Like many places in Florida, St. Augustine has its share of beautiful beach scenes with dunes, lighthouses, and piers. It also has great wildlife opportunities with alligators and water birds of all types. What makes St. Augustine different from other cities is its unique city scenery and history. Photographers delight in the city’s European flavor with the brick-lined streets, the centuries-old buildings and forts, horse-drawn carriages, hidden courtyards, iconic bridges and statues and so much more.
You could spend months photographing St. Augustine and the surrounding area, but since most photographers will not be able to spend this amount of time exploring and photographing the many locations, David Long has developed an e-book to help you get the most out of your time in the Northeast Florida region. The St. Augustine edition of the Self-Guided Photo Workshop starts by walking you through the basics of the city, the general lay of the land, what it offers to photographers, and what makes it different from other cities.
The book will then walk you through not only some of the best locations to photograph but what every photographer needs to know about working at the location. That includes parking, walking time and difficulty, the best time of year, time of day, and weather to visit in, as well as what kind of equipment you’ll need. It’s thorough, clear, and well laid out enough that you won’t be searching through paragraphs and paragraphs of text to find the relevant information.
If you’re a local photographer, you’ll certainly be familiar with the locations David suggests, but it offers valuable tools to make the most of the space around you. And if you’re just visiting, you’ll feel like you have an insider’s guide to finding the beauty in St. Augustine.
David Long is a photographer from New England who has spent the last eight years doing landscape photography from New Hampshire and Vermont to Maine and Massachusetts. For the last four years, he has spent several months every year in St. Augustine and used it as a base for his work in the Southeast.
The St. Augustine Self-Guided Photo Workshop can be purchased online at www.davelongphoto.com/new-products. The e-book is $8. Photography by David Long.
