1 Minute Tampa Bay Florida Stunning Red Sunset Boating Livestream - IMRAN™

1 Minute Tampa Bay Florida Stunning Red Sunset Boating Livestream - IMRAN™
I just wanted to do a quick, barely one minute, livestream to play for you tonight's sunset. It was SO red against a pink sky that even the Nikon D850, which I did not get a chance to change the settings of from a photoshoot last night, was showing the red sun as golden yellow. But the much greater detail is obvious when you see the small bird sitting atop the channel marker. © 2019 IMRAN™

See 7 (Seas) Dolphins & A Stingray Together In Drone Flying Livestream With Kennedy At Tampa Bay Florida Sunset - IMRAN™

You will LOVE this music video created out of a longer livestream but sped up, but giving you perfect views of magical creatures. The music is my original composition, Rendezvous Plan, which is for my second music album. Here is the background of the video. It was still an hour before sunset when I saw some dolphins pass by my dock. By the time I got my drone from inside, got it going, and airborne, the dolphins had split into two groups. One went west in the shallow area and a group of seven went north, which is what I tracked in the drone flight livestream. On the iPhone X screen it was difficult to see if there were five or six dolphins. My friend Ronah, watching the livestream, posted a comment that she saw six. Later, I watched the recorded video on a larger monitor and in this one moment I saw seven dolphins, as a couple became more visible a couple were going deeper into the water made brackish by a month of torrential rains. But the bonus was a stingray that also came into the frame. See that at https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV .


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Man & Dog At Home Outside The Home - IMRAN™

What a joy to be able to see this photo and bow my head in gratitude at what I am blessed to call home on Tampa Bay, in Apollo Beach, Florida. Kennedy and I went into the water as I flew the DJI Phantom 4 overhead for a moody dusk sunset livestream. I captured a few photos of us from different angles. This was stitched from 3 separate photos. Can you see Kennedy and me?

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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.

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Living Las Vegas: Sliver Of Creativity & Color At Bellagio - IMRAN™ (1)

 

 

 

 

 

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Living Las Vegas: Sliver Of Creativity & Color At Bellagio - IMRAN™ (1) A screenshot of a part of the stunning panorama made from 9 un-retouched, unedited and unprocessed in ANY way, iPhone X photos. The photos were SOOC (straight out of camera), and were simply auto-stitched in PhotoShop to make a magnificent panorama. This is just a sliver of the stunning scene inside the Bellagio, Las Vegas. That is one of my favorite hotels to stay at there. The dazzling display of explosive colors shower tranquility of a natural garden with the typical brash bold styles of Las Vegas.. . © 2018 IMRAN™ . #travel #lifestyle #adventure #blessings #LasVegas #nightlife #Nevada #SinCity #architecture #landmark #interiordesign #gambling #casino #events #lights #vegas #lasvegasstrip #perspective #iphoneX #IMRAN #bellagio #history #hotels

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A screenshot of a part of the stunning panorama made from 9 un-retouched, unedited and unprocessed in ANY way, iPhone X photos. The photos were SOOC (straight out of camera), and were simply auto-stitched in PhotoShop to make a magnificent panorama. Thus is just a sliver of the stunning scene inside the Bellagio, Las Vegas. That is one of my favorite hotels to stay at there. The dazzling display of explosive colors shower tranquility of a natural garden with the typical brash bold styles of Las Vegas.. 

© 2018 IMRAN™

#travel #lifestyle #adventure #blessings #LasVegas #nightlife #Nevada #SinCity #architecture #landmark #interiordesign #gambling #casino #events #lights #vegas #lasvegas #lasvegasstrip #perspective #iphoneX #IMRAN #bellagio #history #hotels (at Las Vegas, Nevada)

Throwing The Book (Of Opinions) On "Will Print Media Survive?" - IMRAN™

Throwing The Book (Of Opinions) On "Will Print Media Survive?" - IMRAN™
This is one of the questions I have seen asked for my literally 3 decades spent living in America (this coming week!) The irony of this question is that the words print and media have some overlap. Media, as in the industry encompassing information, news, knowledge, views, commentary, and print, a medium of distributing that content.
So, if the question is, will the “media” (industry) survive…… indeed, the answer is Yes, the real problem of fascism style labeling of real news as fake news and real(ly) fake news as (alternative?) facts notwithstanding, Will PRINT as a medium used by the media (industry) survive, is a more complex one. In the long run (when we are all dead anyway, as John Maynard Keynes said and wrote, ironically, in print, a long time ago), the pace of innovation, the sheer volume of information and knowledge, the staggering number of content types, content creators, and content creators, will make it practically impossible to rely on printed paper as the mainstream mass-use medium.
There are not enough trees, one could say, to sustain that volume of paper production, without destroying the remaining forests of the planet, regardless of how much reforestation gets done. Also, if we look at the real long run, when increasing numbers of us will be able to explore space travel, there is just no practical sense in bringing printing equipment on space rockets and even spaceships, much less trees and other plant forms to produce traditional paper. Plus, the amount of information we are already used to having at our fingertips just would not translate into printed paper as a practical means to carry it around.
Having said that, however, I will also say this, or as another great mind said last century or even earlier, predictions of the death of paper/print are exaggerated. When computers came on the scene, with dot matrix, inkjet, laser and color laser printers soon following, the actual production and consumption of paper grew massively.
That rate of growth, especially in a planet starved of space to store the paper, or grow the raw materials for paper, plus a species (not)hell-bound on finding new places to live on in space, will not be sustainable. So, I see traditional, especially high quality paper based printing becoming a growth industry, where the vanity of having a hardbound book rather than just being the author of an eBook, will ensure its survival for a while, much like vinyl albums are still around despite higher resolution audio sampling of today’s digital music libraries fitting in our back pockets.
Another interesting twist may be the very notion of paper to be printed on. If the current pace of innovation continues, what is to keep us from not having literally infinite printed books, where the actual electronic screens become so thin and so embedded into plant and forest based paper pages, that we could still be holding a paper book or two in hand, where flipping pages gives the tactile experience we are used to for millennia, but with all the words of the universe surrounding us in an invisible omnipresent network.
What do you think?

Imran Anwar
Tampa Bay, Florida
12/31/2018

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Lovers Cry Out In Unison At Dusk, As Pelican At Singing Sunset Hovers Like Humming Birds - IMRAN™

Lovers Cry Out In Unison At Dusk, As Pelican At Singing Sunset Hovers Like Humming Birds - IMRAN™

Sunsets sometimes sing silently, as flapping pelicans in a chorus hover across the crescendos of red and gold clouds,. The dusk settles into its gentle chorus, singing a sweet lullaby of love and passion, odes to dreams and desires, unloading beams of lights and hard shafts of shadows, as the sultry night serenades the hot sun, and the wetness of Tampa Bay is coated in the hues of solitude, soaking in the whiteness of life into the blend of ecstasy, Come, my loves, be mine, at sunset, where fantasy becomes reality, and reality becomes you, and you become mine.

© 2018 IMRAN™

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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."

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Terrific Thanksgiving Tampa Bay Beautiful Boating Wonderful Weekend Weather - IMRAN™

I hope you all had an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and loved ones. I was blessed enough to spend it at my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida. After nearly 6 or more weeks I was able to make time to get out on the water and enjoy the absolutely perfect boating weather that Tampa Bay offers almost year-round. This is just a quick spin on the jet ski as I was coming back home from a great time and ride out to beer can Island.

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#Florida #TampaBay #ApolloBeach #boating #JetSki #homes #realestate #luxury #blessings #luxurylife #Thanksgiving #weekend #holiday #Beach #beachlife #bluesky #bluewater #seaside #adventure #gratitude #IMRAN #architecture #lifestyle

Spectacular Sweet Sunset Terrific Tampa Tuesday Lovely Landscape LivesStream - IMRAN™

Enjoy this view of the stunning Tampa Bay Florida sunset tonight at Apollo Beach.

I used the Nikon D850 video mode. Because I had to twist the zoom lens by hand in a few places you will see the video wiggle. But what gorgeous colors at this place I am blessed to live in.

Come, experience the magic with me.

© 2018 IMRAN™

Tampa Bay Flats Spin Apollo Beach Florida.- IMRAN™

Many of us became aware of the term flat spin from the deadly scene in Top Gun, when Tom Cruise's F14 TomCat loses airflow over the wings and spins flat down to the sea.

Thankfully there was no flat spin, nor any crash in water, in the filming of this aerial spin drone flying quick view of the flats on Tampa Bay at Apollo Beach, across from my blessed home.

It was a 45 seconds clip but I sped it up to save you time. :-) It was part of my livestream today which got disconnected a minute into the video.

I will share one by one the main clips I happened to have hit record on during flight. I hope you enjoy this virtual visit in visual reality.

© 2018 IMRAN™

International / Man (Of) / Mystery / Journey Part 2 - IMRAN™

Every journey continues with....

Step 2.... Spot 2...

Departing Tampa International Airport Florida.

All wordplay combinations intended.

Guess where I’m going & post in comments.

Who wants to come with me? 😄

Previous step of the story: https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10156497000566155

Next step: https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10156499087786155

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International / Man (Of) / Mystery / Journey - IMRAN™

Every journey begins with....

Step 1.... Spot 1...

Leaving home, Apollo Beach Florida.

All wordplay combinations intended.

Guess where I’m going & post in comments.

Who wants to come with me? 😄

 

© 2018IMRAN™

Tampa Bay Sunset At Blessed Home Apollo Beach Florida - IMRAN™

Spectacular sunset at blessed home in Apollo Beach before my departure on a trip to....

(See https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10156497000566155 ) 😊

© 2018 IMRAN™

Tiniest Technical Trouble Can Spell Random Catastrophe For A Person & Their Loved Ones - IMRAN™

I was saddened to read this breaking #news from NBC News. "One killed as Southwest Airlines' Boeing jet makes emergency landing in Philadelphia".
The cause is not yet unknown and I am no aviation accident expert, but the photos show some sort of apparent catastrophic engine failure shredding the engine and pieces of it ripping into the cabin.
I regularly fly #Southwest in and out of LaGuardia Airport so I can imagine how random this was and how it could happen to anybody.
RIP lost fellow flier that lost their life today.
I wonder if #Trump will take responsibility for this considering he claimed credit for there being no airline fatalities last year.

©2018 IMRAN™

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New Year's Day First Sunset & Full Moonrise At Dusk Over Frozen Seaside Long Island NY - IMRAN™

I cannot describe how frigid and frostbite inducing cold the weather was on this New Year's Day as I drove from my East Patchogue home to Bellport dock on Long Island in New York. 
The Great South Bay had been frozen solid for a few days. There were some parts of water visible here but at my home beach sheets of ice several feed high were piled on where the sandy beach was supposed to be. Even in the few minutes I stood there to record some videos and take some photos, I was feeling my hands losing all feelings. 
You can see how the first sunset of the new year also coincided with the blood red full super blue moon which was rising on the other side. Other brave souls, more bundled up than me, had even come with tripods to capture the moment to remember forever. 
I am so blessed to have seen such magical creations of God.

© 2018 IMRAN™

Truth Is Black And White, Justice And (Statute Of) Liberty For All - IMRAN™

This is a screen capture of a very low resolution video I shot with a 10 years old camera while flying over Manhattan very recently. It was cloudy, it was dusk, and it was a gloomy day overall. The plane window was not that clear either and this was just a video clip I accidentally recorded for 1 second while trying to take a still photo. But, this shot was worth extracting and sharing. The simple truth is clear as Black and White, even at the gloomiest of times. Justice and (Statute Of) Liberty are for all humankind.
© 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™

Symphony Isles Christmas Lights Drive Home - IMRAN™

I am blessed to have a second home in this wonderful community called Symphony Isles, in a little piece of heaven called Apollo Beach, in a magical land known as Florida, in a great nation called the United States of America.
As a Muslim obviously Christmas is not a religious holiday to me (nor does it have anything to do with the birth date of Jesus Christ) but I celebrate it as a national holiday in the USA as I did in Pakistan where it was the birthday of the founder of the nation, as well as my late mother's birthday.
I just wanted to share this quiet drive home through the neighborhood with its lovely holiday lights. I sped up the playback to save time, I was not speeding. LOL.
Enjoy a drive-by viewing, and the music video, which is a track from my CD: nTrance, available on iTunes, Spotify, etc.

© 2017 IMRAN™

Apple's Lame Apology After Getting Caught In BatteryGate - IMRAN™

Nope Apple, this "Apology After Getting Caught" is NOT going to make Consumer Protection & deliberate Customer Experience degradation lawsuits go away.

"A Message to Our Customers about #iPhone Batteries and Performance"
https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

Lame. Time for Tim Cook to go.

© 2017 IMRAN™