." ♫

OK, so that’s not the lyric… but it’s what pops into my head when I look at this photo :)

It was quite a dramatic scene… the setting sun turned the waterway into molten metal just as the gator glided into view.

as in Cousin IT (if Cousin IT was a photographer ;> )

A windy day-before-Valentine’s Day at Loxahatchee… but so nice to be out there, shooting and serenading the local wildlife.
http://beautysuspended.com/wp/2011/02/valentine-sunset-cruise/

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