The striated Florida clouds seemed to streak across the sky every evening we were there. It was hard for me to drink in all the great photography opportunities there… just too much for the senses! Needless to say, no one got to go on any rides during the sunset hour as I had them all goose-stepping around the park to get good locations that I had secretly been scouting the whole day!
I thought this was a perfect little stage, beautifully lit in the evening. This was shot on the night of the Pirates and Princesses Party at Disneyworld, where all the kids would come dressed as one or the other. This is a little area where the little girls come to listen to stories read by Cinderella and Snow White…
Yesterday’s shot was a bit macabre (but cool!), so here is something a bit lighter for the weekend.
Whenever the sun starts to set at Disney, everyone rushes for the castle to watch a special show preceding the fireworks.
Dusk falls on the pink Cinderella castle in the Magic Kingdom. It was a quiet night… not too many people around.
This hotel is great. We have a room that overlooks the Savannah and we can see giraffes, zebras, and about a dozen other exotic animals frolicking about. Thank goodness I brought the 200mm lens… although this one was taken with the 10mm Sigma.
Last night we had the Pirates and Princesses party. I was trying to figure out why so many adults were standing in line to get autographs from a Disney actor that was pretending to be Jack Sparrow, another actor. Mass hysteria, I say!
I’m here with the family in Disneyworld for a few days. I hear a lot of, "Dad comon we gotta get a FastPass," and "Dad comon didn’t you take pictures last year?" But the clouds are different. THE CLOUDS ARE DIFFERENT! 
Everyone ran for cover, and I ran for the tripod. It’s not like metal attracts lightning or anything… comon, that is a problem in microwaves… not storms… everyone knows that.
I always think quirky houses are fun and different… I know my daughter would love to live here!
I also got a nice email from a master gingerbread-house maker and he said he was going to use this house and my previous picture of it for a model for his upcoming holiday creation…. so I will post a link here when it is done!
The mother is a prickly one…
This looks like it was found in some remote area of Southeast Asia, but it was actually found in Disneyworld. It reminds me of Mark Twain’s sensational statement in Innocents Abroad when he saw all the replicas of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper and said they were much better than the originals.
Here is a little Americana… when you run out of rooms to eat fast food in, the roof will always do nicely!
The quality of neon is not strained… Which reminds me I was involved in a charades game a few months ago at a retreat and one of the clues I gave the other team to perform was “The quality of mercy is not strained”, and they got it! Sometimes the hardest charades clues turn out to be the easiest to get… what a strange game that is…
Below that Tomorrow Land shot, I put another one of my favorite pictures from Disney around dusk…
