I relish the photos I have been able to capture of different landscapes and creatures since moving to Colorado. The prairie dogs, pronghorns, mountain goats, bighorn sheep and longspur birds found in high altitudes with low humidity were not my normal subjects when based in Pensacola FL. But when I returned to my car with a sweat-soaked shirt after a hike along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, it seemed as if I had done more to earn a good shot than I do after a comparable walk in low humidity. The humidity does seem to usurp all available ergs from the body in a short time period.
I have just returned from a trip to Pensacola to visit friends there. I stopped at some of my high humidity haunts in Louisiana on the drive to FL and at some of my high humidity haunts on the Bolivar Peninsula in TX on the drive back to Colorado. The photos of Purple Gallinule found below were taken at Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.