International Plaza Mall, Tampa, FL
This weekend I went to International Plaza with my wife and her parents. I haven’t gotten out in a while, and welcomed the opportunity to go take some pictures. After wandering around for almost an hour and not getting anything great, we went outside to the open-air wing of Internation Plaza. My luck changed when the sky opened up:
I was estatic. I really like pictures of people against the elements.
Of course, once it started raining, the family wanted to head back inside, so I didn’t get as many pictures as I probably could have. We wandered around for a little while longer, ate at a mall restaurant, and went back to the car to drive home.
On the way out of the parking lot, a fox ran acoss our path! I stopped the car right in the middle of the road and lept out to take pictures:

It looked skinny, and it wasn’t at all disturbed by my presence. Some of these pictures were taken from under 10 feet away.
So, not a great weekend for photography, but not bad either.

June 28th, 2004 at 7:05 am
Neat! We used to have one near our institute. No traces of him this year and the groundhog population has consequently exploded.
June 28th, 2004 at 4:01 pm
b&w is the coolest!
June 28th, 2004 at 4:02 pm
I really like the black and white top one … I love this capture of life type photo : )
June 28th, 2004 at 9:35 pm
both cool photos—the fox is very surreal—the black and white is done so well… really nice…
June 29th, 2004 at 7:01 pm
as a biologist the fox would catch my eye but the girl holding the newspaper over the head to protect her against the raging elements is just perfect :-)
love the way you managed to capture the traces of rain, almost like we were there also :-)
well done indeed
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