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Cocoa Village Saturday Art Market
Visit Space Coast · MYRT THARPE SQUARE, 12 Stone St, Cocoa, FL, 32922. Crowds, storefront light and colour at eye level; if the posted start is early, the same subject is better an hour before sunset. A recurring market is the low-risk version of this: it runs whether or not the forecast holds.
Go when recurring market repeats the same low-scarcity shot
741 subjects within two hours of Lakeland · 4 of them in season right now
This is the index built for the week of 2026-09-13, not this week — the newest one did not finish. The times below were computed for that week, so treat them as a guide rather than as tonight.
The index368
368 of 741 match, in the order they happen.
Each one is a subject, a spot, and the season it runs — grouped by how soon it matters. 4 of the 119 on the map are in season right now, in Jun. Say what is in your bag and it will tell you which of these your longest lens actually reaches.
Show me anythingwildlifenight skieswaterweathereventsbloomswithin any drive30 min60 min90 min120 minand anywherewhere I can flywhere flying might be allowed
No account needed — your kit stays in the address bar.
8 subjects in Jun, soonest first · open one to see what fires it
On now
Conditions are met, or the season is open. Go this week.
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Seifert79 · CC BY-SA 3.0Pre/post-tropical drama — Gulf skies and surfSunshine Skyway / Gulf piers · 60 min · drone noIn seasonnowFires when NHC active system in the Gulf (CurrentStorms.json)
Outflow clouds build exceptional sunsets 1-2 days ahead of landfall; post-storm surf at the Skyway. Never a fly-into-it signal.
In the next few weeks
Close enough to protect a date and book the time off.
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Sonny SideUp · CC BY 2.0Supermoon rises over the Tampa skylineBallast Point / Riverwalk sightlines · 45 min · drone check TPA gridOct 25in 3 weeksFires when full moon ≥ 360,000 km perigee from the celestial feed; azimuth aligned with a skyline sightline
Next Sun, Oct 25 — the full moon. Moon dates come from a mean lunar month and can be a day out; check before you commit a four-hour drive to one.
The size is the least of it. The picture is the moon against something built, which needs a sightline scouted in advance and a long lens from a long way back.
Further out
Not yet. Here so the year can be planned around it.
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Tom Lazar · CC0Swallow-tailed kites — arrival & courtshipCentral Florida (incl. over Lakeland) · 0 min · drone noMarseason opensFires when in season; aerial acrobatics anywhere in Central FL
The courtship flight is the shot and it happens anywhere overhead — the rare subject here you can take from your own driveway.
Shiva Shenoy from Flower Mound, United States · CC BY 2.0Saharan-dust sunsets, Gulf coastSt. Pete / north Gulf beaches · 55 min · drone 400 ft LAANCJunseason opensFires when aerosol optical depth > 0.3 AND mid/high cloud 30-70% AND low cloud < 25%
The dust that wrecks the air-quality index builds the year's most saleable skies.
Muhammadphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0Sea-breeze lightning over Tampa BayBallast Point Pier, Tampa · 45 min · drone noJunseason opensFires when CAPE > 2000 J/kg AND storms timed near dusk
Lightning capital of the US; cells fire 3-7p on a near-daily schedule. Shoot the anvil from range at blue hour — the forecast picks the day, never the strike.
a stand-in, not thisCorey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Jersey Boys - TampaCarol Morsani Hall - The Straz Center · 45 min · drone no — venues/crowdsJun 15, 2027in 9 monthsFires when touring musical at familiar hall, unpublished camera policy and low incremental novelty
Next Tue, Jun 15, 2027 — the published start time. Moon dates come from a mean lunar month and can be a day out; check before you commit a four-hour drive to one.
Wants 24–70mm at f/2.8 or faster, 1/160s wide aperture, high ISO for stage
Camera policy not published — check the venue before you pack. SeatGeek score 0/100 (broadway). The under-the-radar inventory lane — smaller venues mean closer working distance and cleaner sightlines than arena shows.
- a stand-in, not thisCorey Coyle · CC BY 3.0Jersey Boys - TampaCarol Morsani Hall - The Straz Center · 45 min · drone no — venues/crowdsJun 20, 2027in 9 months
Fires when second run of same touring musical at same hall days later, minimal incremental value
Next Sun, Jun 20, 2027 — the published start time. Moon dates come from a mean lunar month and can be a day out; check before you commit a four-hour drive to one.
Wants 24–70mm at f/2.8 or faster, 1/160s wide aperture, high ISO for stage
Camera policy not published — check the venue before you pack. SeatGeek score 0/100 (broadway). The under-the-radar inventory lane — smaller venues mean closer working distance and cleaner sightlines than arena shows.
When the conditions are not there, this says watch, not go — and names what is missing. A wrong moon or a front that never arrived is worth more to you than a confident guess.
The region119 spots
Everything within two hours of Lakeland.
- wildlife
- night skies
- water
- weather
- events
- blooms
- out of season
Ocala to Sarasota, coast to coast. The shaded ground is a two-hour drive from Lakeland on real roads, not a radius — generalised to about a mile for drawing. Dashed rings are 30, 60 and 90 minutes. Coastline from Natural Earth, served from a file in this repository: no tile vendor, no key, and nobody outside this site learns where you shoot.