by Stephen Conrad | Nov 3, 2019 | Conservation
In 1999, Mayor John Delaney of Jacksonville, Florida, created a land preservation program that would become the largest in Florida’s history. The goal of the program was to preserve environmentally sensitive areas within Jacksonville’s vast city limits,...
by Stephen Conrad | Sep 27, 2019 | Musings
Welcome to the fully redesigned stephenconrad.com. The new site represents much of the work I’ve done over the past thirty years, from the Chattahoochee National Forest in 1987, to the completion of my Other Worlds project in 2018. Other Worlds is the...
by Stephen Conrad | Jul 3, 2018 | Musings
In 1999, while traveling along the shore of a little harbor village called Mullaghmore, in County Sligo, Ireland, I came across an old white van parked beside the road. Next to the van was a shirtless man, his tripod-mounted video camera pointed at the rocky shoreline...
by Stephen Conrad | Feb 12, 2016 | Musings
I’ve been making trips back to Big Talbot Island lately, reflecting on the changes to the area since I began photographing there many years ago. My beloved rock-like peat formations at one spot, which once resembled small cliffs, have been crumbled by tides and...
by Stephen Conrad | Jan 4, 2016 | Musings
Lately, I’ve been thinking about some of the early influences that led me to landscape photography. Having spent my childhood obsessed with drawing, not photography, I remember being enamored with the work of Andrew Wyeth. His realist paintings of the coast of...
by Stephen Conrad | Feb 23, 2015 | Musings
The Santa Fe River begins near Keystone Heights, Florida, travels west, and empties into the Suwanee River. At one point, however, within the boundaries of O’Leno State Park, the river disappears into a sinkhole and then reappears three miles downstream. This is...
by Stephen Conrad | Jan 1, 2015 | Musings
“You can’t know where you’re going, unless you know where you have been.” I’ve been away for a while. Life intrudes sometimes and priorities must change, but through it all we strive to bring all things into balance. I found this old...
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