On Monday’s blog we took a rather cursory look at Tampa. Today we’ll see a bit more of the skyline as viewed from one of the cruise ships.
You’ll have to tune in on Friday to discover the ship from which these photographs were taken. For now, let’s just say that it’s a Holland America ship, and the view of Tampa and the Tampa Port Authority were exquisite. The neat thing about the Tampa Port Authority is that, if you take a close look, you’ll see inside the giant green glass cube an immense glass globe. And inside that globe appear to be individual office spaces.
That’s the Seddon Lighthouse you’ll see below, and I managed to capture both it and the Tampa skyline in the background behind it.
On the other side of the ship was a rather imposing grain elevator that verily cried out for the Ansel Adams touch, so I took a second shot of it in portrait orientation and did a little Picasa magic. The sky was darkened by filtering with a virtual dark red filter.
But what’s a cruise without the ever-popular deck shot during the initial sail away from port? The beautiful babe in the striped shirt is, of course, Ursula.
That night we witnessed an absolutely stunning ocean sunset. But you’ll have to come back on Friday to see that, as well as some photographs of the interior of our mystery ship.
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