Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Indian Shores Florida - What's a Beach Without a Bucket?

Our trip to Indian Shores was a vacation. It wasn't a photo expedition, a photo surfari, or a photo trek. With that in mind and still wanting to make sure I did find some photo ops, I did a little research about the area and managed to get up early some mornings and venture out on my own. I don't know about you, but when I am out looking for scenes and shooting images, nobody wants to be around. I take too long. I take too many shots. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Vacations are always too short. You try and cram as much in as you can in a certain number of days and many times you go home exhausted. Exhausted from a trip that took you away from work and the routine of your daily life. A trip you took with the intent of relaxing and decompressing in order to get back to the real world feeling fresh and ready to take things head on. I know most, if not all, have felt this way at one time or another. It's funny. We joke about it. We accept it. And we do it again the next year.

We did lots of things on vacation, many of which I didn't document with a camera. I captured enough to personally remind us of the great time we spent in and around Indian Shores. And, I believe I managed to get a few keepers to satisfy my photography addiction.


*By the way, for those of you that believe I spelled "safari" wrong, it's a play on words, haha.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Aruba - One Happy Island


We just got back from a trip to Aruba. We have been there several times before and keep going back for many reasons. I will share some of those reasons over the next few entries. Today's blog image is of a sailboat making its way across the pastel-colored water during a sunrise. I've rendered an impressionistic view of what is a daily occurrence along the west coast waters of Aruba. I can't get enough of the beautiful water and the scenes that are painted daily right before your eyes.