tropical car park

Even parking decks deserve good architecture. Especially when right near the waterfront.





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st. pete sunrise

July photo walk was at sunrise. I am not sure getting up at 4:30 was worth it. It is basically a crap shoot. Anyway, I shot lots of frames, mostly for HDR. I used Photomatix 4.0 with Topaz Adjust to process this. I need to learn Photomatix because it tends to leach the color out of my photos.





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o wave

Our July photo walk was a sunrise walk in St Petersburg. This sculpture, O Wave, is by Gordon Heuther. It is stainless steel and dichroic glass. The change of color is wonderful.






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three become one

This was taken on a photo walk in Dade City. In front of an antiques store, they chained the old wheels to the tree. Over time, the tree has claimed the chain and made it part of its trunk. The wheels are being lifted off the ground. How will it look in another ten or fifteen years?





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ms k & andy

I went to school to check out Andy's class have Fun Friday. They made cupcakes and macaroni & cheese to help celebrate a birthday. Funny thing is, the student left early. Ms. K is a former model who is always willing to smile. Why not? She's beautiful!





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big feet, dirty mirror

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Andy's class went on a CBI to Target and lunch. Afterwards, we walked to PetCo and Payless. The girls wanted to try on shoes. The boys were bored. Me too.

locked in

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Ryan was interested in the bowling lockers.

round & yellow

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It is interesting what time can do with one's enthusiasm towards art and photography. As always, I am behind with photo processing images from my photo walks. I was working on images from the World Wide Photo Walk. As I looked at them today, many no longer interested me. This is one of the few (OK, 29) that made the cut.

walk the line

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Even I can't resist the pull of a long curb to walk on.

boys of summer

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I was surprised that Ryan agreed to go to Phillipe Park for the Monday Morning Photo Walk. We didn't find the group right away so we walked and went into the water to cool off. Ryan looks to be having a good time but he said later that didn't want to go on another walk.

water shoes

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We were at Phillipe Park. it was morning and already hot. There was a small beach and I walked in. I said to Ryan that it was too bad he could not walk in with his shoes since they were not water shoes. He proved me wrong.

streamers

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These kind of streamers that car dealerships put up usually annoy me. But these caught my eye, in a good way.

sweet tooth

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Our photo walk today was in Dade City. There are plenty of antique stores. Ivy Cottage Creations had this cool bowl full of papier mache candy corn. Chip just had to try some out.

three circles

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This was taken at Rusty Street Creations in Channelside.

cow chip

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Chip had fun at the Tampa Bay History Museum.

gone are the days of an eleven year old

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Yep, I am waiting until the last minute to get Ryan's photo boo to Mpix. Tomorrow is Ryan's birthday. I had to process a few photos before I could include them. This is my favorite from today. And I know that I focused on the wrong eye. But you can only see it if you enlarge the photo.

1254

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This building on Channelside Drive always catches my eye. It's the bright colors and I love it. I finally stopped and took some shots of it.

chip in the red light district

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Doyle helped chip with the pose.

grid iron man

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We walked the area north of Channelside on Friday. This guy lives in front of the 12th Street Creations. A very cool metalshop.

Strobilanthes dyerianus

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Otherwise known as persian shield. This was taken at the Buetterfly Rainforest in Gainesville.