This long exposure photograph I took of the amusement ride “Zipper” remains my best example of capturing a carnival ride at night. Combining my love of photography and the traveling carnivals into one image.
I captured this at an annual fall festival in St Pete.
On a weekend staycation to Miami, staying downtown on the riverfront I took the obligatory night walk with my camera on a tripod.
As I was walking back accross the Port Road Bridge toward downtown the arean where the Miami Heat call home presented itself in what I think is a pretty photogenic way.
I set up my tripod and grabbed some shots. Inside my head I was thinking that shots from the front were going to turn out better, the wide angle architecture shots.
But over time I have settled on this one as my represntation.
When I first moved to St. Pete in the early 2000’s there was a shopping area in downtown St Pete called Baywalk. It had shops, restaurants, movie theater, etc. It was touristy.
At some point is was renovated and rebranded Sundial, a little more upscale. One of the new places was the Locale Market, I grabbed this image one night on a photowalk, I think it processed well in black and white.
I did not frequent the shops or eatery’s as much as i did when than before, i kinda got priced out .
Here is a photograph of the Dali Museum at night. It is located on the waterfront in downtown St Pete. This was not my first attempt at a night photograph of this located, but it is my best.
The benefit of living in downtown St Pete afforded me the opportunity to revisit places like this over and over again to practice and improve.
Also having great places like this cool architecture to practice on is great too!
I missed living in such a target rich area like St Pete/ Tampa.
St Pete sits on Tampa Bay, which affords a lot of waterfront photography. And with the illuminated city skyline in the background at night you can get some really good shots. I love long exposure shots, especially with water. I also love converging lines like the docks and marina boat launch at Demens Landing, which is in the heart of downtown St Petersburg Florida.
This was right where I live so I was able to make multiple attempts at this shot, year over year. This is my best result of all those attempts.
Revenge of the JPEG 
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