I recently went on a cruise with some friends to get away from the cold weather, create some unique art prints, and recharge my creative spirits. One of the things I found fun was to create as many art images as I could with just my small point-and-shoot camera on manual. Now that I’m home, I thought I’d post some of my favorite images.
This first image is a multi-image panorama created at the Bahama port at sunrise.
Looking down off my room’s balcony into the water of the Bahamas.
These images were created in the St. Thomas area.
I really like photographing people and faces, even if they are strangers I meet when I travel. This man had such an interesting look to me. I went over and talked with him for a bit while on the island of St. John. He plays in a reggae band. I made sure to position myself with the blue water behind him before creating this image of him. I loved the look in his eye and the stark contrast of colors framed with the deep blue water.
Then we stopped in Puerto Rico. There is an old fort there with a lighthouse, and most of my images from this island were created there.
The last stop was Grand Turks. It had one of the prettiest beaches. It was a very small island, only 1 mile wide and 7 miles long. The port is at one end, and I paid a local guy to drive me to the other end to photograph a lighthouse. I love searching out and photographing lighthouses when out of town. 
The lighthouse was not the typical lighthouse, set on a rocky ledge. It was set back quite a ways and surrounded by odd buildings, trees and wild donkeys. With the time of day also not being ideal, I decided to photograph this lighthouse in high-contrast black and white. I also shot some with a shift-lens to blur out areas I didn’t like in the image.
Here is a pirate statue that guards the door of a building right next to the lighthouse.
By then it was time to get back on ship. This is a look towards our boat on the right, from the Grand Turk docks. The sun was setting so I hurried on board to photograph the sunset from the boat.
Once on board, I hustled up to the top deck to finish photographing the sunset.
And one last image of this man undocking our ship, shot through the guard rail, creating a cool ‘Z’ shape in white.
It was a great and relaxing trip, but it is good to be home. Let me know what some of your favorite images are. I’m curious what others like. I will add some to my art site soon, once I narrow them down a bit.
Until next time, America.
While I was driving, the time of day was perfect, the sun was setting and these meadows and aspens really glowed with the low angled light. Plus it was fire season, so there was a lot of smoke in the air which added to the dramatic look of the setting sun.
This black and white was particularly fun and probably one of my favorites from the day. I’d really like to make this up large and have it in my home.
And this last image shows a real teepee off in the distance, used by a rancher. The warm smokey air in this image really makes it for me.
It’s always fun to get away and create new images just for the sake of being creative, and it was fun being with photographer friends from Adobe. They really had a fun night planned and I am grateful I could be apart of it.
