Another Day at the Races

I know it's beginning to look like the only thing I photograph are horses, I know. My father goes to the track frequently and sometimes I meet him out there. It is a good place to try to capture action and there is color and character around the track, too.

Downtown Tampa Photos

On the way home from the racetrack (see previous post), I stopped and squeezed off a few frames in downtown Tampa, including a couple that offer evidence that I was really there! I didn't stay long. I have shot there before (see some of those photos by clicking here) and had only a couple of shots I wanted to try to get.

Tampa Bay Downs Photos

The racing season has begun at Tampa Bay Downs. I don't gamble much. Instead I play games of chance with my camera. Can I capture the action? Will it be in frame? In focus? Perhaps if I shot action sports more than a few times a year I'd be more proficient at it.

As it is, I got a few good shots, though some of these had to be heavily cropped to fill the frame as much as they do.

Tampa Horse Show

The Bob Thomas Equestrian Center at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa frequently hosts horse shows and jumping competitions. The one this past Saturday was a low-level event, I think.

The course was also muddy, and I wore some of it home as a companion souvenir to the horse manure I — of course — stepped in.

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Not an original title, I'm sure, but that's what I was doing on a cloudy Saturday this past weekend. Tampa's Oaklawn Cemetery dates back to at least the mid-19th century. Tampa's first mayor is buried there as well as several Florida Supreme Court justices and many of the people who first settled the city.

Today it is a neglected patch that sits next to the bus station downtown. Many of the tombstones are cracked and broken, a reminder that nothing is eternal.