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St. Petersburg
2022-02-07 16:58:00 UTC
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Sunrise on Tampa Bay
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A planned overnight trip to Naples, Florida turned into a 5-day jaunt adding St. Petersburg and Sarasota to the itinerary . This meant buying a few polo shirts while on the road. The ongoing supply chain issues…
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The Ponce, St. Augustine
2022-01-15 15:34:04 UTC
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The Ponce, the former Ponce de Leon Hotel, is now the Flagler College in St. Augustine. The Spanish Renaissance design structure was built in 1888 as a luxury property by Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler, who left his imprint around South Florida. It was one of the first buildings…
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LIGHTS OUT? ST. AUGUSTINE SAYS, NOT YET
2022-01-12 17:07:30 UTC
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Ha! You thought I was finished with the Christmas display photos last month, didn’t you? You thought two postings was enough? Well, your intrepid blogger heard about a major holiday light display in St. Augustine, Florida and drove the four hours to photograph it … just for you. Yeah, well,…
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MORE FROM THE NORTON
2022-01-05 22:40:43 UTC
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One of the reasons I went to the Norton Museum of Art, other than to photograph the BMW, was to see the painting ” Water Lily Pond (Clouds),” one of over two-hundred and fifty canvases created by Claude Monet depicting painted gardens and natural subjects. It is beautiful beyond description,…
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CALDER ART CAR
2022-01-03 14:45:57 UTC
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Believe it or not, it is actually 2022. I wanted to start off the new year in colorful fashion, so my first outing was a visit to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach Florida. I love the feel and flow of this museum, a contemporary structure with…
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Portland Two
2021-11-22 14:31:46 UTC
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Gerding Theater at the Armory
Portland has an interesting mix of architecture from classical western to contemporary, along with one particularly interesting repurposed building, the Gerding Theater. The Portland Armory, c. 1889, was designated an historic building and converted to a performing arts space in 2006. With stone and wood…
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Portland Part One
2021-11-20 16:52:37 UTC
Normally I post recent work on this blog. Every Blue Moon, there was one this morning in case you weren’t looking, I revisit my archives to make room on my hard drive or to review earlier projects. Today I revisited Portland. I hadn’t taken a solo photo trip out to…
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A Georgetown Walk
2021-11-07 13:08:25 UTC
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Post-Halloween
It’s about time for my seasonal move to Florida and this is the time of the year when the weather is spectacular in Washington D.C. The skies are blue, the angle of the sun near perfect, the air crisp, with no humidity. It was time for a last walk,…
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Path to Happiness. Profile: Scott Harrison
2021-10-25 11:01:10 UTC
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Have you met anyone who didn’t like a merry-go-round? I haven’t. A truly unique example is the Carousel of Happiness in Nederland Colorado. Its roots are in a carousel built by Danish woodcarver Charles I.D. Looff, who built the first carousel for Coney Island. Looff went on to construct carousels…
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Madrid, Art Capital of Spain
2021-10-10 11:00:45 UTC
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Fruit Vendor Storefront
Madrid. The capital of Spain, its largest city and the home of the National Museo delPrado, a world-class museum known for its Spanish centric collection and international art. Madrid is a beautiful city with wide boulevards, great restaurants and oh yeah, pickpockets. The sidewalks can be very…