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(12489, 1, '2025-01-31 01:36:46', '2025-01-31 01:36:46', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I haven\'t blogged since last Fall! I meant to, and even started an article, but realized that not enough was happening in the area of photography to justify it. Instead, I had been working on a stained glass piece that now hangs in my kitchen window. (The first shot is the panel at night; the second is the panel with daylight behind.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12250,\"width\":\"444px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-at-night-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12250\" style=\"width:444px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12253,\"width\":\"458px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-in-daylight-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12253\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I also taught stained glass to a woman from our church, who completed her project and gave it to her brother for Christmas. It\'s a joy to create things (digital images, or glass), and to teach.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the middle of January my wife and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grand Turk, and Nassau, Bahamas. The weather was warm and the accommodations were great (in contrast to the weather in Pittsburgh, which was down around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). I got some great shots of the ship with my different lenses. I tried to shoot when there was no one in sight -- a bit of a challenge on the bright, warm days in the popular venues like the Sun Deck. What struck me were the strong compositional elements, really architectural elements, that stood out when I looked in the right places. 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(The first shot is the panel at night; the second is the panel with daylight behind.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12250,\"width\":\"444px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-at-night-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12250\" style=\"width:444px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12253,\"width\":\"458px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-in-daylight-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12253\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I also taught stained glass to a woman from our church, who completed her project and gave it to her brother for Christmas. It\'s a joy to create things (digital images, or glass), and to teach.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the middle of January my wife and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grand Turk, and Nassau, Bahamas. The weather was warm and the accommodations were great (in contrast to the weather in Pittsburgh, which was down around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). I got some great shots of the ship with my different lenses. I tried to shoot when there was no one in sight -- a bit of a challenge on the bright, warm days in the popular venues like the Sun Deck. What struck me were the strong compositional elements, really architectural elements, that stood out when I looked in the right places. Curves and straight lines drew the eye along in a pleasing way.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12272,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2068-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12272\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12266,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2101-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12266\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12265,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img 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src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2207-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12260\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12286,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2517-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12286\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Evening or early morning also gave me an opportunity to capture the dwindling or increasing light on the Sun Deck (Deck 11, where our stateroom was located).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12442,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img 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(12491, 1, '2025-01-31 01:49:52', '2025-01-31 01:49:52', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I haven\'t blogged since last Fall! I meant to, and even started an article, but realized that not enough was happening in the area of photography to justify it. Instead, I had been working on a stained glass piece that now hangs in my kitchen window. (The first shot is the panel at night; the second is the panel with daylight behind.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12250,\"width\":\"444px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-at-night-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12250\" style=\"width:444px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12253,\"width\":\"458px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-in-daylight-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12253\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I also taught stained glass to a woman from our church, who completed her project and gave it to her brother for Christmas. It\'s a joy to create things (digital images, or glass), and to teach.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the middle of January my wife and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grand Turk, and Nassau, Bahamas. The weather was warm and the accommodations were great (in contrast to the weather in Pittsburgh, which was down around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). I got some great shots of the ship with my different lenses. I tried to shoot when there was no one in sight -- a bit of a challenge on the bright, warm days in the popular venues like the Sun Deck. What struck me were the strong compositional elements, really architectural elements, that stood out when I looked in the right places. Curves and straight lines drew the eye along in a pleasing way. To see the images properly, click on them and they will open in their proper format.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12272,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2068-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12272\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12266,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2101-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12266\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12265,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2065-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12265\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12267,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2103-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12267\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12268,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2104-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12268\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12269,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2108-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12269\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12262,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2052-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12262\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12257,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2512-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12257\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12270,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2110-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12270\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sometimes the contrast of the ship\'s shapes with the sky, sea, or clouds caught my eye.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12271,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2059-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12271\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12261,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2046-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12261\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12259,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2524-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12259\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12258,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2521-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12258\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12260,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2207-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12260\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12286,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2517-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12286\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Evening or early morning also gave me an opportunity to capture the dwindling or increasing light on the Sun Deck (Deck 11, where our stateroom was located).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12442,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2226-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12442\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12429,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2205-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12429\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12438,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2221-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12438\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That\'s it for now. In another post, I will show some of the other images from our cruise, in particular shots from our excursions on shore, some flowers, some urban and beach images, and some art images of crowds using a distorting lens, the Lensbaby Spark.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Getting Caught Up with Travel Images -- the Ship', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12249-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 01:49:52', '2025-01-31 01:49:52', '', 12249, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12491', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12493, 1, '2025-01-31 02:16:58', '2025-01-31 02:16:58', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I haven\'t blogged since last Fall! I meant to, and even started an article, but realized that not enough was happening in the area of photography to justify it. Instead, I had been working on a stained glass piece that now hangs in my kitchen window. (The first shot is the panel at night; the second is the panel with daylight behind.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12250,\"width\":\"444px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-at-night-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12250\" style=\"width:444px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12253,\"width\":\"458px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-in-daylight-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12253\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I also taught stained glass to a woman from our church, who completed her project and gave it to her brother for Christmas. It\'s a joy to create things (digital images, or glass), and to teach.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the middle of January my wife and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grand Turk, and Nassau, Bahamas. The weather was warm and the accommodations were great (in contrast to the weather in Pittsburgh, which was down around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). I got some great shots of the ship with my different lenses. I tried to shoot when there was no one in sight -- a bit of a challenge on the bright, warm days in the popular venues like the Sun Deck. What struck me were the strong compositional elements, really architectural elements, that stood out when I looked in the right places. Curves and straight lines drew the eye along in a pleasing way. To see the images properly, click on them and they will open in their proper format.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12272,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2068-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12272\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12266,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2101-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12266\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12265,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2065-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12265\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12267,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2103-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12267\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12268,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2104-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12268\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12269,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2108-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12269\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12262,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2052-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12262\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12257,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2512-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12257\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12270,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2110-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12270\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sometimes the contrast of the ship\'s shapes with the sky, sea, or clouds caught my eye.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12271,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2059-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12271\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12261,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2046-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12261\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12259,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2524-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12259\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12258,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2521-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12258\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12260,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2207-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12260\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12286,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2517-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12286\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Evening or early morning also gave me an opportunity to capture the dwindling or increasing light on the Sun Deck (Deck 11, where our stateroom was located).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12442,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2226-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12442\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12429,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2205-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12429\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12438,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2221-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12438\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That\'s it for now. In another post, I will show some of the other images from our cruise, in particular shots from our excursions on shore, some flowers, some urban and beach images, and some art images of crowds using a distorting lens, the Lensbaby Spark.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Photography Adventures: Caribbean Cruise Ship Images', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12249-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 02:16:58', '2025-01-31 02:16:58', '', 12249, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12493', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12495, 1, '2025-02-01 00:13:03', '2025-02-01 00:13:03', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. Outside the immediate port area, which is like a shopping mall in the U.S., there are relatively poor people, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours. (In the photo below you see one fellow offering such a guided tour of Queen Victoria\'s Staircase, in Nassau, to my wife Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship, Holland America\'s Nieuwstatendam, is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew. We traveled between January 18 and 25, 2025.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers, you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or commercial failure. 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And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The big cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. 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(12523, 1, '2025-01-31 17:55:44', '2025-01-31 17:55:44', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. There are relatively poor people, too, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"medium\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The big cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. Not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. 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We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. 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Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The big cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. Not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. 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Not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. 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(12533, 1, '2025-01-31 22:06:56', '2025-01-31 22:06:56', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. There are relatively poor people, too, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. Not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. 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(12534, 1, '2025-01-31 22:08:44', '2025-01-31 22:08:44', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. There are relatively poor people, too, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. 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And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are crowded. Our guide on excursion said that two thousand people passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming.  So write me if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 22:14:20', '2025-01-31 22:14:20', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12535', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12536, 1, '2025-01-31 22:15:42', '2025-01-31 22:15:42', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. There are relatively poor people, too, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are crowded. Our guide on excursion said that two thousand people passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming if I just pile them on here.  So write me if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 22:15:42', '2025-01-31 22:15:42', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12536', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship, the Holland America Nieuwstatendam, is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are crowded. Our guide on excursion said that two thousand people passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming if I just pile them on here.  So write me if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, most of them shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 22:18:24', '2025-01-31 22:18:24', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12537', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12538, 1, '2025-01-31 22:29:52', '2025-01-31 22:29:52', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. Outside the immediate port area, which is like a shopping mall, there are relatively poor people, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours. (In the photo below you see one fellow offering such a guided tour of Queen Victoria\'s Staircase, in Nassau, to my wife Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship, the Holland America Nieuwstatendam, is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are crowded. Our guide on excursion said that two thousand people passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming if I just pile them on here.  So write me if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, most of them shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 22:29:52', '2025-01-31 22:29:52', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12538', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(12539, 1, '2025-01-31 22:32:00', '2025-01-31 22:32:00', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. Outside the immediate port area, which is like a shopping mall, there are relatively poor people, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours. (In the photo below you see one fellow offering such a guided tour of Queen Victoria\'s Staircase, in Nassau, to my wife Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship, Holland America\'s Nieuwstatendam, is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew. We traveled between January 18 and 25, 2025.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or financial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are crowded. Our guide on excursion said that two thousand people passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming if I just pile them on here.  So write me if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, most of them shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 22:32:00', '2025-01-31 22:32:00', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12539', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12540, 1, '2025-01-31 22:34:08', '2025-01-31 22:34:08', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. Outside the immediate port area, which is like a shopping mall, there are relatively poor people, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours. (In the photo below you see one fellow offering such a guided tour of Queen Victoria\'s Staircase, in Nassau, to my wife Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship, Holland America\'s Nieuwstatendam, is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew. We traveled between January 18 and 25, 2025.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers, you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or commercial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are very crowded. Our guide on one excursion said that <em>two thousand people </em>passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming if I just pile them on here. So write me (christopherhumphreyphotography@mail.com) if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, most of them shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-01-31 22:34:08', '2025-01-31 22:34:08', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12540', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12541, 1, '2025-02-01 00:09:52', '2025-02-01 00:09:52', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. Outside the immediate port area, which is like a shopping mall in the U.S., there are relatively poor people, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours. (In the photo below you see one fellow offering such a guided tour of Queen Victoria\'s Staircase, in Nassau, to my wife Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship, Holland America\'s Nieuwstatendam, is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew. We traveled between January 18 and 25, 2025.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers, you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or commercial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are very crowded. Our guide on one excursion said that <em>two thousand people </em>passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming if I just pile them on here. So write me (christopherhumphreyphotography@mail.com) if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, most of them shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-02-01 00:09:52', '2025-02-01 00:09:52', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12541', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12542, 1, '2025-02-01 00:13:03', '2025-02-01 00:13:03', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people on the islands of the Caribbean are rich and poor. Many of the people that we saw in Nassau, in the Bahamas, seemed to be well-to-do. Right off the boat we were close to police stations, to courts (including the Supreme Court), to judicial offices and judges\' parking spaces. There is an air of professionalism and sobriety here. Outside the immediate port area, which is like a shopping mall in the U.S., there are relatively poor people, just trying to sell stuff -- prepared food, fruit, and so forth. And lots of guys offering horse-and-buggy rides or taxi rides to various locations, or individualized tours. (In the photo below you see one fellow offering such a guided tour of Queen Victoria\'s Staircase, in Nassau, to my wife Edith.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":3,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}},\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-3 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12314,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2638-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12314\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12505,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2669-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12505\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12326,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2687-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12326\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12317,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2644-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12323,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12323\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In one location (Amber Cove, Dominican Republic) we visited a cultural center which showed us how the delicious Dominican coffee and rum were made traditionally -- by hand. We sampled both, and brought ground coffee back to the States. It is clear that the people of the islands depend on tourism to survive, and on the big cash crops. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"layout\":{\"type\":\"default\"}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12518,\"width\":\"247px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chris-grinding-coffee-beans-in-the-Dominican-Republic-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\" style=\"width:247px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coffee-grinding by hand (which I tried out while dancing with others around a mortar, and the islanders sang rhythmically) is an attempt to preserve the old ways (largely for the tourists). Meanwhile, big corporations are using electricity to do the same job much more economically. (Yes, that\'s me on the left, or above, in the flowered shirt, taken from a video recorded by Edith.)<br><br>The ships are <em>big. </em>That\'s me to the right (or below); my ship, Holland America\'s Nieuwstatendam, is the smaller one on the right. It had about two thousand passengers, and 975 crew. We traveled between January 18 and 25, 2025.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12527,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"has-lightbox\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-lightbox\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3224-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12527\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cruise ships dominate these islands physically as well as financially. In some places, not far from the beaches or piers, you find failed attempts to capture tourist dollars, like shuttered shops, seaside developments abandoned, and stone walls and rusted fences collapsed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":4,\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12485,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2502-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12485\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12511,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12516,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2506-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12516\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12484,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2500-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12484\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12514,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2496-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12483,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2499-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast, the Bahamas island <em>owned </em>by the Holland America cruise ship line, Half Moon Cay, is very well run, and there is no sign of decay or commercial failure. In fact, the Carnival line (which has bought Holland America) is building its own dock on the island, and there is other construction going on as well. This is effectively a \"company town,\" with employees coming for short stays from all over the place to keep the machine running as smoothly on land as it does on the seas. The downside of success for the customers of the cruise lines is that the attractions in some cases are very crowded. Our guide on one excursion said that <em>two thousand people </em>passed through a tropical pool on the day that we visited it; needless to say, there wasn\'t a lot of space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have dozens of other good images, but I know that you\'re going to find them overwhelming if I just pile them on here. So write me (<a href=\"mailto:christopherhumphreyphotography@mail.com\">christopherhumphreyphotography@mail.com</a>) if you want to see more, and I\'ll put up a gallery through which you can wade :-).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The next blog post will have photos of clouds and flowers, and some of people on the beach or on the quay, most of them shot with my Lensbaby lenses (Spark and Velvet 56). This is the \"artsy\" stuff that I love.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'On land in the Caribbean', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12495-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-02-01 00:13:03', '2025-02-01 00:13:03', '', 12495, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12542', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12543, 1, '2025-02-01 20:18:23', '2025-02-01 20:18:23', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I haven\'t blogged since last Fall! I meant to, and even started an article, but realized that not enough was happening in the area of photography to justify it. Instead, I had been working on a stained glass piece that now hangs in my kitchen window. (The first shot is the panel at night; the second is the panel with daylight behind.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12250,\"width\":\"444px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-at-night-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12250\" style=\"width:444px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12253,\"width\":\"458px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Books-and-bananas-in-bowl-finished-looking-out-in-daylight-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12253\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I also taught stained glass to a woman from our church, who completed her project and gave it to her brother for Christmas. It\'s a joy to create things (digital images, or glass), and to teach.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the middle of January my wife and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grand Turk, and Nassau, Bahamas. The weather was warm and the accommodations were great (in contrast to the weather in Pittsburgh, which was down around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). I got some great shots of the ship with my different lenses. I tried to shoot when there was no one in sight -- a bit of a challenge on the bright, warm days in the popular venues like the Sun Deck. What struck me were the strong compositional elements, really architectural elements, that stood out when I looked in the right places. Curves and straight lines drew the eye along in a pleasing way. To see the images properly, click on them and they will open in their proper format.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12272,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2068-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12272\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12266,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2101-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12266\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12265,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2065-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12265\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12267,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2103-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12267\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12268,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2104-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12268\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12269,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2108-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12269\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12262,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2052-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12262\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12257,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2512-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12257\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12270,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2110-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12270\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sometimes the contrast of the ship\'s shapes with the sky, sea, or clouds caught my eye.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12271,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2059-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12271\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12261,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2046-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12261\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12259,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2524-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12259\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12258,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2521-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12258\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12260,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2207-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12260\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12286,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2517-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12286\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Evening or early morning also gave me an opportunity to capture the dwindling or increasing light on the Sun Deck (Deck 11, where our stateroom was located).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12442,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2226-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12442\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12429,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2205-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12429\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12438,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2221-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12438\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That\'s it for now. In other posts, I will show some of the other images from our cruise, in particular shots from our excursions on shore, some flowers, some urban and beach images, and some art images of crowds using a distorting lens, the Lensbaby Spark.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Photography Adventures: Caribbean Cruise Ship Images', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12249-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-02-01 20:18:23', '2025-02-01 20:18:23', '', 12249, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12543', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(12544, 1, '2025-02-02 21:39:05', '2025-02-02 21:39:05', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As I have said many times, we are drowning in images, and many of them are quite good. (Lots are terrible, but they\'re not meant to be works of art; the point-and-shoot, camera-phone photo is just for catching the moment, usually with people you know.) I have really good lenses for sharpness. (The Canon RF 24-70mm is top-notch for a range of purposes; the EF 70-200mm is a great long zoom; the 50mm f1.2 and the 85mm are great portrait lenses.) So if a client needs sharp, well-exposed images, with good lighting and imaginative framing and composition, I can do all that.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What turns my crank, I have to admit, are creative images, captured at the boundaries: low light, low contrast (low-key); high contrast black and white, with lots of structure; images taken with a slower shutter speed, and the movement of either the subject or the camera, creating interesting blur; selective-focus images, in which one part of the image is relatively sharp and higher contrast, and the rest is slightly blurred; or images that have a kind of diffusion over them, as though there is light mist in the air. I like playing with the post-processing, too, darkening, lightening, increasing the saturation of color selectively, and so on.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of these creative techniques work especially well with three subjects: clouds, flowers, and crowds of people. Here are some examples of selective focus (using the Lensbaby Spark lens, the Composer Pro II, with the Edge 80 and the Sweet 22 optics) from my January 2025 Caribbean cruise photos. Notice the subtle elements on the horizon in the top images: do you see the city skyline? In some of the images the clouds are blurred, and the sea, the catamaran, or the horizon is the main subject; in others, it is the clouds that are the subject and the sea is a mottled blur of color.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12417,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1754-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12417\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12421,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1765-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12421\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12420,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1761-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12419,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1756-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12423,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1767-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12423\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12426,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1782-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12297,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2540-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12297\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12294,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2535-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12294\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12303,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12304,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2573-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12304\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flowers and Vegetation</h2>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was carrying a 27-pound bag of photo gear on my back for some of our excursions. I didn\'t feel like walking everywhere to take a shot here or there. In places like Grand Turk, there wasn\'t much to see outside the beach area, and Holland America\'s Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was a very controlled environment: there was a beach, an outdoor cafeteria area, and places you could go to ride horses or look at stingrays, neither of which interested me. So in some locations I found flowers, and settled in to photograph them. I shot them from different angles and under different light (as the sun was sometimes hidden by clouds), using a range of lenses and apertures. Sometimes I was looking for sharpness in one part, and blur and diffusion (like a mist) in others. With these images, the key things are the composition, especially the balance of light and dark, and the <em>texture </em>of the bright, diffused parts. I also shot palm trees, palm fronds, berries in a tree. For some images, I deliberately did not focus the Spark lens on anything, but let its star-shaped insert create abstract photo designs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12467,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2433-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12467\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12465,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2430-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12465\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image 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src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1826-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12337\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12336,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1824-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12336\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crowds and Individuals in Selective Focus</h2>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have really come to love the Spark lens from Lensbaby. It is a really simple lens. You set the shutter speed. The aperture (the size of the hole the light goes through) is constant, so you can\'t change it. You bend the flexible front of the lens around until whatever you want to be in focus is sharp. Then you press the shutter button. Unlike my regular lenses (like the RF 24-70mm), I never know exactly what I\'m going to get, and that\'s fun. There are lots of interesting (and uninteresting) failures. But every once in a while, you get a great image. (I consider one or two of the images of the catamaran in front of the city on the faint horizon, at the top, to be a great image.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I found in an earlier cruise that I could get some painterly images of crowds on the quays in front of the cruise ships; the upper parts of the ships could be in focus, and the crowds below treated like smears or dabs of color. Here\'s a sample from our January cruise.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12510,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2325-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12510\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12469,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2438-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12469\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12468,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2435-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12468\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12464,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2422-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12464\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12463,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2420-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12463\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12460,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2415-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12460\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12455,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2379-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12455\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12452,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2371-Edit-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12452\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12450,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2367-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12450\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If there is any image on my site that you would like as a print (any size), let me know and I will be happy to quote you a very reasonable price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Till next time . . . 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(12545, 1, '2025-02-01 20:53:32', '2025-02-01 20:53:32', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As I have said many times, we are drowning in images, and many of them are quite good. (Lots are terrible, but they\'re not meant to be works of art; the point-and-shoot, camera-phone photo is just for catching the moment, usually with people you know.) I have really good lenses for sharpness. (The Canon RF 24-70mm is top-notch for a range of purposes; the EF 70-200mm is a great long zoom; the 50mm f1.2 and the 85mm are great portrait lenses.) So if a client needs sharp, well-exposed images, with good lighting and imaginative framing and composition, I can do all that.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What turns my crank, I have to admit, are images at the boundaries: low light, low contrast (low-key); high contrast black and white, with lots of structure;   images taken with a slower shutter speed, and the movement of either the subject or the camera, creating interesting blur; selective-focus images, in which one part of the image is relatively sharp and higher contrast, and the rest is slightly blurred; or images that have a kind of diffusion over them, as though there is mist in the air. I like playing with the post-processing, too, darkening, lightening, increasing the saturation of color selectively, and so on.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of these techniques work well with three subjects: clouds, flowers, and crowds of people. Here are some examples of selective focus (using the Lensbaby Spark lens) from my January 2025 Caribbean cruise photos. Notice the subtle elements on the horizon in the top images. In some of the images the clouds are blurred, and the sea and horizon are the main subject; in others, it is the clouds that are the subject and the sea is a blur of color.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12417,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1754-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12417\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12421,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1765-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12421\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12420,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1761-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12419,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1756-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12423,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1767-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12423\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12426,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1782-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12297,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2540-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12297\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12294,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2535-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12294\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12303,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12304,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2573-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12304\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->', 'Clouds, flowers, crowds', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12544-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-02-01 20:53:32', '2025-02-01 20:53:32', '', 12544, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12545', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(12546, 1, '2025-02-01 20:55:51', '2025-02-01 20:55:51', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As I have said many times, we are drowning in images, and many of them are quite good. (Lots are terrible, but they\'re not meant to be works of art; the point-and-shoot, camera-phone photo is just for catching the moment, usually with people you know.) I have really good lenses for sharpness. (The Canon RF 24-70mm is top-notch for a range of purposes; the EF 70-200mm is a great long zoom; the 50mm f1.2 and the 85mm are great portrait lenses.) So if a client needs sharp, well-exposed images, with good lighting and imaginative framing and composition, I can do all that.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What turns my crank, I have to admit, are images at the boundaries: low light, low contrast (low-key); high contrast black and white, with lots of structure;   images taken with a slower shutter speed, and the movement of either the subject or the camera, creating interesting blur; selective-focus images, in which one part of the image is relatively sharp and higher contrast, and the rest is slightly blurred; or images that have a kind of diffusion over them, as though there is mist in the air. I like playing with the post-processing, too, darkening, lightening, increasing the saturation of color selectively, and so on.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of these techniques work well with three subjects: clouds, flowers, and crowds of people. Here are some examples of selective focus (using the Lensbaby Spark lens) from my January 2025 Caribbean cruise photos. Notice the subtle elements on the horizon in the top images. In some of the images the clouds are blurred, and the sea, the catamaran, or horizon is the main subject; in others, it is the clouds that are the subject and the sea is a blur of color.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12417,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1754-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12417\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12421,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1765-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12421\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12420,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1761-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12419,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1756-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12423,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1767-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12423\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12426,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1782-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12297,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2540-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12297\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12294,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2535-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12294\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12303,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12304,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2573-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12304\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->', 'Clouds, flowers, crowds', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '12544-revision-v1', '', '', '2025-02-01 20:55:51', '2025-02-01 20:55:51', '', 12544, 'https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/?p=12546', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(12547, 1, '2025-02-01 21:08:48', '2025-02-01 21:08:48', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As I have said many times, we are drowning in images, and many of them are quite good. (Lots are terrible, but they\'re not meant to be works of art; the point-and-shoot, camera-phone photo is just for catching the moment, usually with people you know.) I have really good lenses for sharpness. (The Canon RF 24-70mm is top-notch for a range of purposes; the EF 70-200mm is a great long zoom; the 50mm f1.2 and the 85mm are great portrait lenses.) So if a client needs sharp, well-exposed images, with good lighting and imaginative framing and composition, I can do all that.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What turns my crank, I have to admit, are creative images, captured at the boundaries: low light, low contrast (low-key); high contrast black and white, with lots of structure; images taken with a slower shutter speed, and the movement of either the subject or the camera, creating interesting blur; selective-focus images, in which one part of the image is relatively sharp and higher contrast, and the rest is slightly blurred; or images that have a kind of diffusion over them, as though there is mist in the air. I like playing with the post-processing, too, darkening, lightening, increasing the saturation of color selectively, and so on.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of these creative techniques work especially well with three subjects: clouds, flowers, and crowds of people. Here are some examples of selective focus (using the Lensbaby Spark lens) from my January 2025 Caribbean cruise photos. Notice the subtle elements on the horizon in the top images. In some of the images the clouds are blurred, and the sea, the catamaran, or the horizon is the main subject; in others, it is the clouds that are the subject and the sea is a mottled blur of color.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12417,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1754-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12417\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12421,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1765-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12421\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12420,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1761-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12419,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1756-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12423,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1767-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12423\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12426,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1782-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12297,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2540-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12297\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12294,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2535-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12294\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12303,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12304,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2573-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12304\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flowers and Vegetation</h2>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was carrying a 27-pound bag of photo gear on my back for some of our excursions. I didn\'t feel like walking everywhere to take a shot here or there. In places like Grand Turk, there wasn\'t much to see outside the beach area, and Holland America\'s Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was a very controlled environment: there was a beach, an outdoor cafeteria area, and places you could go to ride horses or look at stingrays, neither of which interested me. So in some locations I found flowers, and photographed them using a range of lenses. Again, I was looking for sharpness in one part, and blur and diffusion (like a mist) in others. With these images, the composition is just about everything, especially lightness and darkness. Usually you want the subject to the light, and the less important elements to be dark, but not always. Ansel Adams, the famous landscape photographer, observed that \"there are no rules for good photography; there are just good photographs.\" So sometimes you make the most interesting part of an image (the eyes in a portrait, for example, dark or obscured. The same is true with flowers.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12467,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2433-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12467\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12466,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2432-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12466\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12465,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img 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(12548, 1, '2025-02-01 21:16:56', '2025-02-01 21:16:56', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As I have said many times, we are drowning in images, and many of them are quite good. (Lots are terrible, but they\'re not meant to be works of art; the point-and-shoot, camera-phone photo is just for catching the moment, usually with people you know.) I have really good lenses for sharpness. (The Canon RF 24-70mm is top-notch for a range of purposes; the EF 70-200mm is a great long zoom; the 50mm f1.2 and the 85mm are great portrait lenses.) So if a client needs sharp, well-exposed images, with good lighting and imaginative framing and composition, I can do all that.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What turns my crank, I have to admit, are creative images, captured at the boundaries: low light, low contrast (low-key); high contrast black and white, with lots of structure; images taken with a slower shutter speed, and the movement of either the subject or the camera, creating interesting blur; selective-focus images, in which one part of the image is relatively sharp and higher contrast, and the rest is slightly blurred; or images that have a kind of diffusion over them, as though there is mist in the air. I like playing with the post-processing, too, darkening, lightening, increasing the saturation of color selectively, and so on.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of these creative techniques work especially well with three subjects: clouds, flowers, and crowds of people. Here are some examples of selective focus (using the Lensbaby Spark lens) from my January 2025 Caribbean cruise photos. Notice the subtle elements on the horizon in the top images. In some of the images the clouds are blurred, and the sea, the catamaran, or the horizon is the main subject; in others, it is the clouds that are the subject and the sea is a mottled blur of color.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12417,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1754-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12417\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12421,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1765-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12421\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12420,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1761-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12419,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1756-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12423,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1767-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12423\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12426,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1782-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12297,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2540-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12297\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12294,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2535-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12294\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12303,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12304,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2573-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12304\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flowers and Vegetation</h2>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was carrying a 27-pound bag of photo gear on my back for some of our excursions. I didn\'t feel like walking everywhere to take a shot here or there. In places like Grand Turk, there wasn\'t much to see outside the beach area, and Holland America\'s Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was a very controlled environment: there was a beach, an outdoor cafeteria area, and places you could go to ride horses or look at stingrays, neither of which interested me. So in some locations I found flowers, and settled in to photograph them. I shot them from different angles and under different light (as the sun was sometimes hidden by clouds), using a range of lenses. Again, I was looking for sharpness in one part, and blur and diffusion (like a mist) in others. With these images, the composition is just about everything, especially light and dark. 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(12549, 1, '2025-02-01 21:27:25', '2025-02-01 21:27:25', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As I have said many times, we are drowning in images, and many of them are quite good. (Lots are terrible, but they\'re not meant to be works of art; the point-and-shoot, camera-phone photo is just for catching the moment, usually with people you know.) I have really good lenses for sharpness. (The Canon RF 24-70mm is top-notch for a range of purposes; the EF 70-200mm is a great long zoom; the 50mm f1.2 and the 85mm are great portrait lenses.) So if a client needs sharp, well-exposed images, with good lighting and imaginative framing and composition, I can do all that.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What turns my crank, I have to admit, are creative images, captured at the boundaries: low light, low contrast (low-key); high contrast black and white, with lots of structure; images taken with a slower shutter speed, and the movement of either the subject or the camera, creating interesting blur; selective-focus images, in which one part of the image is relatively sharp and higher contrast, and the rest is slightly blurred; or images that have a kind of diffusion over them, as though there is mist in the air. I like playing with the post-processing, too, darkening, lightening, increasing the saturation of color selectively, and so on.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of these creative techniques work especially well with three subjects: clouds, flowers, and crowds of people. Here are some examples of selective focus (using the Lensbaby Spark lens) from my January 2025 Caribbean cruise photos. Notice the subtle elements on the horizon in the top images. In some of the images the clouds are blurred, and the sea, the catamaran, or the horizon is the main subject; in others, it is the clouds that are the subject and the sea is a mottled blur of color.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12417,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1754-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12417\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12421,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1765-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12421\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12420,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1761-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12419,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1756-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12423,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1767-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12423\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12426,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1782-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12297,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2540-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12297\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12294,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2535-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12294\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12303,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12304,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2573-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12304\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flowers and Vegetation</h2>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was carrying a 27-pound bag of photo gear on my back for some of our excursions. I didn\'t feel like walking everywhere to take a shot here or there. In places like Grand Turk, there wasn\'t much to see outside the beach area, and Holland America\'s Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was a very controlled environment: there was a beach, an outdoor cafeteria area, and places you could go to ride horses or look at stingrays, neither of which interested me. So in some locations I found flowers, and settled in to photograph them. I shot them from different angles and under different light (as the sun was sometimes hidden by clouds), using a range of lenses. Again, I was looking for sharpness in one part, and blur and diffusion (like a mist) in others. With these images, the composition is just about everything, especially light and dark. Some call this \"environmental portraiture.\" I also shot palm trees, palm fronds, berries in a tree. 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(12550, 1, '2025-02-01 21:31:10', '2025-02-01 21:31:10', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As I have said many times, we are drowning in images, and many of them are quite good. (Lots are terrible, but they\'re not meant to be works of art; the point-and-shoot, camera-phone photo is just for catching the moment, usually with people you know.) I have really good lenses for sharpness. (The Canon RF 24-70mm is top-notch for a range of purposes; the EF 70-200mm is a great long zoom; the 50mm f1.2 and the 85mm are great portrait lenses.) So if a client needs sharp, well-exposed images, with good lighting and imaginative framing and composition, I can do all that.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What turns my crank, I have to admit, are creative images, captured at the boundaries: low light, low contrast (low-key); high contrast black and white, with lots of structure; images taken with a slower shutter speed, and the movement of either the subject or the camera, creating interesting blur; selective-focus images, in which one part of the image is relatively sharp and higher contrast, and the rest is slightly blurred; or images that have a kind of diffusion over them, as though there is mist in the air. I like playing with the post-processing, too, darkening, lightening, increasing the saturation of color selectively, and so on.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of these creative techniques work especially well with three subjects: clouds, flowers, and crowds of people. Here are some examples of selective focus (using the Lensbaby Spark lens) from my January 2025 Caribbean cruise photos. Notice the subtle elements on the horizon in the top images. In some of the images the clouds are blurred, and the sea, the catamaran, or the horizon is the main subject; in others, it is the clouds that are the subject and the sea is a mottled blur of color.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"imageCrop\":false,\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"lightbox\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default has-lightbox\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12417,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1754-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12417\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12421,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1765-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12421\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12420,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1761-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12419,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1756-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12419\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12423,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1767-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12423\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12426,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A1782-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12297,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2540-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12297\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12294,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2535-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12294\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12303,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":12304,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O3A2573-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12304\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flowers and Vegetation</h2>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was carrying a 27-pound bag of photo gear on my back for some of our excursions. I didn\'t feel like walking everywhere to take a shot here or there. In places like Grand Turk, there wasn\'t much to see outside the beach area, and Holland America\'s Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was a very controlled environment: there was a beach, an outdoor cafeteria area, and places you could go to ride horses or look at stingrays, neither of which interested me. So in some locations I found flowers, and settled in to photograph them. I shot them from different angles and under different light (as the sun was sometimes hidden by clouds), using a range of lenses. Again, I was looking for sharpness in one part, and blur and diffusion (like a mist) in others. With these images, the composition is just about everything, especially light and dark. Some call this \"environmental portraiture.\" I also shot palm trees, palm fronds, berries in a tree. 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