Highway to Heaven

① memo 20181211 ~ Highway to Heaven ~ Overseas Highway, last month, Florida Keys

Mangroves of Florida Keys

① memo 20181210 ~ Mangroves of Florida Keys ~ Gulf of Mexico from Middle Torch Key , last month, Florida Keys

Sunbathing in the Florida Keys

① memo 20181209 ~ Sunbathing in the Florida Keys ~ Great white heron (I believe) sunbathing in the mangroves of Middle Torch Key , Florida Keys , last month. ‘Sunbathing’ either to warm itself or trying to lose heat ..

Looe Key Reef Trip

① memo 20181208 ~ Looe Key Reef Trip ~ Boat trip last month starting in the waterways of Ramrod Key and into the ocean to the beautiful Looe Key coral reef for scuba diving with underwater camerawoman Diane Lundy (divemaster Looe Key Dive Center http://www.diveflakeys.com ) using a GoPro Hero 3 – spotting dolphin (from the boat) , Goliath Groupers , sharks, stingray, barracuda, puffer fish, huge Spiney Caribbean lobster , sergeant barrel fish etc. Editing in Final Cut Pro X.

Scuba Skills Update

① memo 20181207 ~ Scuba Skills Update ~ I have been diving since 1991 (starting in Gozo, Malta) but my last dive was 12 years ago (dive #57 in Bonaire) so I got a Scuba Refresher last month from Diane Lundy from the Looe Key Dive Center in Ramrod Key ( http://www.diveflakeys.com ) in their pool in the morning before diving in the ocean in the afternoon on the Looe Key Reef, Florida Keys

Shorebirds

① memo 20181206 ~ Shorebirds ~ Birds on the shore of Bahia Honda Key last month, Florida Keys

Blackface

① memo 20181205 ~ Blackface ~ One of Al Jolson’s blackface acts performed by the dutch variety show artist Heintje Davids as shown in dutch movie theaters in 1930 in the ‘Polygoon’ cinema news. The blackfaced Al Jolson starred in the very first feature length ‘talkie’ (sound film) The Jazz Singer in 1927 – with a synchronized recorded music, singing and speech. In France , right after the liberation, Robert Clary was known as L’Al Jolson français.
Footage thanks to the Open Images (openbeelden.nl). audiovisual archive of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.