Travel

Travel photos (anything outside of home area of Tampa, St Petersburg)

Tiki Bar Sunrise
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Cocoa Beach, Florida

Decided to look for a new sunrise location since I am frequently near the East Coast of Florida. I decided to try the Cocoa Beach Pier as I have never been there. I was pretty happy with the decision. The sunrise was nice although I could have used a few […]

Omni William Penn Hotel Lobby
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Back to Pittsburgh

We are returning to Pittsburgh in a couple of weeks for another wedding so I thought I would add a few more Pittsburgh pictures from our last trip. On our first trip we were lucky enough to stay at the Omni William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. It was a […]

Tyrannosaurus Rex
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To HDR or not to HDR

There are a lot of photographers out there that do not like HDR photography. The complaints are that it is over saturated, overdone, and cartoonish. So what? There are a lot of photographers and I think a lot of the general public that love HDR photographs. These images from Dinosaur […]

Pine Road Sunrise
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Appalachicola National Forest

Another site in Florida that I would like to revisit is Appalachicola National Forest. This area is up near Tallahassee and covers a pretty wide area. There are a lot of dirt roads and a lot of pine trees. A lot of the habitat is Florida scrub which has a […]

Butterflies
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Back to the Smokies

I have been looking through some of my photos and material from my trip to the Smokies a couple of years ago in anticipation of our October trip to the Smokies and the Blue Ridge Parkway.Again, I can definitely see the improvement in my photography and the different type of […]

Stegosaurus and tree
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More dinosaurs

You might be seeing a lot of dinosaur pictures from me over the next couple of weeks. I will try to mix some other stuff in but I like how these are coming out so far. These were pretty much all taken middle of the day. A lot of the […]

Sharing Tea
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Don’t forget the people

I do not like to take people pictures. I currently take pictures of my daughters, but before they were born I very rarely included people in my shots. This is definitely a regret from my trip to Africa. If I were to do it all over I would have taken […]

Reflected Tetons
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A couple of oldies

Tonight I am showing two shots from our vacation back from 2006 to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. It is fun to look back at some of my old shots to see how far I have come with my photography. Very few of my old favorite shots […]