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A visit to the new FMOPA museum downtown Tampa (Ashley Street)

Spent 2 hours visiting the Warhol exhibition and their standing collection, as well as sitting and browsing the Photography library in the comfort of this really cool building, with all its squares, crosses and circles in its design. The photo … Continue reading

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Megacon-Orlando

Spent a couple of hours Sunday at this huge Comic Book Convention. Cosplay is where  thousands of folk wear costumes from science fiction characters. I had seen photographed it first at Harajuku in Tokyo in 2004, then in Orlando  in … Continue reading

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Hilton Head AstroPhotographer

Lying on the wet sand, after dark on the deserted beach in SeaPines, I thought I was alone until I heard a quiet voice behind me. I was startled,to say the least. James introduced himself and we chatted in the … Continue reading

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Giovanna Del Franco

Crystal Lockinour at The Color Suite helped set up a photoshoot last weekend in her studio with the beautiful young Italian model Giovanna del Franco. Thanks to their patience and cooperation we got some nice images. Do click for Fullsize … Continue reading

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Simple Portrait

Invited to shoot the beautiful JoAnne Jensen with MakeUp and Hair color by the very talented Crystal Lockinour. Large window left, 50mm, 1/100 at 2.8. D200.  JoAnne stepped out of the box for this one. I think it was worth … Continue reading

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Anna Maria dreams of Rome, Sogno di Roma

Anna Maria sogna di Roma The beautiful Anna Maria image was taken in an alley in Ybor. Her family is from Rome, where I had visited a couple of years ago. After shooting with Dennis Ramos, he  gave me some … Continue reading

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Tampa Kelby Photowalk Fall leaves

What fun to wander around downtown Tampa on a fine and cooler October day in the company of good Photography friends with Scott Kelby and others from Tampa Bay Strobist meetup group. What better to signal the coming of Fall … Continue reading

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Anna Maria at our Strobist Meetup

Had the opportunity to shoot with the beautiful Anna Maria Feretti at our Tampa Strobist meetup group in Ybor city a couple of days ago. There are a number of alleys with interesting graffiti as backdrops where I got to … Continue reading

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9/11 revisited

On this day of Memorial to 9/11 tragedy, I am reminded of this image I made in 2003 on a visit to Ground Zero. I thought the silhouettes signaled the missing human element in the scene devoid of the Twin … Continue reading

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At the end of the shoot with Aylen in Ethan Allen she was just chillin’ on a beautiful red leather couch, so I snapped a few candid images. You never know which shots are going to work out best, and … Continue reading

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