Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is a theme park in Tampa, Florida that has a combination of animals and thrill rides. I recently took a day to visit to take some photographs of the rides for a project I am working on. In the past I had mostly taken pictures of […]
The original Columbia Restaurant, located in the historic Ybor City neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, is the oldest continuously operated restaurant in Florida, the oldest Spanish restaurant in the United States and one of the largest Spanish restaurants in the world with 1,700 seats in 15 dining rooms taking up 52,000 […]
Last weekend I went to Tampa International Airport to capture the sunrise. I was rewarded with a very colorful scene. The sky had a lot of great pinks and oranges. The skyline itself is a bit hard to capture from TIA even with my longest lens as it is between […]
Been shooting a lot of new and a few old places so have a variety of pics to post. Today’s post is a variety pack of some of my recently photographed scenes. The sunrise behind the Sticks of Fire sculpture and downtown Tampa was captured from the University of Tampa […]
I had a chance to take the Amalie Arena Behind the Scenes Tour before the Ottawa Senators game this past weekend. It was pretty cool and I got a chance to take some photos in the arena (normally my camera wouldn’t be allowed in). The two ladies leading the tour […]
Spring in Florida is different than in most states. We are not thawing out from a chilly winter like most of the country. Two events happen around the end of winter and beginning of spring in Tampa, Gasparilla and spring training. I did not get to attend the pirate invasion […]
This is one of those sites at Tampa that I drive past all the time but have never photographed before. I took the time to take a couple photos this past week. There is a park that the tower is in, but the angle of photos from the park isn’t […]
Tampa has quite a few murals in the downtown area and especially in the nearby Tampa Heights neighborhood. The Tampa postcard mural by Carl Cowden is probably the most famous. Two others in the downtown area include Curious Child by Bask (Leon Bedore) and Tes One on the side of […]
While the rest of the country is suffering through the Polar Vortex, we had a cold front here in Tampa also. The high was only about 50 on Wednesday. This was almost a 100 degrees warmer than a lot of places up north. I have one warmer themed shot today […]
I hope everyone had a good holiday break. We did a little traveling to visit family up north and it was a bit cold, but no snow. We are happy to be home though. Here are a couple of Tampa photos to welcome everyone back. Both were taken around sunrise.