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Fine Art Print Sale. See https://tinyurl.com/ydnfmjqv for details Prints of my Pine Island Sound Aerials and Fish Shacks collections are on sale for a limited time. A new larger size print is being offered for the first time this year. For all the details click:

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Fine Art Print Sale. See https://tinyurl.com/ydnfmjqv for details Prints of my Pine Island Sound Aerials and Fish Shacks collections are on sale for a limited time. A new larger size print is being offered for the first time this year. For all the details click:

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Best of the Best Fine Art Print Sale

Best of the Best Fine Art Print Sale

The Third Annual Fine Art Holiday Print Sale is a curation of some of my most popular images at substantially reduced prices for a limited time. This is a once a year opportunity.

See my earlier post of a brief story behind the prints. And please click here to see the entire collection and all the details.

Thank you.

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The Project

Over the past dozen years or so I spent many hours photographing the historic Fish Shacks in Pine Island Sound in coastal Southwest Florida. These ionic structures fascinate me. I would try to imagine the rugged but independent lifestyle of those who lived and worked there. I wanted the images to give the viewer a sense of solitude and a oneness with nature these fishermen surely felt. Of the thousands of images curated just ten told my story. The best of the best.

The Shacks

Located on an oyster bar near Captiva Pass, the shacks were home to commercial fishermen, and often their families, in the early 1900s. Life for the fishermen was very basic with no modern conveniences such as electricity or plumbing.  Ice boats from the Punta Gorda Fish Company would deliver ice to the shacks and pick up the day’s catch. Another boat would collect the fishermen’s kids and deliver them to Pine Island where they would catch the bus to school on the mainland. In the afternoon the long trip home would begin. By mid-Twentieth Century many of the shacks were abandoned as fish stocks dwindled and families wanted homes with some modern conveniences. Over the succeeding years, hurricanes claimed many. Only six remain.

Just in time for the Holidays prints of the ten images plus many aerial photos of Pine Island Sound and her Islands are available at substantially discounted prices for a limited time. Now is the time to collect memories for yourself and share them with others.

Click here and ORDER YOUR SHACK today.

  The Fish Shacks: A fine art folio The Project Over the past dozen years or so I spent many hours photographing the historic Fish Shacks in Pine Island Sound in coastal Southwest Florida.

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Welcome to the Third Annual Fine Art Print Sale. This year we are featuring 27 iconic aerial views of Pine Island Sound and several never before seen Fine Art images of the historical Fish Shacks. The images have been curated from my portfolio of thousands of photographs I have made of the past decade. This is a very personal project for me. Have spent many happy hours over the past decade or so photographing and fishing the waters of beautiful Pine Island Sound. Please take a few minutes to look over the images. They are the best of the best. THE DETAILS:

All prints are offered at a 33% discount. Regularly $75.00 each

Image size: 16″ x 9.5″ and printed on 19: x 13″ paper.

All printing is done personally by me using museum quality, archival inks, and paper.

All prints are personally signed.

Offer ends soon.

Shipped Priority Mail in a mailing tube.

Larger print sizes are available. Please contact me with your requirements.

This is a limited time offer. ORDER NOW.

Third Annual Fine Art Holiday Print Sale Welcome to the Third Annual Fine Art Print Sale. This year we are featuring 27 iconic aerial views of Pine Island Sound and several never before seen Fine Art images of the historical Fish Shacks.

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The Little Red Shack ~ Where in the World

Where in the World? A little red shack on stilts, sitting on a sand bar in Pine Island Sound, in Southwest Florida, USA.

Uniquely Pine Island, the Fish Shacks of Pine Island Sound are relics of bygone days when commercial fishing was a way of life. These stilt houses located between Pineland and Captiva Pass were home to fishermen and their families. They would fish for mullet or pompano by night and repair their nets and rest during the day. Their catch would be sold to fish companies that would call on each shack by boat. The children would be collected each day by the "school boat" and be taken to Pine Island where they would catch their school bus for the long ride to the mainland and school.

A favorite photo subject of mine, the shacks are accessible only by water. For me it is an hour boat ride, but well worth the effort. Six shacks are all that remain of a once vibrant commercial fishing industry in Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. Most are rather ordinary looking but one stands out. The Red Shack is by far the most interesting photographically. Painted a bright red, it would seem to be the oldest one with its painted metal roof, separate outhouse, and water reservoir. Built on an oyster bar it has a very long pier stretch out to deeper water and a favorite resting place for the many pelicans, cormorants, gulls, and skimmers in the area. The photos were taken with a wild angle lens, hence the distortion and skewing.

  Photos of all the Fish Shacks of Pine Island Sound are here.

Zoom out on the satellite image of the Red Shack to see where in the world.

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