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Monday, March 8, 2010

Beach Facilities

Posted in Travel

No matter what island you go to in the Caribbean, you find scenes of buildings that are on their later stages in life. In this case, a beach restroom that has seen its better days before. Still heavily utilized as a changing area, it is a rare time when you do not see someone near its structure.

Posted in Travel Tags: Barbados, Beach, building

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Final Approach

Posted in Animals, Minnesota, Rural

Last week, Rob, Mitch , and I headed to Monticello to capture some shots of Trumpeter Swans that bed down there for the winter. I think it would be fair to say that we were unprepared for what this experience was going to be all about once we arrived at the park.

First, and this may seem obvious to most people but wasn’t to us/me, Trumpeter Swans are very noisy birds.

Very.

Noisy.

Second, there was such a high concentration of swans geese and ducks…. there was no separation. it was one hug quagmire of waterfowl. All in all it was an interesting experience I have to admit, but we would have to rethink going back and finding a better place to shoot from.

This member of the clan was just coming in for a splash down as I took the shot. It was one of the few I was able to capture that wasn’t obscured by a tree.

Posted in Animals, Minnesota, Rural Tags: Monticello, river, swans

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Islander

Posted in Candids, People, Travel

I have found that some of the photographs I took from Barbados seem to have a life of their own. For sure this is evident in the candids and portraits of the bajan people. There are many times I will find myself unconsciously taking pictures in my head of my surroundings. Structures, animals, people…. just as if I have my camera with me. I’ll see something interesting and compose the shot. Thats how it was with this gentleman but lucky for me…. I had my camera with me.

I am not sure of the cultural ramifications of walking around photographing people on this island. In some places, it is an honor to have your picture taken while in others it is offensive. I was very careful to be discrete while on the beach. This one was a lucky shot. I used a trick I see Rob use all the time. I held the camera down by my waist, averted my attention in a different direction and pulled the trigger.

Posted in Candids, People, Travel Tags: Bajan, Beach

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