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In their day jobs they really are photographers!
These gentlemen are both ship's photographers onboard the Zaandam. I don't remember getting the gentleman's name on the left but on the right is Ivan (pronounced Eevan), a really nice guy.
Earlier, Niccy and I were sitting on the back deck, waiting for our sail away from Puerto Vallarta when I saw these guys sitting at a table next to us. They were watching one of the guests taking several photos of that big blazing ball of orange we call the sun as it was slowly sinking in the West. Me being who I am spoke up and said "It's a shame he doesn't turn around, all the color is right behind him". Ivan said "I see it all the time" and that opened the door to a nice conversation about tourists, being photographers on the ship and photography in general. We talked a bit then they excused themselves and wandered over to the railing to get a nice city shot to send home to friends and family. I saw a bit of irony since they were using their phones to get the shot so I fired off a fast one and this is the result.
We ran into them at our next port and Ivan invited me to come down to his studio when I had a free moment to talk a bit more. Ivan is a specialty photographer, trained in the Black Label method which is low contrast black and white photography with almost a film noir quality to it. His sessions are different than the regular photographers, all are scheduled by the guest and done in his studio, not just out on deck or on the pier.
On our last day at sea I stopped by his studio and we talked for an hour or so between his appointments. He said he's been at it for 10+ years and truly does love his job. I have to say I was a bit envious, getting to travel to so many places and take so many shots sounds like a pretty good way to spend your day!
Good on ya Ivan, I wish you all the very best!
Niccy and I just got back from a transatlantic cruise so I've finally got some shots to post!
We got off the ship in Cadiz, a really pretty port city in Spain. We've been here before so instead of following the tourists we take off on a tangent to see what we can see that we haven't seen before. While most of the tourists were photographing the buildings and such I was busy photographing a protest!
My Spanish is poor at best so I'm not sure what they were protesting. Catalan Independence? Maybe the fact there were so many tourists invading their space? The price of paella? Don't know but they were not happy campers.
It wasn't a huge group and they seemed to be focused on the building in front of them. The Police were there and didn't seem to be too panicked so I wasn't worried about violence. Whatever it was I hope they achieved what they wanted to achieve. Definitely not what you expect to see when you're on a cruise!
Having fun wearing my All-in-one girdle. As you can see I enjoyed taking these photos: here I'm proudly demonstrating my lovely flat girly crotch
A Quickie All-in-one Moleskine Diary/Sketchbook in Leather Cover
The day I decided to use the Moleskine 18 months weekly diary from July I knew I would have problem pulling out what I need from my bag. It has the same size and look as the Moleskine sketch book I'm using. Knowing that I will be using both quite often in this coming half year starting from my trip to Tokyo next week, I did something drastic in 30 minutes.
First I ruined the back of these 2 notebooks by putting 4 snaps on them so that they can stick together yet removable if I want to. Note that the two notebooks are snapped together so that the top of one is aligned with the bottom of the other. There is a good enough space in between because of the height of the snaps, so it works well to put a pen holder there. I just punched and set two eyelets to hold the broad elastic band together, then a metal wire is passed through the two eyelets to make a ring which helps to keep the elastic band in place on the spines, again this is removable if I don't need a pen holder.
Assembling it is easy, just put the pen holder in between the back of these two notebooks, snap the notebooks together and there you go. At this stage leather freak like me couldn't stop but made a cover for this so that the metal ring of the pen holder is concealed and I have the look I want.
Finally, to distinguish which side is which notebook, I stamped on the leather cover "Time" for the diary side and "Note" for the sketchbook side. Whenever I feel like using the other side, I flip the notebook vertically. The original Moleskine elastic bands can be used to enclose the leather cover but I like a clean look so most of the time they are enclosing the pages only.
You are probably wondering why there are some flying pigs on one of the Moleskines, that's a gift sketchbook from Steve Light. What's that pen you asked? Pilot 1979 Murex fountain pen, also a gift from a good friend Kelly.
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Blaue Akelei:: (Aquilegia), Zierform, giftige Gartenpflanze, Giftpflanze
NATURE IN BLUE
"Blaue Blume - Blaue Akelei"
Die Blaue Blume ist ein zentrales Symbol der Romantik. Sie steht für Sehnsucht und Liebe und für das metaphysische Streben nach dem Unendlichen.
The Blue Flower (German: Blaue Blume) is a central symbol of Romanticism. It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable.
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USCGC Sea Otter (WPB-87362) is the 61st cutter in the United States Coast Guard's successful Marine Protector class.
Cutters like Sea Otter are assigned to perform search and rescue, intercept drug smugglers and people smugglers, provide a front line response to disasters, and perform routine constabulary duties.
Marine Protector cutters are lightly armed, with all but the four owned by the US Navy mounting a main armament of a pair of crew-served fifty caliber Browning machine guns, on either side of their foredecks.
Thank You Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Sea_Otter
I wish that I could have gotten a cleaner shot of her but we have to take what we can get sometimes! The lighthouse looking structure in the background is Tom Ham's Lighthouse, a nice seafood restaurant with outdoor/indoor seating. If you'd like to see their menus:
I didn't know this but it seems the lighthouse is actually a Coast Guard Lighthouse!
changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane
RIP Jimmy Buffet, December 25, 1946 – September 1, 2023
As the ship started to pull away from Curacao and the libations started to flow there was a definite "climate change" that took place. Everybody started to loosen up and let go of their worries, exactly what you're supposed to do when you go on a cruise. Niccy and I were hopeful that this attitude would remain for the rest of the trip, I guess we had a Wait and See sort of mindset.
Niccy and I just got back from a 2 week cruise down in the Caribbean, a trip that was supposed to be in the UK but thanks to the whole covid fiasco that was not meant to be. We were on the P&O Britannia and as we quickly found out we were the only Americans aboard! We had a good time, got to see some new ports and enjoyed the weather.
To make sure you're headed in the right direction!
The Barbados 1 making sure that the BBC Singapore wasn't going to have any issues while leaving the port. For those who are curious the BBC Singapore made it out without the kiss and headed off into the briny deep!
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. It's a well known issue and for some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
What can I say, I like taking pictures of people taking pictures!
One of the stops we made on this cruise was Bonaire, which is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC islands, 80 km (50 miles) off the coast of Venezuela, and are outside of the "Hurricane Alley. The islands have an arid climate that attracts visitors seeking warm, sunny weather all year round. Bonaire is a popular snorkeling and scuba diving destination because of its multiple shore diving sites and easy access to the island's fringing reefs.
First time visit for us and since we don't snorkel or scuba we decided to take an island tour. One of the highlights of the tour is driving around Goto Lake which is a saltwater lagoon in the north of the island and is known as a flamingo meeting place. Bonaire is one of the few places in the world where pink flamingos nest and these beautiful birds are easy to observe from the road that passes high above the lake.
Well, it just so happened that there were a couple of flamingo families nesting when we passed by and the bus driver decided to stop for people to get a picture.
Now I've seen flamingos before and there are probably a million and two pictures of flamingos on Flicker but it's not every day you get to see a bunch of people with cellphones trying to get a shot of some flamingos through a dirty bus window so I decided to make them my subject. Now, every time I look at this shot I'll remember Bonaire and the bus stop at Goto Lake. If I want to see flamingos I'll just search them on Flickr!
More bus adventures in Puerto Vallarta!
Once we'd finished doing the tourist thing down on the Malecón we decided to head back to the ship. We figured since we got here on the bus we assumed we'd get back by the bus. Well, you know what they say about assuming...
We saw this bus had Walmart listed as a stop so we paid our 10 pesos and settled in for the ride. The Walmart Super Center and Sam's Club are right across the street from the cruise terminal so we had a good landmark to go off of.
The driver takes off, goes around the corner, up the street for about a half mile then stops at a bus stop. Everyone gets off the bus but us and the driver is looking at us like Hey, you need to get off the bus. I asked him in Spanish ¿Vas a walmart? (Do you go to Walmart) and he says (in Spanish) "No, No, esta es la última parada de autobús.",(No, this is the last bus stop). Since my Spanish is limited and he wasn't looking too friendly we got off the bus.
We waited at the stop for another bus and several finally showed up. We went to get on one when we realized we didn't have any more pesos, only US dollars and they don't take US dollars on the bus. OK, now what do we do?
There were taxis all around but we weren't ready to pay the price for one so we came up with a different solution. We wandered a bit till we found a convenience store and bought a large bottled water, the cheapest thing we could think of. The store accepted greenbacks and as is usual gave us our change back in Pesos! We went back to the bus stop, found a bus that was going to Walmart and made our way back to the safety of the ship.
It's the little side trips like this that make memories for us.