Imagine, if you will, the land of rivers, lakes and springs long before Juan Ponce de León, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and Hernando DeSoto explored the virgin wilderness we now call Florida.
Imagine the vast wildness of the woods, the azure sky filled with cumulus clouds and the dense undergrowth of the swamps, filled with creatures, both great and small.
That is what Gainesville nature photographer John Moran does every time he picks up his Canon camera and journeys into the exploration of his adopted homeland.