Tarpon Springs

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Tarpon Springs was first inhabited in 1876 by Mary Ormond and her dad who built a little cabin near Spring Bayou, and eventually they were joined by her soon-to-be husband, J.C. Boyer, who sailed in from Nassau. Mary named the settlement Tarpon Springs, in 1879, even though it was schools of mullet, not tarpon, that jumped into the air and performed for her as she watched from her porch. It was only a year after, with the state of Florida on the verge of bankruptcy, when industrialist Hamilton Disston, purchased four million acres of central west coast, including Tarpon Springs, to launch his saw mill and supporting commerce. He paid the Governor 25 cents per acre!! Soon a lucrative sponge processing commerce emerged and eventually the community because known as a top Winter Resort Spot.

Your instructor will guide you through a myriad of photo ops from charming architecture to beach scenes and birds to environmental portraiture. The scenes that are there for your camera inspired world renown painters George Innes and George Innes Jr., back when the Ormond’s settled the village.

Call Digital Photo Academy at 1 877 372 2231. Lots of people seem to hang up if our welcome recording comes on instead of a live voice, but we promise to return your message within a day or two if you leave one with your name and number.  It would be even better if you included your e mail address as well as the date and city of the class you are considering.  If leaving a voice mail message is not your thing, please email us at DPAbooking@digitalphotoacademy.com or Richard@digitalphotoacademy.com.

Gloria’s Gifts
793 Dodecanese Blvd.
Tarpon Springs , FL 34689