Salt Creek Journal Release

Salt Creek Journal Release

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Bob Devin Jones, reading

Salt Creek Journal Release (Again)

Salt Creek Journal Release (Again) - the release of a journal put together by several semesters' worth of students from Thomas Hallock's Nature Writing class at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Bob Devin Jones, reading

Salt Creek Journal Release Party

Salt Creek Journal Release Party - Release party for Salt Creek Journal.

The project consists of several semesters' worth of writing and photography from Dr. Thomas Hallock's Nature Writing classes at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, as well as from other local writers.

Here are some photos of Dr. Hallock's class, as well as here.

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Bob Devins Jones, reading

Salt Creek Journal Release

Salt Creek Journal Release

Salt Creek Journal Release 3

Salt Creek Journal Release 3 - One more photo from the Salt Creek Journal release at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Salt Creek Journal Release, 2

Salt Creek Journal Release, 2 - Another photo from yesterday's post.

Bob Devins Jones, reading

Salt Creek Journal Release

Salt Creek Journal Release - Several photos from Friday January 19's release party (and readings) for Salt Creek Journal. The project consists of several semesters' worth of writing and photography from Dr. Thomas Hallock's Nature Writing classes at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, as well as from other local writers.

Here are some photos of Dr. Hallock's class, as well as here.

Salt Creek Journal

Salt Creek Journal - Two of my photos dealing with Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida have been published in Salt Creek Journal: Nature, Community, and Place in South St. Petersburg. The book, edited by Hannah Gorski, Alison Yardage and Michelle Sonnenberg (with faculty advisor Thomas Hallock) is from the Tampa Bay Writers Network and University of Florida St. Petersburg.

Marina District from Third Street Bridge



Pollution in Salt Creek, in the Harbordale Neighborhood

Nature Writing Class - "Field" (Or Water) Trip

Nature Writing Class - "Field" (Or Water) Trip

One of the classes Dr. Thomas Hallock teaches is a Nature Writing class at the University of Florida St. Petersburg, usually during the spring. Besides reading nature-related books and articles, students write about nature, especially pertaining to St. Petersburg's Salt Creek, which empties into Bayboro Harbor. There are also several "field trips" (and water trips) to learn about Salt Creek, as well as Florida's waterways. Students also learn about the need for a clean environment; part of the field trips are to help clean waterways.

Here, the students are at the turn-around point for their Salt Creek kayaking/rowing trip.



Students are getting ready to turn around to head back to USFSP.



Heading back.



Here, one of the students reaches to pull garbage out of the water on the way back to USFSP.



Tom Hallock (with white cap) is an enthusiastic professor. His class was one of my favorite classes while at USFSP.



These bags of garbage were taken from part of Salt Creek during Dr. Hallock's 2011 Nature Writing class.

Earth Day

Earth Day - Thomas Hallock teaches at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. One of his classes, taught once a year, is a Nature Writing class. The first time the class was taught, the class held a clean-up of Salt Creek, a waterway that runs from Lake Maggiore to Bayboro Harbor.

Sign from Earth Day cleanup, 2011.



Tom Hallock, talking to the class before the clean up.





Tom Hallock jumped in to help with the Salt Creek clean up.



Nearing the end of the clean up



Some of the garbage collected in the hour-and-a-half on the water.



Tired of garbage in the environment yet?

Kayak Trip on Salt Creek

Kayak Trip on Salt Creek - part of Dr. Thomas Hallock's 2012 Nature Writing class from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Leaving the 4th Street Bridge





Tom Hallock, in white cap

Kayaking, Salt Creek, From Thrill Hill

Kayaking, Salt Creek, From Thrill Hill - From a 2012 outing of University of South Florida (USFSP) nature writing class, taught by Thomas Hallock.

Kayaking on Salt Creek

Kayaking on Salt Creek

Professor Thomas Hallock, of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, with one of his Nature Writing classes on a field (?) trip. During the spring semester, Hallock's class helps clean part of the creek, and reading/writing about the environment.



Students kayaking

Boyd Hill Nature Park and Salt Creek Trip

Dr. Thomas Hallock, an associate professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, will be speaking this evening at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve on "How Do We Find Nature in the City?" He will be joining (joined by?) Tampa Bay Times writer Jeff Klinkenberg, journalist Cathy Salustri, a graduate of USFSP's Florida Studies, and Wendy Joan Biddlecome of Hernando Today/Tampa Tribune. In honor of this evening's talk, I'm posting the following two photos.

The first one is of Tom Hallock on one of the Salt Creek field trips (creek trips?) with his Nature Writing class; the second and third, taken in 2011, were taken at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve. (Sorry, Jeff, Cathy and Wendy. I'm not trying to ignore you guys here; I just don't happen to have photos of you three.)

Tom Hallock (in white cap), on the way back to USFSP, on Salt Creek, in 2012. Photo taken from St. Petersburg's Thrill Hill (aka the Third Street South bridge). Nothing like playing "dueling cameras!"



These two were taken at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve during the spring of 2011.



The color version of Tuesday's photo.

Salt Creek Trip - Heading Back

Salt Creek Trip - Heading Back - One more photo from Tom Hallock's 2012 Nature Writing Class.  Hallock teaches at USFSP.  This photo, as well as the other Salt Creek Field Trip photos, can also be viewed at http://robinshwedoproductions.weebly.com/photo-documentaries.html .

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Heading Back, II

Heading Back, II - second in a series. Continuation from the January 12 photo of Thomas Hallock's Nature Writing class at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Hallock's class is one of the electives that figures in heavily for USFSP's Florida Studies' program. In this photo, a student on the way back to USFSP collects another bit of litter in the clean-up of Salt Creek.  This photo, as well as the other Salt Creek Field Trip photo, can also be viewed at http://robinshwedoproductions.weebly.com/photo-documentaries.html .

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Heading Back, On Salt Creek

Heading Back, On Salt Creek - Thomas Hallock (with white cap) is a professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. One of the classes he taught during several spring semesters was a Nature Writing class. Students would learn how to write about nature while exploring Salt Creek, a waterway from Lake Maggiore and emptying into Bayboro Harbor in St. Petersburg. One of the field trips taken each spring involved taking kayaks and rowboats through the harbor and onto Salt Creek, where students would help collect litter that had been discarded on the waterway. This photo was taken in 2012 from the 4th Street Bridge in South St. Petersburg, where students discussed what they had noticed so far, and where they then turned around for the return trip back to USFSP.

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