¶Here’s to thunderstorms and sunsets, in that order. A hastily-made old fashioned.was the perfect end to this day.
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¶The timing of the storm was perfect, leaving great cloud cover in its wake for a beautiful sunset.
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Lightning strikes the Gulf of Mexico as seen from over Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida. (St. Pete Beach, Florida)
¶This is my second favorite shot of the storm.
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Lightning strikes the Gulf of Mexico as seen from over Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida. (St. Pete Beach, Florida)
¶We had perfect thunderstorm conditions tonight–one rolled over us, heading northwest out over the Gulf, right before sunset. It had quite a bit of lightning activity, too. I didn’t have time to setup my full frame camera, so I grabbed the iPhone 12 and attempted to catch lightning.
¶I shot for about twenty minutes, capturing about a hundred images, each right after I saw lightning. This was frustrating and fun at the same time–I kept probably seven. I’m posting two.
¶It gives you a real sense of the time it takes to process what you see and turn it into action. Frustrating to watch a lightning strike and then feel your finger hit the button a millisecond (or more) too late. Seven out of a hundred plus is decent, I think!
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¶The cell phone lot at Tampa International is really well done, complete with a a drive-in theater style arrivals board, restrooms, and vending machines. EV chargers, too! Puts the lot at Detroit Metro to shame. Well done, TPA!
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¶Red Wings with a bullet. The Yzerplan is coming together nicely.
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¶There’s a lot to criticize about Tropicana Field. It has some positives, though. Just look at this photo–The Trop clearly has the most interesting geometries in all of baseball! Besides the beautiful shapes that all baseball fields share, look at the rings of the catwalks, the radiant supports on the roof, and the way the left field foul pole just stabs through it all.
¶And a bonus for this game–our seats were ever-so-slightly out of plane with the third base foul line.
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¶The Touch Tank, in all its glory!
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¶Having Harry with us provided an excuse to visit the Touch Tank at Tropicana Field. We haven’t visited that in several years, despite going to several games over those years. I think it’s clear from this photo who was most excited about it.
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¶We went to the Rays game this afternoon. Nearly missed it, thinking first pitch was at 7 PM. Nope–noon start today! The surprise early start was nice, though, giving the boys a reason to get moving relatively early in the day.
¶I always want this picture when we’re at Tropicana Field–the group selfie in the beautiful atrium of an otherwise less-than-beautiful (but I love it!) stadium. Phone cameras just can’t capture it well, though. I need my mirrorless Sony, a tripod, shutter release, and a graduated neutral density filter! Oh well, playing with the editing of the phone versions is fun, and reminds me that there’s no perfect way to develop or edit a photo. Have fun with it, and see what comes from it. I love the over exposed, super contrasty, grainy look here. And black and white can always help to recover things in a janky exposure.
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¶We ate dinner at The Hangar at Albert Whitted tonight. One of our favorites, but the weather threatened rain all day, which made for a slow day at the airport. So, we didn’t see much activity as we ate. Bummer.
¶The ground crew did tug this Pilatus from a hangar across the way to a spot right in front of our car right before we left. Jake and I took a closer look through the fence.
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¶A screenshot showing the final approach of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plane, SPAR19, in Taipei, Taiwan.
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¶The world held its collective breath today as Nancy Pelosi left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It still wasn’t clear if she was going to make her planned stop in Taiwan as she entered the air, so people around the world turned to flight tracking apps like Flightradar24 to watch as SPAR19 headed around the South China Sea and eventually turned North, heading around the Philippines and right for Taiwan.
¶I use Flightradar24 all the time, but couldn’t get data to load this morning as so many people around the world watched our Speaker head East (and North) for democracy.
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The sun sets over the Gulf of Mexico as viewed from Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida. (St. Pete Beach, Florida)
¶A few more clouds would have made for more interesting skies after the sun sank below the horizon, but this sunset was damn near perfect.
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¶I might have a new favorite selfie of Renee and me.
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¶Our crew for this trip–Me, Renee, Jake, and Harry.
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¶I love this photo of Jake and Renee. Casual, unposed, and perfect light. We’ve walked this beach so many times, watched so many sunsets here, but, still, it never gets old.
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¶Caught some crazy light coming through the garage as we headed to the beach for the sunset.
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¶The fire and brimstone of southern Georgia never ceases to amaze me. This is representative of the billboards in the last 100 miles or so in Georgia.
¶It’s funny, actually. Every time we “run the gauntlet,” I feel assured in my belief that there is no god, because, if there were, he/she surely would have blown up the car with all the blasphemy and fist waving going on.
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¶Beautiful morning for The Drive to St. Pete Beach.
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¶This is fascinating, both for the history and for the science behind it.
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¶How does this happen? Blame for these “race to publish” errors seems to usually fall on the writer. Not here, though, where it seems Mr. Dow’s “management team” had the itchy finger.
¶CNN previously reported an obituary on Tony Dow, after receiving a statement from his management team confirming his death. That statement has since been rescinded and a family friend has confirmed to CNN that Dow is in hospice care.
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¶Dentist appointment. Joy!
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