28 Years ago, on a Friday afternoon in January of 1996, (Coincidentally sharing the exact dates to January of 2024), on the way from his home in St Helena, CA to visit his girlfriend in San Francisco, accomplished National Geographic photographer and former reporter-photographer for the Kansas City Star, Charles O’Rear,...
Spent Thanksgiving on St George Island in Florida. Caught some amazing time lapses, Gulf Fritillaries, a Great Blue Heron, and this Van Gogh-Esque shot over the gulf.
Due to an oversight on my part, the announced Picture of The Year was ineligible since it was not original content. I sincerely apologize to @Stamets for my mistake. I often do things from my mobile and I missed that the original post was marked Not OC. A bit of egg on my face here....