On a kayak tour organized by the Wild Space Gallery in late June, I glided over a stretch of the Chassahowitzka River, just past the Seven Sisters Springs. As I paddled by, I saw huge clumps of algae floating in the water. This used to be just a pristine, crystal clear spring. You could see clear down to the bottom. Now it looks kind of green.
This is a little different than what Benjamin Dimmitt first photographed 20 years ago.
Dimmitt, a Clearwater native, has lugged his medium-format film camera to places like this in Citrus County for decades. His photographs of the same place shown years apart are on display at St. Petersburg’s Wild Space Gallery through the end of July…