{"id":170,"date":"2025-06-07T04:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T04:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serenamower.com\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:25:07","slug":"natural-photography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/?page_id=170","title":{"rendered":"Natural Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I borrowed my mother’s camera when I lived with her during my freshman year of college in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. To keep myself sane, I would drive to nature preserves and take photos of whatever wild life I could find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I have become a frequent traveler of state and national parks from Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine to Florida’s Myakka River State Park and Oscar Scherer State Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great Blue Heron – Ardea herodias<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I got asked in my most recent trip if I was a biologist.
I replied, “I’m just a girl with a camera.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gulf Fritillary – Agraulis vanillae<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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American Alligator<\/strong> – Alligator mississipiensis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gopher Tortoise<\/strong> – Gopherus polyphemus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Northern Cloudywing<\/strong> – Thorybes pylades<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roseate Spoonbill<\/strong> – Platalea ajaja<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bald Eagle<\/strong> – Haliaeetus leucocephalus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Raccoon<\/strong> – Procyon lotor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spinybacked Orbweaver<\/strong> – Gasteracantha cancriformis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I borrowed my mother’s camera when I lived with her during my freshman year of college in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. To keep myself sane, I would drive to nature preserves and take photos of whatever wild life I could find. Since then, I have become a frequent traveler of state and national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenamower.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}