Breathtaking Sunday Sunset Panorama Tampa Bay Florida At Apollo Beach Home - IMRAN®

Breathtaking Sunday Sunset Panorama Tampa Bay Florida At Apollo Beach Home - IMRAN®  

© 2025 IMRAN®

Berlin Aquarium — From Cold War Scaffolds 1987 to Peaceful Pulse 2012 – IMRAN®

Berlin Aquarium — From Cold War Scaffolds 1987 to Peaceful Pulse 2012 – IMRAN®

Aquarium Berlin, end of April, 2012. The crocodiles no longer flinch at sirens, and the jellyfish pulse in peace. But I still see the scaffolding of 1987—when West Berlin was a fortress of defiance, and I stood outside this very complex, a guest of a divided nation, predicting its impossible reunion.

Back then, as I was turning 25, the Crocodile Hall had only just reopened, scarred by Allied bombs and Cold War silence. Now, the glass glistens with quiet grace. The murals speak in color what the walls once held in tension. And the light post I framed in the foreground—whether original or reborn—marks the spot where I once stood, hoping one day they'd trace the light back to me.

I returned not to marvel at marine life, but to trace the emotional sediment of a city that once mirrored my own need to be set free from the shackles of the now-dead dictator General Zia's vile, fundamentalism-breeding regime in my motherland in the 1980s.

Over those 25 years, the two halves of Berlin reunited and healed. I too endured, and continued my journey through MySpaceTime. By the grace of God, I achieved great freedoms to be all I want to be. Although it is a surreal irony that now, in 2025, it is the United States that is losing its freedoms—to Nazi-loving, Russia-controlled enemies of democracy.

© 2012–2025 IMRAN®

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Balancing Between Light and Darkness – A Stunning Sunset on Foreboding Days, Long Island, First Week of 2010 - IMRAN®

Balancing Between Light and Darkness – A Stunning Sunset on Foreboding Days, Long Island, First Week of 2010 - IMRAN®

The scars of the economic collapse lingered in the air—an unsettling hush after the storm of hardship brought by the reckless tax cuts and economic policies of George W. Bush. We face even greater dangers today, in 2025, but I remain hopeful that we will endure the latest attacks on poor people and the working class.
Though the first signs of recovery had begun in 2009, the weight of despair was still crushing, and hope felt like a distant whisper.
Yet, on that fateful evening, the heavens painted a masterpiece of resilience before my very eyes. Standing on the boardwalk at my beloved Long Island home, I captured an unedited, breathtaking sunset through the lens of my Nikon D300—an image that mirrored my own journey.
The golden sun, defiant and determined, struggled to pierce the ominous veil of swirling clouds above. Below, the marshlands—mysterious, untamed, dangerous—stood as silent witnesses to the battle between light and darkness. The day itself was unusual, with temperatures locked at a frozen equilibrium, both high and low at 34°F, refusing to budge.
In the midst of nature’s restless turmoil, I held onto faith. Even in those darkest days, I knew that light would return—not just in the sky, but in my life. And by the grace of the Almighty, brighter days did come. What followed were moments of clarity and renewal, both literally and figuratively—a reminder of the strength found in belief, perseverance, and the enduring power of hope.

© 2010-2025 IMRAN®

Setting Fire To The Rain - IMRAN™

Setting Fire To The Rain - IMRAN™

There were weather systems on the flight from Long Island, New York, to Tampa Bay, Florida, tonight. Instead of flying south along the eastern seaboard of the United States with views of the Atlantic Ocean coastline, we had to detour around a few areas. Flying into the sun heading out to the Gulf of Mexico, right past sunset over Carter’s Lake in Georgia, south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the sunlight seemed to set the clouds on fire above — with cool darkness falling below this evening. 

© 2024 IMRAN™ 

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Tiara Condo Singer Island Former Florida Second Home Visit After 8 Years, 12 Years Ago - IMRAN™

Tiara Condo Singer Island Former Florida Second Home Visit After 8 Years, 12 Years Ago - IMRAN™

In my 35 years of American life, I have been blessed to have lived in Florida in parallel for about 20 of those years. My first "second home" in Florida was at this incredible building called Tiara Condo on the Atlantic Ocean, on Singer Island. I purchased it in 2003.

My condo was just a few floors below the rooftop spaceship like circular wraparound private restaurant and club. I sold it in 2004 and left early morning July 4th, 2004. I drove to Atlanta to be on CNN live that afternoon. And then drove on back to my New York home. 

Soon after I sold, the Tiara was devastated by two separate hurricanes. A lot of people lost everything they had in those incidents. It took years to rebuild. But I was living and working in Miami in those years. 

Eight years after I sold, I was blessed to be looking to buy another second-home. During that 2012 two-three months of driving every mile of Florida coastline, looking at possible places.

Obviously, my beloved Tiara condo was one of the places on that list. So, I was back there looking at mine, and other, condos. I also stuck around until dusk to experience that magic I loved at the start of this century. 

I made this short video of the building, from the wide beach outside it. The magical Atlantic Ocean colors were still visible in the near-dark conditions. The pink clouds above were beautiful. Ironically, you can see the lights on in the condo I so loved.

Much that I loved the place and that feeling, the seller's asking price of $650,000 for a 2-bedroom condo did not make sense to me. So, I left one more time. Maybe I will return another day.

A dozen years after my visit, and a full 20 years after I sold my condo, I am sharing these magical memories and story. I hope you find it touching and inspiring. 

© 2004-2012-2024 IMRAN™  

Magnificent Late October Tampa Bay Sunset Five Years Ago At Apollo Beach Home 360°x360° - IMRAN™

Magnificent Late October Tampa Bay Sunset Five Years Ago At Apollo Beach Home 360°x360° - IMRAN™

This perfect moment of tranquility was captured with 2GB worth of Nikon D850 handheld photos. It was autumn and the last week of October 2018 was coming up.

I took exactly 4 dozen photos as accurately as I could, trying to keep my hands steady and arms level. I did that while turning full 360 three times hoping to not move too much from the spot I started at. I wanted to catch all the details top to bottom, and all around, even though some of the edges get messed up when handheld photos are stitched. 

It is ironic that 2GB of photos must be reduced into a 5MB or so image for Facebook to accept. In the full image, especially on a large screen TV, you would see this 30,000 x 150,000 pixels image as if you were standing here next to me.

You can see my Yamaha WaveRunner jet ski, which was lost after a storm a few years later. The DJI Phantom 4 drone stood on dock ready on deck  for a sunset flight. 

A boat was passing my dock heading home. This was just four months before I would get Kennedy, my German Shepherd Dog you all know, as well as K2 a year after that.

© 2018-2024 IMRAN™

Please Partake Pretty Pink Pastels Perfect Personal Paradise Phone Pano Presentation - IMRAN™

Please Partake Pretty Pink Pastels Perfect Personal Paradise Phone Pano Presentation - IMRAN™ 

Just take a deep breath and walk with my dogs and me to my dock. Come with me and savor last evening’s perfect pink and blue pastel shades spanning the sky at Apollo Beach on Tampa Bay. Soak in the sweet magic of nature you’ll love being covered in. 

Facebook shows full sphere panorama pictures but it doesn’t display my fun 360x360 videos. So I’m sharing the flat vertical view by key framing the best parts of the full view. It was tranquil but you can hear some wind. 

© 2022 IMRAN™ 

#Florida, #TampaBay, #ApolloBeach, #IMRAN, #sunset, #Maghreb, #360x360, , #HDR, #clouds, #dusk, #shadows, #magic, #miracles, #gratitude, #blessed, #swimmingpool, #homesweethome, #Insta360, #GSD, #germanshepherds , #boardwalk #architecture, #boating, 

God's Million Painting In One Sunset Tampa Bay (Timelapse Music Video) - IMRAN™

God's Million Painting In One Sunset Tampa Bay (Timelapse Music Video) - IMRAN™

**Please enjoy on the largest screen you can see it on, with audio.** 

Each sunset photo I have ever posted of Tampa Bay Florida sunsets, I often called them paintings by God. Well, this 30-seconds music video Nikon D850 timelapse of a 90-minutes sunset & dusk will show you a million paintings and colors. 

Both the original music clip created for this video and the video itself are by yours truly - but the miracles are all by the Almighty God to whom I bow my head in prayer and gratitude five times a day, especially at Maghreb as the sun sets. 

© 2022 IMRAN™  

Stunning Summer Sunset Mellow Magical MoonFall - IMRAN™

Stunning Summer Sunset Mellow Magical MoonFall - IMRAN™

It may be impossible to have two hours to spare to watch a golden Tampa Bay afternoon sky turn into a stunning summer sunset and mellow magical moon-fall. It is impossible not to be blown away by watching it in less than one minute in this HDR timelapse music video I created to share with you. Come, experience everything with me here.

© 2021 IMRAN™

See Sea Green Light Heavy Dark Monsters At Bright Stunning Dusk Tampa Bay (SOOC) - IMRAN™

See Sea Green Light Heavy Dark Monsters At Bright Stunning Dusk Tampa Bay (SOOC) - IMRAN™

This is actually an unedited, SOOC (straight out of camera), five years old DJI Phantom 4 drone video clip. It was recorded after a sunset Livestream flight at my blessed home on Tampa Bay, Florida in 2016. I have these two green LEDs (which I have had to replace many times over the years) that I sometimes turn on to enjoy the schools of fish that populate these waters in Apollo Beach. The mind-blowing sunset and dramatic dusk colors just make this scene otherworldly especially when you can make out the shapes and shadows of some of the monstrous seafood around the green lights. If you look in the middle of the frame you can also see the new moon. What a moment of gratitude I was blessed to experience. © 2016-2021 IMRAN™ #aerial, #ApolloBeach, #Clouds, #DJI, #drone, #Fish, #Flight, #Florida, #Flying, #GreenLight, #IMRAN, #ImranAnwar, #Movie, #NewMoon, #noedit, #Phantom4, #SOOC, #TampaBay, #fishing, #gratitude,

Sun Down, Tempo Up - IMRAN™

Sun Down, Tempo Up - IMRAN™
Watch another "routine" spectacular Florida sunset unfold over Tampa Bay. As Friday after Thanksgiving came to an end, I shot this quick timelapse with the Nikon D850 just as the sun was setting. Sun down, tempo up, the clouds sped up -- as did the number of boats that went past my lens on this holiday weekend.

© 2020 IMRAN™

#ApolloBeach, #autumn, #Boating, #Boats, #Clouds, #Dusk, #Florida, #IMRAN, #Lifestyle, #MusicVideo, #seaside, #Sunset, #TampaBay, #TGIF, #Thanksgiving, #TimeLapse

2019 Beautiful Boating Blue Bay BCI Beach BC Before COVID 19 - IMRAN™

2019 Beautiful Boating Blue Bay BCI Beach BC Before COVID 19 - IMRAN™

Even though this was just over a year ago, in some ways it looks like a different era. Mid-May 2019, I captured this video in a short live stream on my jetski bobbing on the wakes and waves of Tampa Bay boaters next to Beer Can Island's beach on the east side.

© 2019-2020 IMRAN™

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Incredible Inspirational Ideas Terrific Timelapse Tampa Bay Boating Beautiful Sunset Scene Shared - IMRAN™

Incredible Inspirational Ideas Terrific Timelapse Tampa Bay Boating Beautiful Sunset Scene Shared - IMRAN™ (Inspiration Words, Music Video)

A foreboding mood settled on the horizon while the bright blue sky above tried to liven it up below. The deep red bled from the sky was bleeding into the melting gold, like the way men throughout history have shed the blood of others to gain wealth and power. The onshore wind slapped the water into a persistent pattern of little crests and troughs, each a tiny tempest in its own world, yet totally insignificant on the ocean of time.  The palm trees danced a frenzied dance wanting to fly responding to the wild wind but rooted forever in the circumstance of their existence. Yet, it all comes together, like a miracle, when all these elements, and forces of light and dark, movement and stillness, unite to hasten the end of the darkness, in preparation for a new day's dawn shared by all of them. All of us. Let us unite again, as Americans, as Pakistanis, as earth-dwellers, and as humans, to start a new chapter before the end of the year.
I hope you enjoy this music video The horizon was a little more darkly cloudy than I would have preferred for it to be a long drawn out colors sunset and dusk. But who am I to complain when the result is still so much to be grateful for. This is a timelapse video made from literally almost 2000 individual photos taken by the Nikon D850. Each image was 25-30 MB so that would have taken forever to process. I just wanted to test how the results would be, so I actually made this from images just 5-10% of the original size.

© 2020 IMRAN™

#ApolloBeach, #Boating, #Boats, #Clouds, #D850, #Dusk, #Florida, #gratitude, #IMRAN, #Lifestyle, #Night, #nightfall, #Nikon, #reflections, #seaside, #Sunset, #TampaBay, #timelapse, #Waves, #inspiration, #life, #motivation, #leadership, #politics, #metaphors, #prose, #literature, #elections, #Pakistan, #America

Osprey Soars Over Stunning Sunset Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™

A gorgeous moment in time as an osprey, ready to dive in, hovers over its prey in Tampa Bay waters just as the bay gets ready to devour the sun ready to dive into the oceans of time.

© 2019 IMRAN™

Ocean Of Tears, Memories Of Beloved Parents - Miami, Florida Sunset - IMRAN™

10 Years Tribute Post: "Nearly 30 days after the loss of my father, and a few days shy of the anniversary of my mother's untimely death at age 51, the waters of Biscayne Bay and Atlantic Ocean, with a blood red sunset, cried an ocean of hot tears in my soul."

© 2009-2018 IMRAN™

Blessed Castle By The Sea Of Love Under The Sky Of Bright Passions & Dark Desires - IMRAN™

The magic of dusk, when moist pink passions lusciously innocently but tremblingly knowingly embrace the deep dark blue depths of desires and surrender with bold blind total submission to their chosen master, lover, and more.... gasping, “Take us, in every sense, in every way, and bend us as you will, to your every will, every wish, every command, every moment of night and day, and fill us, with every thrust, with every push, with every pull, with waves of love from your sea of love, that quench our thirsts in shared moments of ecstasy, to be replaced by our hungers for more, and more, and more. Let us come, to, with, and for you, our master, lover, ....and more!” ❤️❤️💙❤️❤️

© 2018 IMRAN™

Sunset Boardwalk Beach Walk. Deer. ParaGliders. Long Island. LiveStream - IMRAN™

Sunset Boardwalk Beach Walk. Deer. ParaGliders. Long Island. LiveStream - IMRAN™

Come along for a walk on my boardwalk in New York as a beautiful Long Island sunset acts as a backdrop for exciting views of a powered parachute flying by while I get up close and personal with a mama deer and her baby.

Then watch birds and boats pass by me at the beach while the colors of dusk fill the sky.

© 2017 IMRAN™

Terrific Tuesday Boardwalk Sunset Walk Marina To Beach At Long Island Home New York - IMRAN™

 

Come along for a walk enjoying the beautiful landscape and nature's tranquility at my blessed home. Even better for you, you won't be bitten by gnats as I was being eaten alive by them during this livestream. LOL.

You'll also love this highlights music video. https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10155754333871155 also!

© 2017 IMRAN™

Relax In 4 Minutes! Enjoy Setting Sun On Tampa Bay Florida At My Home & ...

Moody on Monday? Wishing weekend was longer? Sensing stress? Take 4 minutes to stop what you're doing, and come sit by my swimming pool at my Apollo Beach, Florida, home.
Watch a stunning golden sunset form over Tampa Bay, while a relaxing tune 'Lovers Seeking Moonlight' ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ntrance-to-tunnel-of-love/id1090633937# ) soothes your jangled nerves, and relaxes your soul.
Watch the speed at which the wind carries the clouds. This is not a timelapse. It is the actual speed the wind was carrying them. That is why I left the sound of the wind in the video a little bit. Watch the pelicans fly by you, and ospreys hover above you.
Enjoy and buy some music from my CD, "nTrance To Tunnel Of Love". Check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ntrance-to-tunnel-of-love/id1090633937 . I give 100% of the proceeds to charity.
Let me know how you feel. And share with your friends who could use some R&R regardless of where they are stuck!

© 2017 IMRAN™

New Moon At Golden Dusk Over Golden Gate Bridge(s) Day & Night - IMRAN™

There are so many different vantage points and so many different lighting conditions to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. I have always only managed to catch a quick shot now and then during usually hurried short trips there for the last 26 years. This one was a particular stunning sight as the golden pink dusk settled in over the dark silhouette of the mountains and the new moon was sharply visible in the sky as bright as the headlights of drivers making their way across the bridge. As the monumental structures bridged the cities across the bay, the moon and dusk bridged the ending day and coming night.

© 2015 IMRAN
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