Along with a good bit of the rest of the country, it was unseasonably cold in Florida today. This morning it was about 60 with one of those misting rains that isn’t quite heavy enough to really be called rain, but just heavy enough to be be annoying.   It’s May, right? It’s supposed to [...]

On April 18th 1942 then LtCol Jimmy Doolittle led a group of 16 B-25 bombers off the deck of the carrier USS Hornet. The targets in multiple locations in Japan. After the raid the plan was to crash land the planes in China. Each crew member had volunteered for a one way mission. They all [...]

High Dynamic Range, HDR for short. It’s taking a series of pictures and then laying them one over the top of the other. Each one is exposed just a little bit differently. One shot is exposed right for the whole scene, one is overexposed and the last one is underexposed.   What you get when [...]

Yeah, I don’t care what anybody says. I like shooting flowers.Especially cool flowers late in the afternoon.   Shot this little purple guy at Disney way back in 2011. It’s in one of the random beds all throughout the parks. I look for stuff like this. Interesting flowers all alone with the sun throwing some [...]

Bright flowers on a sunny deck.   Yeah, I’m ready for spring!   Shot this one with an awesome Lensbaby Sweet 35 lens. Really neat little tool. You can set how much is in focus and puts everything except the center point in this wonderful out of focus goodness.

The first day of spring is behind us now. So what better than a nice shot of the beach at sunset!   This is one of the entrances to the beach just west of the famous Destin Harbor. Right now the beaches here are full of spring breakers. That trend will continue all through the [...]

Continuing on the theme of thinking warm thoughts I give you a shot of The Villages of Baytowne Wharf in Sandestin. It’s a cool little touristy spot not far from home with some cool restaurants and nice shops.   The sun was setting throwing really cool yellows and purples into the sky and the lights [...]

We moved the clocks forward this weekend. It stays light later now and the days are going to keep getting longer. The weather will start to warm up and those of you who are still snowed or frozen in will start to dig out soon.   So to splash some color on the blog we’ve [...]

At Downtown Disney in Orlando sits one of the cooler House of Blues that I’ve been to. It’s a swamp theme, like an old funky blues shack tucked way back up in the woods. At the same time it’s got a lot of cool folk art all over the place. They’ve themed the heck out [...]