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Back in the USA: Florida. Florida, for now, is the last location I´m showing my images on OceanSun. As a high school student, I began to learn basic photography, beginning with my father´s camera in the school camera club. Since then, like a trickle of water takes its path, to join others, forming a stream, traveling from highlands, passing bends, waterfalls, eventually finding its way to the sea, so has been my experience with photography, and similarly, with my life in general. Studying diverse subjects in college, military service, working in different professions, and careers, I´ve also traveled a winding path through my life, directed by momentum and time, making efforts to move forward, attempting to reach my own goals. Photography has always been a mainstay with me, as one central force and interest, involved in defining, and pointing myself towards a fullfillment of my own self expression.

After graduating in Fine Arts, in photography at the University of Calgary, in Canada and working as professional photographer is Seattle, I relocated to Florida in 1985 to be near my father, who had retired there. Florida was a big change for me, being a semi-tropical state with high heat and humidity most of the year, and a mixture of transplanted people from all over the US, Canada, and some original, native born, "crackers" as the Floridian natives are often called. Prior to the invention of the air conditioner, Florida was home mostly to farmers and the Miccosukee and Seminole Indian tribes. After World War II, there was a large influx of people, and the population, estimated at over 17 million, now (2007), has grown immensely, with much of it concentrated on the coasts. It´s beautiful place to take photographs, enjoy nature and the outdoors, having more than 300 sunny days a year, thus comes it's nickname "the Sunshine State". Recently, the Florida and Caribbean region have been host to multiple hurricaines and storms, and may well gain another nickname, which I´ll leave to the readers imagination.

After moving to Florida, I returned to university, and became a teacher, taking me to know new countries, languages and cultures often in remote corners of the world. (as I write this, I am in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.) I am grateful to all the people I´ve had the pleasure to know, and who've sometimes suffered, to put up with me, to serendipity, to education, to experiences, and to coincidences, that have all contributed to make an interesting life unfold before me. Thank you, everyone and everything! Lastly, here are few photos of what I call, home, when I´m in America.........

Photographs and text by John O'Heron  ©2007

Sarasota, Quiet Before the Storm, 1998	Everglades Camping, 1993
Miami River, Downtown 1998	Florida Girl, Clearwater 1990