TRIBUTE TO BUD ADAMS — 1926-2017
PHOTOGRAPHER
Bud was 11 years old when he took this photo as his maternal grandfather,
Silas Williams, fed the black bears he trapped in Sopchoppy in the Panhandle.
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A pileated woodpecker eats a fig off of a Florida strangler fig tree.
Two brood mares, right, consort with a workhorse on Adams Ranch.
This shot of cowboy Jim Go, taken by Bud in the 1930s, was one of his
all-time favorite photos.
BUD ADAMS
A red-shouldered hawk watches for snakes, squirrels, lizards, frogs or small
birds from its perch in a water oak tree covered with resurrection fern.
Bud was an avid
photographer
since the age of
10. He always
had a camera with
him when he was
on the ranch and
continued photographing
even
in his last days.
Starting in 2006,
his photography
was featured
in every edition
of Indian River
Magazine. Some of
the photos featured
appear below.
JON KRAL
BUD ADAMS
BUD ADAMS