TRUE EXPRESSIONS PHOTOGRAPHER: JULIAN DIMOCK AND HIS FATHER, A. W. DIMOCK
The Dimocks first experienced tarpon fishing while on the Homosassa River( on the Gulf coast about 165 miles north of Fort Myers) at least several years prior to 1904. A. W. took to the sport like a duck to water. The Book of the Tarpon, which he published in 1911 with ninety-three of Julian’ s photographs, is a classic on the subject and is still in print today. Julian, in his own book, Outdoor Photography, and in a 1907 article,“ Photographing Tarpon,” explains how one photographs leaping tarpon( the answer is: it’ s not easy). In all, Julian took almost five hundred photographs of tarpon fishing. Together father and son provided the standard references for catching and photographing Florida tarpon. This tarpon was caught with a fly rod from a canoe on Barron River( then called Allen’ s River) in the Ten Thousand Islands.
September 5, 1908