Practice pictures

We are in Fort Myers, Florida this week. Steve is working and I am practicing on my new camera. Today I went for a walk at the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve. We have passed the sign to this public area for years and I often thought of stopping but never got around to it. This was perfect today. It is almost like a rain forest in Florida. There is more than a mile of board walk around three or four lakes. Each area is marked. There is a guided tour on Wednesdays but it was conducted much earlier than I arrived. I walked around twice and saw different things both times.I took lots of pictures on different settings so this afternoon I have been trying to determine what worked well and what didn't work. There are so many settings but I am starting with shutter speeds,ISO settings, and F-stop settings. All of these pictures were taken at the preserve. As I preview this post the blog graphics are doing justice to the quality of the pictures. I am going to have to figure out why.