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A couple of weeks ago I was down in Florida for an event called FotoFusion. This is put on every year by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in West Palm Beach. I will be doing a number of workshops there in upcoming months, including workshops on shooting video with a DSLR and using Lightroom as a true darkroom.

Whenever I am there, I love to go to the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. There is a great little boardwalk there through a cypress swamp. While I love the location, it can be challenging photographically. It is a place filled with detail, filled with "stuff" that you somehow have to make sense of in order to find interesting photographs. 

One way to deal with any complex location like this is to forget trying to get wide and overall shots. Go for the details. But even then, that can be a problem because there is so much stuff all around them that it can be hard to isolate the details. One way of working such a location is to use a telephoto and shoot wide open as shown in this short video on location in Loxahatchee.