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LYNN WON THE
PIE Center Photo

Contest held by
University of Florida/

THROUGH THE LENS
Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences
of a Rancher’s Wife
(UF/IFAS).

Lynn Scarborough Talks About

Her Love of the Landscape

story by CHERYL ROGERS

photography by LYNN SCARBOROUGH

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YNN SCARBOROUGH was raised in Fort Lauderdale, with Atlantic beaches, shopping
malls and restaurants. But she has discovered living in Central Florida ofers perks of its own: he

tranquility of a morning sunrise on the ranch, the majesty of standing palms, and wildlife up close.

As wife to Lake Placid rancher Jack “I just love taking pictures of anything,
Scarborough, the 61-year-old enjoys especially wildlife,” Lynn explains. “I have got

the beauty and solitude of the 2700-acre so many pictures of birds, it’s unbelievable.”
Scarborough Farms, where their neighbors Using her Nikkon digital camera, Lynn

are cattle, birds, bears, alligators, wild hogs, may take hundreds of pictures on her photo
and coyotes. “It’s like a preserve out here,” expeditions, culling through them and

she says. Riding her Electric Bad Boy Buggy, keeping only two dozen or so. In addition

a battery-operated golf-styled cart, Lynn rides to the subjects in her own backyard, she may
the ranch photographing sunrises, any of 79 shoot rodeos or air shows. Aterwards, she

species of birds, gorgeous Florida wood and likes editing her photos and enhancing them
pasturelands, and whatever she may come with computer sotware.

across—from a bird, to a black bear or hog.
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