Philippe Park, Safety Harbor, Florida located in Pinellas County
August 20, 2017
This week we got up early and braved the traffic to visit Philippe Park in Safety Harbor, Florida. This park is along the shoreline of the bay nestled among beautiful oak trees. We arrived about 8am, and it was already climbing into the mid-80's in temperature and muggy. The park offers a lot of shade which helps to make it more pleasant during the...
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Dog Portraits from multiple perspectives
August 18, 2017
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This week's pet photography theme is "Multiple Perspectives". Great thought went into all the wonderful photographs that I saw for suggestions on how to achieve this particular week's theme. There were many great ideas, and even some that were really cool - but the reality for me was right now is it's very hot and muggy here in Florida and my dogs...
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Oak Trees in Florida - rural Dade City
August 13, 2017
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It was a rainy, overcast, stormy day as I recently drove out to the country areas of Dade City, Florida about an hour north of the busy metro area of Tampa. I'll admit, as I turned off the busy Interstate and slowly proceeded east out into the country, I felt like perhaps I had left Florida. There were hills! Not ant hills, but hills like I remembe...
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VPShoots Happy Dogs - Action photographs of dogs having fun
August 11, 2017
This week's word pet photography theme is "Happy". I googled to see what "Happy Dog Photographs" look like and I found that the most universal photograph is a dog with a wide open mouth and panting. Some of the dog photographs show dogs that appear to be grinning, other dogs actually appear to be smiling but the overall reaction most people have is...
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Scary airport runway
August 06, 2017
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This past week I was going through some old images to see what I might want to create (warning - this is not a real photograph, but was created from 2 separate photographs). Anyone out there remember the Stephen King book/movie called Langoliers? If you do, remember how the airport runway was breaking apart as the airplane took off? This completed...
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