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A bunch of girls from my job go on a different Caribbean cruise most every year. I am eternally grateful for my good friend Michael, talking me into joining them on their Island hopping cruise in 2007'. Not only did this, the first cruise he and I ever went on, provide him with some very well deserved rest, but the trip reacquainted me with my favorite hobby of photography, after over a 15 year absence from it. Trying out my little Fujifine Pix camera for the first time (purchased just for this type of occasion with help by a gift certificate from Michael!) I ended up taking pictures EVERYWHERE I went, and it helped lead me to buying my 1st DSLR a few months later. Here I came back to our room for a minute on our first full day at sea. I had already taken a bunch of shots around the ship after breakfast, and when I opened the door to our room, the first thing I saw was Michael out on the veranda finally getting to read the latest Harry Potter novel. He ran out and purchased it the very first day it hit the book stores. I'm not the huge "Potter" fan Michael is, so I can't remember just when that was, but I'm certain it was early in 07' and the cruise wasn't till October, which shows you how hectic his life usually is. I was doubly glad to see he took his novel out on the balcony but left his "To Do" list on the table inside. No one needs a list like that on a vacation, not even a small one, and I made sure to include it in this shot to record a moment of putting play before work, on one of those times when it's absolutely the right thing to do.
Having already contracted photographers fever from the moment I took my first shot with my little Fuji point & shoot, I kept wandering off and shooting everything in sight, loosing my friends on the cruise numerous times and it was only our 2nd day in the Caribbean. Not wanting to loose me yet again, this time on an island as big as St. Thomas, they all told me in no uncertain terms to stay RIGHT WITH THEM as we walked into a large wine shop. As fate would have it I looked out the only window I noticed in the whole darn place and spotted these boys in the alley outside, most of them posed more or less rigidly, waiting for their mom or dad to snap their picture. When I saw a few of them begin to relax and their attention start to drift away from starring, a little too stiffly for my taste, into the camera, I could see that they were about to display an honest piece of childlike behavior any second now. Face it kids are just not naturally patient. Now at this point I simply couldn't fight the urge any longer. (How can you put a camera in a photographers hands and stick an opportunity like this in front of their face and expect them NOT to take a picture??) About the time that the little boy on the far right started to stare at the man in costume instead of the camera, I raced outside, took one quick shot and raced right back inside before any of my friends could grab my arm and stop me. Heck, picture taking is what I do I can't help myself. Whenever any parents get back from their vacation and they see a picture like this of their kids having fun, it reminds them of why they went through all that time and expense of going on vacation in the first place. I don't even know them and I'm absolutely delighted they did.
The view of Dominica from the back of our ship was stunning, and I raced through the maze of deck chairs hoping to capture this fellow cruise mate gazing at the beautiful cottage dotted hills in the background. When I showed her this picture she loved it just as much as I did.
I easily took more pictures on Dominica than on any of the other 5 islands we visited on our cruise. The only type of shot I wanted to get that I failed in securing on the island was a shot of one of the locals doing some everyday task that had nothing to do with catering to we tourists. I almost captured a picture of two men tying up their goat, but I was a few seconds too late. Turns out these two guys cleaning their tour bus was the best I could do. It wasn't a well aged woman deftly weaving a basket, but I had to admit, it was still a pretty good shot none the less.
dscf_0418 schools out
DSCF_0878 fall fishing scene at Clove Lake
Sitting inside the ferryboat because of the rain, I spotted this interesting pair of umbrella's on display right in front of me, and they coaxed me to pull my point n' shoot camera out of my backpack.
IMG_0943 keeping warm and dry
Last year Josh, my good friend of over 20 years, and I took his son Tim (who's also my oldest godson) to Citifield. Being that it was the new ballparks first season and since we had never gone there yet, we wanted to take it in, and I brought along my camera to record the event. In addition to getting shots of the stadium and game action, I made sure to take several shots of Josh and Tim interacting in nice father & son moments, for Tim's mother's Toni who I knew would cherish the shots forever. (What mother wouldn't?) Here I just managed to race all the way back to my seat from taking pictures down around the field level along the right field corner, to capture Tim & Josh celebrating K-Rod's recording of the final out in a 5-3 win over the Nationals. Of the pictures I e-mailed her of her two men, this one was Toni's favorite - mine too.
A bunch of girls from my job go on a different Caribbean cruise most every year. I am eternally grateful for my good friend Michael, talking me into joining them on their Island hopping cruise in 2007'. Not only did this, the first cruise he and I ever went on, provide him with some very well deserved rest, but the trip reacquainted me with my favorite hobby of photography, after over a 15 year absence from it. Trying out my little Fujifine Pix camera for the first time (purchased just for this type of occasion with help by a gift certificate from Michael!) I ended up taking pictures EVERYWHERE I went, and it helped lead me to buying my 1st DSLR a few months later.

Here I came back to our room for a minute on our first full day at sea. I had already taken a bunch of shots around the ship after breakfast, and when I opened the door to our room, the first thing I saw was Michael out on the veranda finally getting to read the latest Harry Potter novel. He ran out and purchased it the very first day it hit the book stores. I'm not the huge "Potter" fan Michael is, so I can't remember just when that was, but I'm certain it was early in 07' and the cruise wasn't till October, which shows you how hectic his life usually is.

I was doubly glad to see he took his novel out on the balcony but left his "To Do" list on the table inside. No one needs a list like that on a vacation, not even a small one, and I made sure to include it in this shot to record a moment of putting play before work, on one of those times when it's absolutely the right thing to do.
A bunch of girls from my job go on a different Caribbean cruise most every year. I am eternally grateful for my good friend Michael, talking me into joining them on their Island hopping cruise in 2007'. Not only did this, the first cruise he and I ever went on, provide him with some very well deserved rest, but the trip reacquainted me with my favorite hobby of photography, after over a 15 year absence from it. Trying out my little Fujifine Pix camera for the first time (purchased just for this type of occasion with help by a gift certificate from Michael!) I ended up taking pictures EVERYWHERE I went, and it helped lead me to buying my 1st DSLR a few months later. Here I came back to our room for a minute on our first full day at sea. I had already taken a bunch of shots around the ship after breakfast, and when I opened the door to our room, the first thing I saw was Michael out on the veranda finally getting to read the latest Harry Potter novel. He ran out and purchased it the very first day it hit the book stores. I'm not the huge "Potter" fan Michael is, so I can't remember just when that was, but I'm certain it was early in 07' and the cruise wasn't till October, which shows you how hectic his life usually is. I was doubly glad to see he took his novel out on the balcony but left his "To Do" list on the table inside. No one needs a list like that on a vacation, not even a small one, and I made sure to include it in this shot to record a moment of putting play before work, on one of those times when it's absolutely the right thing to do.
A bunch of girls from my job go on a different Caribbean cruise most every year. I am eternally grateful for my good friend Michael, talking me into joining them on their Island hopping cruise in 2007'. Not only did this, the first cruise he and I ever went on, provide him with some very well deserved rest, but the trip reacquainted me with my favorite hobby of photography, after over a 15 year absence from it. Trying out my little Fujifine Pix camera for the first time (purchased just for this type of occasion with help by a gift certificate from Michael!) I ended up taking pictures EVERYWHERE I went, and it helped lead me to buying my 1st DSLR a few months later.

Here I came back to our room for a minute on our first full day at sea. I had already taken a bunch of shots around the ship after breakfast, and when I opened the door to our room, the first thing I saw was Michael out on the veranda finally getting to read the latest Harry Potter novel. He ran out and purchased it the very first day it hit the book stores. I'm not the huge "Potter" fan Michael is, so I can't remember just when that was, but I'm certain it was early in 07' and the cruise wasn't till October, which shows you how hectic his life usually is.

I was doubly glad to see he took his novel out on the balcony but left his "To Do" list on the table inside. No one needs a list like that on a vacation, not even a small one, and I made sure to include it in this shot to record a moment of putting play before work, on one of those times when it's absolutely the right thing to do.
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