Art Becomes Him

Art Becomes Him
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Andrew Reybitz looks at "Molecular Totem," a clay sculpture by Douglas S. Bringle, while attending the 33rd Annual Art Festival at Temple Beth-El with his wife, Marcia Reybitz, on Sunday, the first day it was open to the public. The show is an indoor and outdoor, judged art exhibit and sale featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by over 150 national and international artists. (Times photo by David Zentz)

Life Mimics Art

Life Mimics Art
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Elaine Wides appears to be dancing along with artist Jie Zhou's "Red Dancer" as she helps set up for the 33rd Annual Art Festival at Temple Beth-El on Monday. The show is an indoor, judged art exhibit and sale featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by over 150 national and international artists.

Dance Eclectic

Dance Eclectic
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Ray Carpenter dances with Elizabeth Edelson during the Ms. Wheelchair Florida Pageant 2006 at the Hilton in St. Petersburg Saturday night. Edelson is the artistic director and founder of the Asher Dance Eclectic, a mixed-mobility dance company based in Tampa.

Harping On

Harping On
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Paul Barlow, 78, plays the harmonica at the Shady Oaks RV Park community center in Zephyrhills on Sunday evening. A retired mail carrier from Lakeland, the park resident of six years has been playing since he was 10 years old.

Climbing to the Top

Climbing to the Top
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Gabriella Boyle, 5, works her way to the highest tier of the chin-up bars on the beach at North Shore Park on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon. Although the weather was perfect and she was having a great time with her father, Eddie Boyle, he said she was wearing him out and they were about to go back home to watch football. (Times photo by David Zentz)

Missing a Friend

Missing a Friend
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As the gospel hymn "In the Garden" plays, Emily Labart, 15, left, and her mother, Eleanor Labart, 44, cry while taking part in a candlelight vigil with friends and family of Sandra Hamby Prince, 59, in front of her home in Temple Terrace. Eleanor Labart has known her as a co-worker at the Agency fo Community Treatment Services for ten years. Prince disappeared three weeks ago. (Times photo by David Zentz)

Reflecting on his Art

Reflecting on his Art
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Dave Kent, 60, uses a hand-held mirror to examine the perspective of a painting he is working on as he and his friend, Scott West, paint the scenery of Old Tampa Bay along the north side of Gandy Blvd. on Saturday afternoon. "I see mistakes that I wouldn't see without it," Kent says of the mirror. He and West are both psychotherapists from Lakeland who share an interest in painting and travel mostly in Florida, but as far away as New York, to work on landscapes. While West has been painting for about ten years, Kent has been doing so since his late twenties, having studied as an abstract artist at New York University and at the Art Students League in New York before moving on to what he said was a more lucrative endeavor. (Times photo by David Zentz)

Grumpy Monday

Grumpy Monday
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Despite the beautiful weather and getting to watch a parade rather than attend school, Nadia Robinson, 9, makes a grumpy face while watching the Martin Luther King Day parade on Monday. Droves of people came downtown to watch hundreds of performers and participants from schools and organizations from all around the Tampa Bay area. (Times photo by David Zentz)

MLK Trumpets

MLK Trumpets
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Members of the MLK Marching Lions marching band hold their trumpets in the parking lot of Tropicana Field prior to the start of the Martin Luther King Day parade on Monday. Droves of people came downtown to watch hundreds of performers and participants from schools and organizations from all around the Tampa Bay area. (Times photo by David Zentz)

Eastern Stars

Eastern Stars
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Dorothy Robinson, Elizabeth Mosley and Essie Evans, of the St. Petersburg chapter of the Order of Eastern Star fraternal organization, wave to the crowds along Central Ave during the Martin Luther King Day parade on Monday. Droves of people came downtown to watch hundreds of performers and participants from schools and organizations from all around the Tampa Bay area. (Times photo by David Zentz)

Glitter and Gold

Glitter and Gold
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Savannah Crawford, 7, front left, Shana Few, 9, center, and other members of the Belle Terrace Marching Unit applaud as performers line up at the start of the Martin Luther King Day parade in the parking lot of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg on Monday. Droves of people came downtown to watch hundreds of performers and participants from schools and organizations from all around the Tampa Bay area. (Times photo by David Zentz)

It's a Bird 2

It's a Bird 2
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A seagull takes off from Bay Pier in Ft. DeSoto Park, St. Petersburg, Fla., on a dreary New Year's Day.

Wet Poodle

Wet Poodle
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With a hand from his mother, Heather Biggs, Devin White, 11, dries off his grandmother's poodle, Maurice, after the two went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico at Dog Beach in Ft. DeSoto Park on New Year's Day as a dreary drizzle begins to fall. White was visiting his mother and grandmother in St. Petersburg and, despite the gloomy weather, was set on getting some swimming in before heading home to his father in San Francisco on Monday. Shortly after, the family headed home to warm up Maurice, who was shivering from the cold water. (Times photo by David Zentz)