"Ossabaw Island Sunset" was photographed on Ossabaw Island, Georgia in November of 2017.
Ossabaw Island is a remote and mostly undeveloped Coastal Georgia barrier island located between Wassaw Island and St. Catherine's Island. The only access to the island is by boat. The island has a unique history dating back 4000 years with the Guale Indians and later the Creek Indians. It has had Spanish settlers as well as English settlers.It has been used as farmland and for timber. It also had plantations before the Civil War and smaller scale farms after the war. It has been used as a hunting retreat while owned by a group of wealthy business owners until is was purchased by Dr. Henry Norton Torrey in 1924.
In 1961 Eleanor Torrey West created the Ossabaw Island Foundation and launched the Ossabaw Island Project as an artistic and scholarly retreat. In 1978, while no longer able to subsidize the the artistic and scientific activity on the island, Mrs. West sold the island to the State of Georgia as a Heritage Preserve with the understanding that the island would only be used for "natural, scientific and cultural study, research and education, and environmentally sound preservation, conservation and management of the Island’s ecosystem".
So, the island is now a heritage preserve. The forces of nature are allowed to play out on this island with very little intervention from man. These forces of nature are evident and can easily be found and viewed, especially since the area has been hit by two major hurricanes in the last two years.
This photo represents the natural look and feel of Ossabaw in it's glorious, wonderful, and awe inspiring natural state. I think it would make a great fine art "ready to hang" wall art piece for anyone who loves the wildness of Coastal Georgia and especially Ossabaw Island.