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Tampa downtown at twilight. The reflecting sunset rays on the skylines. Composed from the pedestrian bridge over Hillsborough river near convention center.
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Explore - July 8, 2014
Terrific Tuesday Tampa Bay Breathtakingly Beautiful Serene Seaside Sunset - IMRAN™
(My 127th Flickr Explore!) Following Monday’s stunning sunset ( www.facebook.com/100063547631173/posts/pfbid0GJeEiGmvLKhZ... ), I humbly and gratefully present tonight’s terrific Tuesday Tampa Bay breathtakingly beautiful serene seaside sunset, as a very busy and blessed day of speeches, meetings, consultations, and learning sessions came to a close. How’s that for a long sentence. 😄
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This trestle across the top of Old Tampa Bay was built in 1913 by the Tampa & Gulf Coast Railroad to connect Tampa with southern Pinellas County. The line once carried Seaboard Air Line Railway trains, and is still used today by the CSX for freight operations. Mark Lessard photo
Kennedy Facing Saturday Morning Sun With Freshly (White Sands) Powdered Nose - IMRAN™
Between Kennedy and K2, my German Shepherd Dogs, Kennedy is the one who loves wading in Tampa Bay waters every chance he gets. K2 likes to go into the clear swimming pool water more.
After wading, Kennedy of course is compelled to dry off by rolling on the beach. He gets coated in the white sands on the beach in Florida, thankfully not nuclear fallout powder in New Mexico! He does it to maximize the grit both dogs bring on to my floors at home.
On this beautiful Saturday morning, I took this photo just as he had fully powdered his nose, and looked up into the sunlight. Unedited SOOC (straight out of camera) iPhone picture looks like a planned portrait of a noble-dog.
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It had just stopped raining and the sun came out decorating the beautiful blue sky with a rainbow. The mangrove trees bordering the bay looked greener than before. What more can i ask when i have clear skies, blue bay, green trees and a rainbow - all in one picture!!
Long exposure light trails of the Tampa Christmas Boat Parade down the Hillsborough River.
Experience has taught me that I can't get a decent shot of these boats with my DSLR without bumping the ISO and increasing the grain. But these long exposure shots are always cool I've included 3 in this series here.
Breathtaking Unedited Mid-May 2016 Tampa Bay Florida Sunset At Blessed Apollo Beach Home - IMRAN™
When I say Tampa Bay sunsets as seen from my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida are the world's best, I mean it. This was taken with a now 17-years old Nikon D300 in just a JPG quality photo. No editing was done other than having Lightroom straighten and insert my name watermark.
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How about including a Bench Monday in my 365. Taken on my last morning walk before heading back to the cold weather.
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Sea Of Pink Above Floating Bed Of Green 3D - IMRAN™
These gorgeous shades of pink outside a nearby neighbor’s home in Symphony Isles, Apollo Beach, caught my eye in this morning’s walk with my German Shepherds, Kennedy and K2. It was challenging to frame the maximum number of flowers because it has been very windy here. But thd temperature has been perfect. Enjoy the 3D view.
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City Hall was built in 1966 to serve the people and staff of Clearwater Florida. It is beautifully perched on the historic Bluffs of Downtown Clearwater, overlooking Clearwater Harbor, just a block from the Historic Pinellas County Courthouse. The Bluffs of downtown Clearwater were once cherished and protected from investors and developments. The beautiful building is 53 years old and made of stone and concrete and has a state tax assessment value of over 17 Million dollars, however, it will need some updating and remodeling in the near future to keep it going for another 50 years.
But instead, our current city council wants to just demolish it. And, they have been vacating the building in hopes to tear it down and sell off the property to development investors. Once the building is vacant and no longer cared for, it will be easy to make the assessment that it is no longer needed and simply tear it down. Then the vacant lot will become a city investment property. And, that's when the city council will be looking to amend the Clearwater charter in order to sell it off the bluff property to investors and developers.
City Council hopes that having a vacant lot next to the Coachman Park & the waterfront properties will raise the property's value. Even with no clear redevelopment plan for Coachman Park or the waterfront.
The supposed redevelopment plan with a proposed budget of 55 million dollars, is still in just the planning phase and has been for the last couple of years as the city council has not been able to even agree on the band-shell design. It is starting to look like an over-hyped economic redevelopment in the downtown district that originally started with tearing down city hall for the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to relocate to, but even that plan failed. Downtown Clearwater is already struggling with low traffic numbers. Even our Mayor George Cretekos isn't convinced that the project is viable with the current council's inability to make decisions.
The redevelopment plan currently only has about 5.5 million dollars of city funding of the 55 million supposedly needed. The city will be signing a 5-year lease for offices in a private downtown high-rise. The leased space is not in a city building and not easily accessible by citizens of Clearwater. Mayor Cretekos thinks that we may be renting that space for at least 10 years from now. So with no clear plan set in place, is it really a good idea to just vacate another building downtown?
Do we really need another vacant dirt lot downtown?
And, who might be the actual buyer of the lot? It is right next to a very controversial lot that the city had to buy to save face with some of its citizens at a cost of $4.2 million dollars, just to be used as a dirt overflow parking lot.
A drive around downtown and you will quickly notice that there are a lot of vacant buildings and vacant lots in the downtown district.
There is also no clear plan or budget for a new city hall or even a location.
Please sign this petition to help save Clearwater's City Hall from the wrecking ball and make our elected officials realize that we would like to keep using it as Our City Hall.
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A Heron tries to find meal of fish at the mouth of Tampa Bay, as it enters the Gulf of Mexico.
Title is inspired by the 1991 movie with Jeff Bridges and Robin Wlliams, which was based upon Arthurian Legend.
The legend varies, but all variations possess three elements: the Fisher King was charged by God with guarding the Holy Grail, but later incurred some form of incapacitating physical punishment for his sin of pride, and had to wait for someone to deliver him from his suffering. A simpleminded knight named Percival, referred to in the movie as "The Fool", healed the wounds with kindness to the king, asking him why he suffers and giving him a cup of water to drink. The king realizes the cup is the grail and is baffled that the boy found it, as demonstrated in the closing exchange: "I've sent my brightest and bravest men to search for this. How did you find it?" The Fool laughed and said "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty!”
After taking the S-line from Clearwater, the northbound Amtrak Champion leaves the east leg of Tampa's Gary Wye and prepares for the track switches that will allow the train to back into Tampa Union Station on July 3, 1977. A crewman has already positioned himself at the vestibule for the reverse move. Courtesy Fred Clark, Jr.
O what a wonderful wonderful day, for sitting on dock down in Tampa Bay, strumming my guitar ain't got much to say but "Oh What a Wonderful Day."
The girls in bikinis, she sure look fine, they way they walk makes me lose my mind, no better way I can spend my time. Oh what a wonderful day. The weather is fine, beach is sandy, sunsets pink as cotton candy, fish are biting, ain't life dandy oh what a wonderful day. Get up and dance with this song i wrote , sing and produced. Gets you smile on and move your booty. Have fun -share with friends. Party on but wisely.
PS: Ask ALEXA, SIRI and SPOTIFY to play music by
JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND. (use all 3 names) Enjoy it Great!
If you like this video here's another just as grand: flic.kr/p/2mMT8Yj