Mark Hedden

Mark Hedden is a photographer, writer, and semi-professional birdwatcher. He has lived in Key West for more than 25 years and may no longer be employable in the real world. He is also executive director of the Florida Keys Audubon Society.

KEY WEST ARTIST DISCOVERED PARTS OF HERSELF IN HER NEW WORK

Some time after Hurricane Irma in 2017, artist Sally Binard found herself sitting on the floor of her new place, chisel in hand, staring...

WILD THINGS: THE SUBTLE GENIUS OF SWALLOW-TAILED KITES

The kite shot out from nowhere, just above the road, doing something of a bootlegger turn, its face angled one way, its body sliding another....

WILD THINGS: THE ART OF BLENDING IN

The wind made it difficult to think. Tilt your head the wrong way and your hat would fly off and tumbleweed down the beach....

WILD THINGS: SCUTES & SHITE-POKES AT THE BLUE HOLE

I was up at the Blue Hole on Big Pine the other day, standing on the platform, staring at the gator in the shallow...

WILD THINGS: PRESERVING THE SPIRIT OF KEY WEST’S FRAN FORD

I was thinking about Fran Ford the other day. Possibly because I was sitting on a bench in the shade of a giant ficus...

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