When I set my camera up here last week, right after the coronavirus “social distancing” directive, I was focused mostly on the Carol Motel’s rustic sign. I hadn’t noticed the scurrying human activity underneath. I find this keeps happening as I compile these time lapses, little dramas occurring under my nose until I examine the thousand or so photographs I’ve taken. Of course, I have no idea what’s going on with these characters; where they’re going, least of all their intentions. I have preserved only a few brief seconds of their lives. But maybe that’s all that’s needed.
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The Muvico Theater, after charming Tampa’s Ibor City audiences for 19 years, closed in July 2019. Theaters, despite their artistic storefronts and (sometimes) compelling movie selections, are closing all over the United States. What will take their place?
2 CommentsI recently attended a photo expedition organized by my local photo club. We went on a boat ride to take pictures of Florida’s Sunshine Skyway suspension bridge. As we approached the bridge at sunset, I saw several people taking shots, then chimping through them and deleting some. As the bridge got larger, its lights became more brilliant. They were missing shots.
I had seen photographers do this before.
Don’t copy them. Never delete pictures during a photo shoot!
2 CommentsThis is my recited tribute to Huey Lewis and the News, whose 1984 song “I Want a New Drug” was a big hit. It didn’t turn out as expected.
5 CommentsAngelo’s Food Market in Ruskin, Florida is the busiest bodega in town. I stopped by there one evening as dawn was breaking and all of…
One CommentHere is my take on a classic that I heard on the way back from St. Petersburg, Florida. Peter BatesPeter Bates is a writer and…
14 CommentsThis is a timelapse video of a traffic stop accompanied by the always slightly askew music of Frank Zappa.
2 CommentsMy wife Cheryl Levin is a member of Line Dancers of Sun City Center (FL). Lately she has been choreographing dances for the group, based…
Leave a CommentWe recently went to Gainesville, FL right after New Years. We saw many creatures. A half million of them, give or take a few hundred.
8 CommentsHow can you benefit from HDR (high dynamic range) software? What is HDR, after all? Whenever pictures display blown out highlights or murky shadows, HDR processing is there to help.
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