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Made it to the Manatee Viewing Center at the Teco Big Bend Station in Apollo Beach. When the water temperatures dip below 68 degrees the Florida manatees seek the warmer waters in the discharge canal. Salt water taken from Tampa Bay to cool Unit 4-flows clean and warm back to the bay. It was a very cold dreary day. The Manatee Viewing Center is open from November to April.
Happy Slider Sunday!
Boardwalk along the nature trail at the Teco Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach, FL. Looking towards the 50ft viewing tower at the end of the boardwalk.
Happy Bench Monday!
How about manatee kisses for Valentines Day?
Manatee Monday - some of my favorite shots from visiting the TECO Manatee Viewing Center this past weekend.
A successful return to the scrubby habitat near Tampa. This is a composite image of the same bird on guard duty. The other two were looking for acorns
My 66th photo in Flickr Explore! I framed the red ship against a peach pink purple pastel sky under the green arches of Palm tree fronds at my blessed home on Tampa Bay, Florida, in Apollo Beach. An iPhone 6S+ photo enhanced on the iPhone with PS Express.
Magical Monday Clouds Cover Dramatic Dusk - IMRAN™
I didn’t get a chance to do a livestream at sunset. I managed to step away from my desk at dusk. I was able to capture this magical Monday moment as a moody cloud cover over Tampa Bay made for another dramatic Florida dusk.
© 2019 IMRAN™
#TampaBay #Florida #sunset #ApolloBeach
Stunning First Sunset 2019 Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™
Happy New Year! What a peaceful and gratitude filled start to the new year. What a stunning boating sunset just off my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida, to end the first day of the new year, 2019. How is your start to the new year? May Allah bless us and all good people with healthy, happy, prosperous and love-filled days, and years, ahead. Amen.
© 2018 IMRAN™
Power plant in Apollo Beach FL
Because of the angle I had to use to capture this shot, the perspective is off slightly, but I really liked the clouds.
I guess you would say this is how the lens saw it.
Blissful Bay Beautiful Boating Stunning Sunday Sunset Scene - IMRAN™ (In Explore!)
My 87th photo in Explore! What a spectacular sunset we were blessed to witness over Tampa Bay at Apollo Beach, Florida, last night. This photo was taken about half a mile away from my home out on the shallow banks of the bay in front of my Symphony Isles neighborhood at low tide. It was perfect for boating, kayaking, and wading in knee-deep water with the dogs running excitedly in the seawater.
© 2020 IMRAN™
#Florida #TampaBay #ApolloBeach #boating #Sunday #sunset 🌅 #summer
MAGIC: Magnificent Aerial Gratitude Inspiring Capture - Tampa Bay Sunset Late September - IMRAN®
This is a two photo panorama of a magnifiecent dusk captured by my several years old DJI Mini 3 Pro drone which I have not had time to fly in quite a while. Nor have I even had time to share what I have captured. I pulled this from the memory card after yesterday's afternoon flight. This moment of infinite gratiude at Maghreb prayer tim was captured on 23rd September, 2025 just before 8:30 PM (before the moronic time change exercise of daylight savings kicked in).
© 2025 IMRAN®
As I figured a workaround for my ailing computer (use gfxCardStatus to bypass a defective video card) I am loading some images from my Florida trip.
Beyond Breathtaking Sunset Paints Tampa Bay Florida Sky In Infinite Colors Of God's Magic - IMRAN™
(My 107th Flickr Explore!)
I am blessed beyond words to see God's magic painted in the sky above my Apollo Beach home on Tampa Bay, Florida. NO editing was done to change any color or texture of this perfect moment. I only added my name, (Can you see it?)
How incredible are Tampa Bay sunsets? This was actually captured literally five years ago, in July 2016, with my Nikon D300. I bow my head in gratitude as Maghreb five years later gives me an opportunity to give thanks to Almighty Allah for having let me see this moment then, and again today.
© 2016-2021 IMRAN™
Radiant Red Glowing Gold Stunning Sunset Spans Skies & Seas Scene - IMRAN™
(My 108th Flickr Explore!)
I was setting up the Nikon D850 to capture this sunset in a timelapse, which I will post later, when I clicked to take at least one still shot to share with you. K2, my playful soon to be adolescent German Shepherd puppy, managed to get his horse-sized ears into the picture. Kennedy, the suaver of the two, stood to my side.
I just had to share this moment with you. The glowing gold radiant red stunning sunset colors spanned the scene from sky to sea to swimming pool on Tampa Bay and reflected doubly in the windows of my blessed Apollo Beach home. Another moment of gratitude as Maghreb prayer time approached.
© 2021 IMRAN™
K2 Sits Poolside As Stunning Sunset Washes Over Apollo Beach Florida Home - IMRAN™
(My 101st Explore!). This was a 200MB high-resolution panorama created from about a dozen handheld iPhone 11 Pro Max photos. It is hard to imagine the level of detail that exists in the original image. I had to reduce it to 20% size, and sites like FaceBook will literally show barely tolerable quality with something like a 5MB version of a 200MB file.
The sunset is the magical subject of attention, but I just loved how well-behaved and attentive then almost six-month-old puppy K2 was sitting poolside. Kennedy, my older German Shepherd, was behind me as I captured this stunning panorama of a blessed moment in time I have experienced living in this life of mine.
© 2020-2021 IMRAN™
K9 Kennedy Keeping Keen Eye On K2 While Wading In Tampa Bay At Stunning Dusk - IMRAN™ - [In Explore!]
My 88th Photo In Explore! Even though Kennedy hates swimming and initially avoided water at all costs, he discovered he loves wading in Tampa Bay waters up to his underbelly to cool off, but not deeper. K2 is smaller and shorter, and much bolder about going in the swimming pool on his own, while Kennedy goes sits in a corner! But they both love running and wrestling on the beach at my blessed home at lower tides. Kennedy gets wet and K2 being smaller gets soaked. As we ended a gorgeous evening, I caught Kennedy silhouetted by a spectacular Tampa Bay, Florida, dusk at this moment, as he was keeping a keen eye on K2 exploring under the dock.
© 2020 IMRAN™
Graciously Giving Gratitude, Breathtaking Blissful Backyard Dramatic Dusk Dinner Stunning Seaside Scene - IMRAN™
(3D on FB) (My 137th Flickr Explore!)
I mentioned this to colleagues at the end of great team meeting this afternoon, “Gratitude Is Key.”
Appreciating everything with gratitude-filled hearts and grateful souls. That is what makes even a daily “routine” thing become a priceless moment, a precious memory.
Even having a quickly assembled fajita for dinner in the kitchen with this “routine” seaside dusk in the backyard is a “once in a lifetime” experience, with the right attitude. That makes this kind of an experience become far more valuable than even a fancy dinner within the walls of some expensive restaurant.
All it takes is looking up, looking out, looking around, and being grateful. Gratitude is key — for every blessing, every bite, every minute, every breath, everything, every family member, everyone who gives me love openly or trying to keep it secret even from me. I am. Grateful. Beyond words.
What are you grateful for?
© 2023 IMRAN™
#Florida #TampaBay #ApolloBeach #sunset #swimming #IMRAN #gratitude #HomeSweetHome #love #family #inspiration #motivation
How My German Shepherd K2 Likes To Sleep - IMRAN®
(My 190th Flickr Explore!)
#LetSleepingDogsLie!
© 2025 IMRAN®
Hunter Carries Its Prey In Silhouette Against Blood & Gold Sunset Sky - IMRAN™
Gold, and blood, so different, yet so intertwined. One a cold solid metal unless molten, the other a warm liquid unless coagulated by death and destruction, often brought about by man's greed and desire for gold, actual and figurative. These were the colors that filled the sky as I got to see no less than a dozen different ospreys have successful treasure-hunting runs, fish for food in this case.
I shot the bird, with my camera, while the killer osprey carried the fish on its final journey aerodynamically aligned to the direction of flight. I only had the 18-200mm lens on my 13-years old Nikon D300 and did not even have time to check and change any settings. I zoomed in the most I could and clicked away. This was one of the two best pictures I kept from that spontaneous shoot.
© 2020 IMRAN™
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TGIF / Midnight / Hour / Neighborhood/ Watch / Dogs - IMRAN™ (My 146th Flickr Explore!)
Returning home from a midnight walk last night, Kennedy and K2, my incredible German Shepherd Dogs, decided to settle down in front of my neighbors’ beautiful home. They were acting as neighborhood watch late night guard dogs.
No edit and no filter effect used on this handheld iPhone 14 Pro Max long exposure photo. I had to squat on the road to keep my shadow out of the image. But that low angle of the wide angle view makes the house look distorted.
I tested an edit to make it a closer cropped view, with perspective straightened. But it took away the natural dark vignette and vanishing point street edge impact. I may post the cropped view to show how it reduces the visual impact. The night sky shades and dark roadway to the right would get cropped out.
© 2023 IMRAN™
#Florida #ApolloBeach #IMRAN #GSD #GermanShepherds #dogs #humor #night #street #walking #grass #neighborhood #homes #grass #sky #nightsky #longexposure #iPhone14ProMax NoEdit NoFilter
As I figured a workaround my ailing computer (use gfxCardStatus to bypass a defective video card) I am loading some images from my Florida trip.
Absolutely Unedited Perfection Of Tampa Bay Florida Dusk At Apollo Beach Home - IMRAN™ (SOOC)
[My 92nd photo in Flickr Explore!]
As Depeche Mode's song goes, "Words Are Very... Unnecessary."
I was blessed to soak-in this moment at my blessed home on Tampa Bay, Florida. A magnificent painting inspired by the roaring flames of a solar fire was emerging from the heavens rendering me silent in gratitude at Maghreb prayers. A few boaters on the calm water also quietly took in the experience.
Straight out of camera (SOOC) -- from my 13 years old Nikon D300 -- a photo ironically I did later straighten the horizon on a degree or two. Otherwise, my watermarked name would make it stand out as slanted. But NO editing of any kind to even a single pixel's colors.
© 2020 IMRAN™
Our Universal Alignment - Sunset Light Shafts, Boat, Palm Tree, & I, All Lined Up At Tampa Bay Florida Home - IMRAN™
[My 98th Explore! And same day as reaching 7 Million Views!]
As a magnificent late November sunset was filling the sky with God's magic at my blessed home in Apollo Beach, I was recording the scene with my iPhone 11 Pro Max. A boat was coming into view from my right. I managed to click the still-photo button during the video-recording to capture this frame, just as the boat had intersected the light shafts from the sun almost 92 million miles (147.5 million km) away at that time of year.
For the briefest and only moment in the space-time continuum, those photons, the boat and its occupants, the palm tree, and I, -- all on our separate journeys through the universe -- were in perfect alignment. An ordinary moment that could have easily been missed. Or a memory of a lifetime, captured for all to see even when many or almost all the living beings in this frame are long gone.
Remember, life is a ceaseless opportunity to find magical alignments. You can let them pass by, or watch them sink under the horizon into the past. But, if you choose, you can grab every such moment, and make something magical happen, even for the briefest of times. Each of those precious magical moments and memories, woven together, are the fabric of an incredible life lived as no one else could have, can, or will,.... except you, right here, right now, every spot, every moment.
Are we in alignment? Let's make it happen. Let's make it count. Let's make magic. Drop me a line, and align!
© 2020-2021 IMRAN™
Super Chill Personality German Shepherd Celebrity Kennedy Ponders His Place In The Universe On The Oceans of Time & Space At Apollo Beach On Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™
(My 121st Flickr Explore!)
My beautiful very alpha but super chill personality German Shepherd Dog,, Kennedy, often surprises me with how humanlike his personality traits and actions, and sometimes even inactions, are. On this gorgeous early morning on Tampa Bay, as I had just taken the dogs for another walk on the beach at my blessed Apollo Beach home neighborhood, he walked to the edge of the sand, and sat down. I quickly captured this magical moment. It shows his incredibly large almost-celebrity type personality and zen-like appreciation of nature.
© 2022 IMRAN™
Sunset Ends At Day's End At Winter's would End At Land's End Across Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™
The inexorable passing of the days, weeks, months, years, and life itself, is easy to remember seeing a stunning sunset like this. As the sunset was ending, on the end of a busy weekday, at the end of winter, of the fast-flying year 2021, life itself is sliding by like the ship crossing the horizon from left to right.
A casual glance does not indicate any motion of the ship. Neither does a typical day itself yell out to remind us of the flight of time. But, look up a short while later, and the ship will be where the sun is, but won't be in that time. And not too long after that, as night falls, the ship will have reached its destination, just as the lives of all of us, no matter how different, even opposite, from each others', will all end at the same destination.
It is about making every minute, every hour, every day, and every year count. It is about appreciating every moment of tranquility and every minute of serenity but also finding something to be grateful for even when there is a dark cloud above or the waves of fate are buffeting our lives.
Live, laugh, love, lust, long as we all can, my friends, and readers.
© 2021 IMRAN™
Ground To Air Photography Of Drone's Air To Ground Photography From Sea To Air Sunset Scene - IMRAN™
(My 143rd Flickr Explore!)
Everyone knows picture in picture. I love taking camera (picture) in camera (picture) photos.
To capture this breathtaking sunset at my blessed home on Tampa Bay, in Apollo Beach, Florida, I launched my not-used-enough new DJI M3P drone. Then I let it hover as I took two photos with the iPhone 14 Pro Max (stitched into this stunning panorama).
Later I flew the drone and captured a lot more imagery. No idea when I will have time to share the nearly 100,000 "To Post" items from a lifetime of photography! Grateful, and blessed, as I bowed my head in gratitude at Maghreb (sunset) prayers.
© 2023 IMRAN™
Sharing Stunning Sailing Sunset Seaside Serenity Solitude Scene - IMRAN™
It is usually around an hour after actual sunset time that some of the most stunning scenes of serenity and sunset shades seem to appear across the sky over Tampa Bay. This sailboat, seen across the water from my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida seemed to be anchored there for the sailors onboard to enjoy the stillness and solitude when I took this photo at about 7:30 pm last night, February 18, 2021. It was captured with the 14-years old Nikon D300. Another moment to bow my head in prayer of gratitude at Maghreb.
© 2021 IMRAN™
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Insignificant On Cosmic Scale But Godly In Uniqueness In Space-Time Continuum, First Sunset New Year New Decade New Era - IMRAN™
(My 97th Photo In Explore!)
What a joy to be able to live into another new year, another new decade, and, hopefully, a new era. I captured this beautiful first sunset of 2021 on Tampa Bay Florida at my blessed home in Apollo Beach.
It is an HDR image intended to capture the vivid vivacious vitality of this time in history.
In the grand scheme of things, it makes you think. Quite frankly, the moment is meaningless when seen on a cosmic scale — which is the backdrop of our time here on earth as humans, or as a species on a planet, or even as a planet in peril from its own inhabitants while it does its rounds around a fairly insignificant star called the sun. Even on a human scale it is a “non-event” — just a click that may not even register in the literally billions of photos that will have been taken between New Year’s Eve and the first night of 2021.
But here and now, the moment and the experience of this instant, it is a godly event — an absolutely unique spot, sight, and moment — in all of the infinite space-time continuum! Imagine that. I bow my head in gratitude to the Almighty, and in thanks to all of you for the love you gave, give, and will give me. Forever.
© 2021 IMRAN™
#Florida , #TampaBay , #ApolloBeach, #IMRAN, #sunset, #NewYear, #philosophy, #spirituality, #God, #Maghreb, #gratitude, #inspiration, #prose, #writing, #literature, #cosmos, #nature, #eternity, #spacetime, #solarsystem, #seaside, #lifestyle
Kennedy Exploring Beach Sand In Friday Morning Tampa Bay Walk - IMRAN™
K2 was investigating something to the side when I saw this perfect moment to make a 3D capture moment of Kennedy casually exploring the sands of Tampa Bay in a gorgeous Friday morning in Florida.
© 2021 IMRAN™
#Florida #IMRAN #TampaBay #ApolloBeach #GSD #GermanShepherds #dogs #Beach #TGIF
Pink Shafts Of Light Hungry To Touch Beauty Of Teal Penetrate Rich Gold Cloud Layers Across Tampa Bay Florida Horizon At Apollo Beach Home - IMRAN™
(My 95th photo in Flickr Explore!)
It was one of the usual lovely Florida sunsets over Tampa Bay, which I missed while out for a walk with the dogs. I was talking to two beautiful neighbors at the beach park as we saw the sunset. But on my return home I could not help but be enamored by the scene unfolding outside. The sharp light beams of soft pink seemed to penetrate their way through sold gold layers across the horizon past Tampa Bay. The golden yellow colors gave way to deeper orange red tones to the edges of the view. The Teal blue swimming pool against the multi-shaded blue sky framed those colors above and below. The waterfall created white puddles of bubbling water in the otherwise calm pool water, behind which Tampa Bay itself appeared calm like a pool. This is a quick panorama stitched from two Nikon D850 handheld photos at my blessed home in Apollo Beach.
© 2020 IMRAN™
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This spectacular Tampa Bay, Florida, sunset which I was blessed to experience and capture at home in Apollo Beach, is made from just three unedited stunning iPhone 6S+ photos fully produced laying in bed using only iOS apps, AutoStitch to stitch the pano
Downtown Tampa Across Tampa Bay From Apollo Beach Florida By Drone On Stunning Day - IMRAN™
On a beautiful blue sky and white clouds day even the steam from the power plant does not look too bad when looking at the views of downtown Tampa from above my home in Apollo Beach. To the right is my Symphony Isles neighborhood, with Andalucia to the left. Beer Can Island is visible to the far left. Tampa Bay and the local bay are picture perfect settings for boating of all kinds.
This was taken with a 7 years old DJI Phantom 4.
© 2023 IMRAN™
Magnificent Magical Dusk & Surreal Sea Shades Head To Toe Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™
(My 106th Flickr Explore!)
It was another magical sunset and dusk at my blessed home's dock at the start of May this year when I took six handheld photos with the trusted old Nikon D300. Those were quickly auto-stitched in PhotoShop to create this quick and dirty panorama of the surreal scene.
© 2021 IMRAN™
Gorgeous Dusk Across Tampa Bay Florida Silhouettes Neighbors' Gazebo & Palm Trees At Apollo Beach - IMRAN™
It is such a joy to see so many beautiful sunsets and sights in the Tampa area. This gorgeous moment has another Tampa Bay sunset, not even that "dramatic" because there were no complex clouds around, creating a magical silhouette view of the gazebo and palm trees at my Apollo Beach, Florida neighbors' home.
© 2022 IMRAN™
PS Seeing this post around 8 PM Eastern October 18, 2022 means you may have clicked the 10 MILLIONTH view of my Flickr photo-stream. Thank you, ALL!
German Shepherds TGIF Tampa Bay Beach Walk - IMRAN™
(My 128th Flickr Explore!)
Kennedy & K2 love wading in and walking around the beach of Tampa Bay at Apollo Beach. What a gorgeous TGIF Friday morning of tranquility.
© 2022 IMRAN™
#IMRAN #TampaBay #ApolloBeach #beach #Florida #summer #lifestyle #seaside #gratitude #beachlife #GermanShepherds #GSD #dogs #TGIF #Friday #tranquillity
Nature’s Erotica; Liquid Love Drops On Wet Pink Unfurling Petals - IMRAN®
The desirable rose and nature’s erotica speak for themselves in this No Edit / No Filter iPhone 17 Pro Max photo. I captured it outside my blessed home at 10 AM today, Saturday, November 22nd, 2025.
© 2025 IMRAN®
Shout It From The Rooftop(s) - IMRAN™
Hope it survives the hurricane in 24 hours.
(My 131st Flickr Explore!)
Well, actually, no need to shout. Just a different point of view of how I see my world, all around. And quietly say a prayer of gratitude. According to the phone photo GPS info, I was standing 65 feet (about 20 meters) above sea level and about 45 feet (15 m) above street level.
Handheld iPhone 13 Pro Max photos stitched into a quick and dirty 360°x360° panorama. Captured on a cloudy day at my blessed home in Apollo Beach when I used my twenty-eight feet new ladder to get up to the rooftop for these photos.
Tampa Bay is covered by clouds, with a dash of blue visible somewhere around Clearwater, I think. A boat in the water across from my home is easily visible in the view.
© 2022 IMRAN™
Picture/Windows: Blessed To See Sunsets Like This - IMRAN™
(My 144th Flickr Explore!)
See Video: [https://flic.kr/p/2oBtLm2]
I had a 6 AM to midnight day yesterday. I made it back home in time for what was surely going to be a gorgeous sunset. I set up a Timelapse on the pool deck.
However, there wasn’t enough time to go to the dock with a drone or another camera. Fortunately, I was able to capture several iPhone photos and clips from a window in the living room. This was the first one. No editing.
A magnificent sunset with a boat. This boater was a sunset lover like me and stayed there until past dusk.
Just as I would go out on my boat on the (Great South) bay and drop anchor. I would just soak in the sunset, say my prayers, have an on-the-water dinner that I would pick up driving home from work.
I loved doing that since I got my first Sea Ray SunDancer in New York in 1995. Later I did that on that same boat at Singer Island, and the beautiful Sea Ray yacht in Miami. On Tampa Bay I sometimes did that, minus dinner, on my jetski.
Last night I did it from inside the house. Blessed, grateful to the Almighty Allah, the One God and the creator of everything we often take for granted.
© 2023 IMRAN™
#Florida #TampaBay #ApolloBeach #IMRAN #beach #seaside #Tampa #Florida #lifestyle #boating #nature #motivation #inspiration #grateful #gratitude #sunset #BeachLife #Maghreb #Windows #autobiography
Can You Spot Kennedy, K2, and Me... And How Many StingRays? - IMRAN™
(My 140th Flickr Explore!)
This is a DJI M3P drone capture of a gorgeous low-tide winter's weekend day on Tampa Bay. Ot was taken at my blessed home.
Can you spot Kennedy, K2, and me? Sure you can.
But can you see the solo StingRay right at the water's edge near us? And can you find three other schools of almost 3 dozen of them?
© 2023 IMRAN™
9.5 Years Late, Stunning May Day 2016 Sunset At Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN®
I am so blessed with all the moments I have experienced and captured in my life. Sometimes it takes me a decade even to post a photo from my "To Post" album!
At least this one is being posted in less than a decade — merely 9.5 years LOL — since I captured this gorgeous Tampa Bay, Florida pre-summer sunset. Photo taken with the nearly 18-year old Nikon D300 at my blessed home in Apollo Beach.
© 2025 IMRAN®