After receiving excellent advice (and perhaps a gentle push :-) from the forum's members I decided to give LF a try. I will stay in Miami from mid-January to mid-February and would like to photograph swamp cypresses. Cliché or not, what I have in mind are basically those tree trunks standing in water. The reason: at home I do research for a coal mine which formed 5 million years ago from such a swamp and would like to do pictures on a "what it was like" theme. I have purchased the "Exploring wild South Florida" guidebook so I basically know where to go for cypresses, but would much appreciate any tips on special locations which would allow for comfortable day-long access and work, possibly also in the "sweet" early and late hours. I presume one of the tourist boardwalks could be the best option to get close? I was otherwise promised canoe trips into the Everglades, but I expect LF won't be so practical for that (will take 35mm gear as well).
I'd also be grateful for any tips on where a budding LF photographer of landscape/nature persuasion could go in Miami for practice and not be harassed by the "commercial photography not allowed" crowd. I'll probably stay in Coral Gables and work in the Geodesy lab of the University, which is on Virginia Key. And is there a reputable lab in the area which would process 4x5 chromes?
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