Cinderellas Castle and a Blood Red Sky

The sunset this night was eerie, which made it a spectacular night to shoot photographs. This photo is of Cinderellas Castle, looking from the east, with the castles reflection in the water and the blood red sky behind it, this is one breathtaking photo that I have loved since the moment I took it.

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Hippo Peak-a-boo

I was able to get this photo of a hippopotamus as it was just breaching above the water level. The wonderful creature just poked his eyes and nose out of the water before heading back down below the surface.

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The Moon and a Side View of the Scorcerers Hat

On my visit to Walt Disney Worlds Hollywood Studios, we had a full moon while I was out taking nighttime shots around the park. In this photo I managed to incorporate the full moon into the photo with Mickey's Scorcerers Hat.

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The View from Japan

This photo features the view from the balcony of the Japan restaurant Teppan Edo at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. In the view you can see Spaceship Earth and the Mexican Pavilion across the World Showcase Lagoon.

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The Enchanted Tiki Room Glow

An eye catching night time photograph of the Tiki Room at Walt Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom.

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The Walt Disney World version of the Tiki Room, called "Tropical Serenade," debuted October 1, 1971, and was originally sponsored by the Florida Citrus Growers. The show closed in 1997, then reopened in 1998, as "The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management." The original group of Audio-Animatronics characters continue to star in the show including Jose, Michael, Fritz and Pierre. Walt Disney Imagineers had three of the four original actors re-record audio segments for the new show. Actor Jerry Orbach, well-known as the voice of Lumiere in Disney's Beauty and Beast films, supplies the voice of the French parrot Pierre in this revamped version of the Tiki Room.

The voices of Jose, Michael, and Fritz are supplied, respectively, by Disney mainstays Wally Boag, Fulton Burley and Thurl Ravenscroft. The show features 314 figures including flowers, statues and birds. The attraction's well-known theme song, "In the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room," was written, like many other Disney classics, by Richard and Robert Sherman.

The Male Lion on Kilimanjaro Safari's

The one and only time I got onto Kilimanjaro Safari's at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom on this recent trip, the male lion was actually up and moving about. Unfortunately by the time I got in a position to photograph him, he was starting to sit down, which is what is captured in this photo. The brilliance of the sun shining from behind the wonderful beast makes for a brilliant photograph.

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The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia (where an endangered remnant population resides in Gir Forest National Park in India) while other types of lions have disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a major population decline of 30–50% over the past two decades[date missing] in its African range. Lion populations are untenable outside designated reserves and national parks. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are currently the greatest causes of concern. Within Africa, the West African lion population is particularly endangered.

Mickey's Scorcerers Hat

This is easily my favorite and my best photo of Mickey's Scorcerers Hat at Walt Disney Worlds Hollywood Studios. Taken before complete darkness falls in the night time sky, with the searchlights on behind it, and the "ears" lit up, this photo has everything you want in a Disney World photo. It is full of magic, color, and light.

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Spaceship Earth and Palm Trees

A very unique photo of Epcot's Spaceship Earth and some of Florida's palm trees. This is one of my best photo's that I have taken of Spaceship Earth at Epcot. The colors in this photo all blend together to make a very beautiful photo, with the green of the palm tree leaves, to the golden glow of Spaceship Earth, to the blue Florida sky and white wispy clouds, this photo will take you into it and make you feel the warm Florida air.

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Cinderella's Castle in the Sunshine

A beautiful photo of Cinderellas Castle taken from in front of the Sleepy Hollow restaurant at Walt Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom.

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EPCOT's Journey to Imagination

A coloful and robust photo of the Journey into Imagination building at Walt Disney Worlds EPCOT center.

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Snow White and the Prince from Fantasmic

A very unique and eye catching photo of Snow White and the Prince during a performance of Fantasmic at Disney Worlds Hollywood Studios.

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Expedition Everest Background

I took this photo of Expedition Everest using it as a backdrop to the beautiful red flowers hanging off a tree on our walkway.

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Pink Castle and a Colorful Sky

Cinderellas Castle is bathed in pink light as the sky behind it is a magical combination of dusk and an approaching storm.

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White Christmas Cinderella's Castle

I had never seen Cinderella's Castle done up this way before, with white lights and the Christmas Ice lights on it. I had seen in a couple of nights earlier as I was photographing the fireworks, but wasn't able to get a photo of it as it only stayed that color for a brief moment right after the last of the fireworks went off. But this time I was ready for it, and I captured this beautiful shot of Cinderella's Castle.

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Christmas Wishes Fireworks and Cinderella's Castle

In this beautiful fireworks photo from the Magic Kingdom theme park, Cinderella's Castle is lit up in a bright pink light and it's Christmas Ice lights with a big burst of fireworks exploding behind it in the night sky.

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The Original 7ven

This is my favorite track off of this album by the members of the original Time.

Condensate is the fifth solo album by the American funk ensemble now known as The Original 7ven and formerly known as The Time. Released on October 18, 2011, the album was the group's first release in 11 years. Condensate peaked at #58 on the Billboard 200 album chart and #10 on the U.S. R&B album chart. "#Trendin" was also released as a single and reached #77 on the U.S. R&B charts.

Carrie Underwood - Two Black Cadillacs

Two Black Cadillacs is a song released by the American country recording artist Carrie Underwood. It was written by Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Josh Kear. It was released as the third single from Underwood's fourth studio album, Blown Away, on November 26. Underwood announced the single on her official Twitter account. Underwood debuted the song with a performance at the 40th American Music Awards on November 18, 2012. "Two Black Cadillacs" speaks of a married woman planning on killing her cheating husband with a mistress. Apparently, the mistress did not know the man was married. After the wife learns of the affair, she and the mistress plan to kill the man because of his actions. The woman and mistress had never actually met, but they first made contact when the wife discovered the mistress' number on the husband's cell phone two months prior to the murder. After the killing, both women travel separately in two black Cadillac automobiles (hence the song's title) heading to the funeral, where they meet for the first and only time. How the two women killed the man is never specified in the song. "The song itself is so visual that I feel you can fill in the blanks and let your imagination do the work when you listen to it. You can come up with this really dark story about a guy who pissed off the wrong women!" Underwood says, laughing. "It’s just juicy and good."

Gary Clark Jr - Blak and Blu

Bruno Mars - Young Girls

"Young Girls" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, from his second studio album Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). The song was written by Jeff Bhasker, Emiley Haynie, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine, while production was handled by Bhasker, Haynie and The Smeezingtons. "Young Girls" is a midtempo pop, R&B and rock ballad about how he can't help but succumb to the dubious charms of young girls. It received favorable reviews from music critics, who noted that it is a "sweet and enjoyable" track, while also praising Mars's vocals. It charted in some countries, such as Australia, Canada, France, South Korea and UK.

Andy Allo - Superconductor

I seriously can't get enough of this song. It reminds me of some of Prince's earlier songs he wrote for Apollonia 6, but in Andy Allo, he has a MUCH better singer and protege.