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Despite living in the Tampa area for my whole life today was my first visit to Hillsborough High School. Hillsborough High School is one of the South’s oldest high schools. Although the school probably dates closer to 1880, a room over a Franklin Street livery stable in 1885 is recognized […]
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited National Park in the United States. I have only been once since I started photography and enjoyed the week I spent there. There is a lot that can be seen even from the road, but to see more, and get away […]
I’m feeling lazy tonight so I’m just going to throw up a few cute pictures of baby birds. These are a few more from my outing to the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Florida where I was able to photograph a sandhill crane family of two parents and two […]
In 2005 my sister finished a 2 year stint in the Peace Corps in Niger. I met her at the end of her term and we traveled for 2 weeks in Niger and then had to fly out through Morocco and so spent one week traveling there. We went to […]
Back to St Petersburg tonight. The first shot is of the Salvador Dali Museum and the palm trees surrounding it. This was taken with the fisheye lens. The moon was in the location and the size as seen in this photo, however I masked in a more detailed moon photo […]
These two photos of downtown Tampa were both taken while looking for new angles of downtown during the time I had a rented fisheye lens. The first shot is taken from the University of Tampa at night. I composed the shot so that the artwork would sit between the downtown […]
Manatee Village Historical Site is the kind of place HDR was made for. The village has a good variety of preserved and restored buildings including the 1903 Wiggins General Store, the Fogarty Boatworks, the 1912 Settler’s House, the 1887 church, the 1860 courthouse, and the 1908 schoolhouse. All of the […]
Today I don’t really have any theme or story or message. These are just 2 of my Pittsburgh photos that I have been working on. The 1st is from the University of Pittsburgh. It is an interior shot of the Cathedral of Learning. The Cathedral of Learning is a 535 […]
The Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida are a man-made wetlands that is a water reclamation area for Palm Beach County Utilities. There is a 3/4 mile boardwalk that provides good access for photographers and other nature watchers. The highlight at Wako is probably the Great Blue Heron nests which […]
Everglades National Park is definitely one of my favorite places in Florida to visit. In terms of photography there are some cool Florida landscapes, lots of very tame birds, a lot of gators, and the chance to see something special like a Florida Panther. Any visit to the Everglades should […]