One hot summer’s day, this small steamboat named Florida Belle came up river and stopped at the river landing below Chattahoochee, Florida. There it took old-timers for a ride on the river. It hoped to introduce a new era of steam-boating for tourists. But since these were few and far between in this area, Florida Belle steamed back to Panama City on the Gulf of Mexico where she now enjoys the popular business of transporting summer visitors back and forth across St. Andrews Bay to coastal Shell Island.

I made this photograph with a fish-eye ultra-wide-angle lens because it tended to wrap the tree limbs and roots in a more seductive way around the boat. I also shot the 35mm color photo through a yellow filter to create the appearance of age.