It is the beginning of March and time for an installment of my favorite Panama City area photographs from the past couple months. After a quiet winter, tourists are finally starting to hit the beach again. The air is warming up, it is almost time to spring forward and I am hopeful about the year.
As a Panama City editorial photographer I long for those long days of summer. In order to take a photograph one needs some source of light. The longer the day the more chances there are to take photographs! Goodbye to those pitch-black at 5:00 winter days and hello to sunsets at 8:30 days. While we all await summer, enjoy a few of my favorite photos from January, February and March of 2016.
At top right, Luna, a 10-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, swims with her newborn calf at Gulf World Marine Park in Panama City Beach. (Panama City Beach Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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A redbud tree blooms in Panama City. (Panama City Editorial Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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Liz Van Horn enjoys the afternoon in Panama City Beach. (Panama City Editorial Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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Lycan, a Belgian Malinois, waits for a command from his handler, Dept. Nick Hall, at the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Lynn Haven. (Panama City Editorial Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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Shunkaha Patterson, right, splashes Graylin Johnson with cool Gulf of Mexico water in Panama City Beach. (Panama City Editorial Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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Honey bees are displayed during the Vanishing of the Bees seminar at TechFarms in Panama City Beach. (Panama City Editorial Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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A surfer heads into the water in Panama City Beach. (Panama City Editorial Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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Clarissa Harris/Custer, 11, reacts as she is picked up by Paul Fowler, left, and Gabriel Moschella during a tour of the Bay County Emergency Operations Center in Southport. (Panama City Editorial Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)
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The Panama City 9/11 Memorial is silhouetted against the sky in Panama City. (Panama City Photographer | Andrew Wardlow)