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The January Wolf Moon rising over Tampa (4)
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The Wolf Moon over Tampa

Got some nice shots of the Wolf Moon rising over Tampa on Friday night. The key to making the moon look so large is being a good distance away (we were probably 12-13 miles from downtown Tampa) and using a long telephoto lens (mine was a 560mm equivalent).

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Water Street Tampa Christmas Decorations

The fastest growing area of downtown Tampa is Water Street Tampa. It is a series of developments by Jeff Vinik’s (the owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning) group. This is over near Amalie Arena. I noticed that they had some pretty nice Christmas Decorations so took a trip over to […]

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Lunar Eclipse November 2022

Went out to shoot the lunar eclipse early this morning. Was beautifully clear until the moon started getting close to the buildings I wanted to photograph it with and then a bunch of clouds blew in. I was able to capture the phases of the eclipse and made a composite […]

Hunters Moon Over Tampa
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Moonrise over Tampa

Made another outing to try to capture the moonrise over Tampa. The clouds again interfered and didn’t allow us to see the moon until almost half an hour after it rose so we missed some of the best shots. There was a beautiful sunset before this happened so that was […]

Armature Works Christmas Tree at Sunset
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Christmas in Tampa

I went out Thursday night to try to capture some of the Christmas Decorations around downtown Tampa. As seems to happen to me every year, there were some obstacles to getting the shots I wanted. The two main issues I had was they had a fence around Curtis Hixon Park. […]

Lion - Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay

On Saturday we made a visit to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. We hadn’t been for awhile. Not too many changes since last time we went. Unfortunately the Cheetah Hunt roller coaster is down for maintenance but we rode Kumba, Montu, and Cobra’s Curse. The kids of course also enjoyed the […]

Tampa Vertical Sunrise
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Fiery Tampa Sunrise

On a weekday morning that I happened to be off I made the decision to shoot sunrise at Julian Lane Park in Tampa. From there you have a good angle of the sunrise behind the Straz Center and downtown Tampa. Shortly after I arrived I by chance met a fellow […]