Old Centerville Road 2: Florida Live Oaks on Old Centerville Road

The Making of the Image, Old Centerville Road 2

In the springtime, I would load the dog in the car and just travel Tallahassee’s backroads, looking for photo locations along the many canopy roads. I stumbled upon this stretch of road with the Florida live oaks one evening and stopped to work the scene.

In the final image, a dirt road forks under the large oak trees that are covered in resurrection ferns and draped in Spanish Moss. The scene is dappled in the warm, evening light.

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Old Centerville Road in Tallahassee, Florida

Old Centerville Road is a scenic road northeast of Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida. Part of Old Centerville Road is paved but it is mostly a red dirt road. The road runs mostly north-south from Centerville/Moccasin Gap in Felkel (near Bradley’s Country Store) on the southern end to the Georgia state line at the northern end. It continues into Georgia as Springhill Road.

The majority of Old Centerville Road is a rural and scenic drive, passing through the area’s plantation lands. It can be paired with Sunny Hill Road, which comes out at Thomasville Road at Iamonia, to create a loop drive, instead of continuing on into Georgia.