Tag: Christmas

Centro Ybor Christmas Tree Vertical, Ybor City, Florida
Blog, Tampa

Ybor City Christmas Tree

Here are a few more shots of the Ybor City Christmas tree, a closeup and a wider angle. The Ybor City tree is nice and has some nice glowing decorations. However, when I photographed it, the top 1 1/12 feet were not lit up so I had to add a […]

Centro Ybor Christmas Tree, Ybor City, Florida
Blog, Tampa

Christmas in Ybor City

Ybor City is a historic neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, United States, located just northeast of downtown. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor […]

Curtis Hixon Christmas Fountains, Tampa, Florida
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Tampa Christmas Fountain

I went out to Curtis Hixon Park last night to get a few shots of the Christmas tree. Unfortunately there was some issue with the tree and it did not come on when it was supposed to. I actually left and was heading home when of course, I saw that […]

Tampa Christmas Palms Tight, Tampa, Florida
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Tampa Palm Trees

Of course, being Florida, we have plenty of palm trees around. My first shot tonight is the skyline view from the University of Tampa which includes a bunch of the waterfront palm trees. It’s hard to find the exact right spot to get the buildings lined up between the trees. […]

Christmas Palms Tight, Tampa, Florida
Blog, Tampa

More Tampa Christmas Shots

Posting a few more shots tonight of my trip to Curtis Hixon Park to capture the Christmas decorations. This shot with everything angled a little bit is one of my two favorite shots of the overall scene. Believe me, it was not easy getting this scene without people in it. […]

Fountains Medium, Tampa, Florida
Blog, Tampa

Red and Green Tampa

The location of the Christmas tree this year at Curtis Hixon Park allows for the incorporation of a lot of other elements into the picture. The palm trees are nearby and lit up red and green as seen in my previous post. The other piece that ties everything together is […]