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Philip Cardella

Philip Cardella

Miami, FL

Wanna be historian and photographer. Father to two kids, a dog and two cats. Partner to the best person on Earth.

Bugs of the Everglades

Bugs of the Everglades

These are some of my favorite bugs in the Everglades images from 2024. I'm curious: which ones do you like? There are seven of them, so they form a grid. If the top left image of the blue dragonfly is row 1, column 1, then that one is

Florida gators and other reptiles of the Everglades

Florida gators and other reptiles of the Everglades

These are some of my favorite reptiles in the Everglades images from 2024. I'm curious: which ones do you like? There are nine of them, so they form a grid. If the top left image of the gator looking to the right of the camera view, mostly underwater,

Florida Beaches

Florida Beaches

These are some of my favorite beach images from 2024. I'm curious: which ones do you like? There are nine of them, so they form a grid. If the top left image of lifeguard booth in the foreground and sunrise in the background is row 1, column 1,

Mountains

Mountains

These are some of my favorite mountain images from 2024. I either took or scanned all of these in 2024--Rainier (the upright image with the lake in the foreground) was a photo I took on film 20 years ago and scanned this summer. I'm curious: which ones do

Birds of the Everglades

Birds of the Everglades

These are some of my favorite images from 2024 in Florida's Everglades National Park. I'm curious, which ones do you like? There's nine of them so they form a grid. If the top left bird (an anhinga aka snake bird) is row 1 column

Black Civil War History in Florida

Black Civil War History in Florida

If you like history, especially American history, chances are you've seen the movie Glory, starring Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and a young Andre Braugher, about one of America's first Black Regiments, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The movie depicts the heroism of the unit during

Dozens of Florida's workers die every year from the heat. Does anyone care?

Dozens of Florida's workers die every year from the heat. Does anyone care?

Yesterday, November 7, 2023, Miami-Dade County Commissioners considered a heat ordinance that would be the first county-level ordinance in the nation to protect workers from excessive heat. Though the thermometer rarely, if ever, tops 100 degrees in Miami, over 100 days in Miami-Dade County every year have a heat index