I am so ready to travel again after its safe. I miss getting on a plane and going somewhere exotic, fun, warm, etc…. Until then I’ll just have to live with my past travel photos. This one is from one of our Mexico trips. I love drone photos of these resorts.
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Its Friday night and I’m tired after the work week. So this is a short post….. enjoy this majestic Mexican sunrise. I took this photo during one of our past trips south of Cancun. I enjoy getting up early to catch sunrise to capture these moments. Have a great weekend.
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I didn’t know how to describe this photo. I took it in Mexico at our resort pool just prior to sunrise. When I look at this photo, the colors Purple, Yellow, and Green jump out to me. Even more so, than the objects in the image….. Probably just me.
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As I’ve said before, I often get up very early on vacation to photograph the location (resort, beach, ship, hotel, etc…) before the rest of the tourist wake up. That was the case with this spot as well. I wanted to capture this spot without anyone in the way.
This is from a resort north of Cancun Mexico from last February.
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What a beautiful spot!! I took this photo with my drone while traveling north of Cancun. The beach was amazing along this stretch. I think I need a vacation home in this area. Anyone want to back that project for me?
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Last post, I share some information about a new very simple and cheap photo editor called Photolemur. As part of that post, I shared a before and after portrait photo I processed with this software. Tonight I am sharing a landscape photo from Mexico that I also processed using the new software. I am sharing the original photo right out of the camera, the Photolumer processed photo and a screen shot of the software user interface.
Note about the location: I took this photo in Puerto Morelos Mexico when we stayed at the Ocean Coral Resort. It is a pre-sunrise photo with the resort pool in the foreground.
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Processed with Photolumer
Original photo out of the camera
Photolumer User Interface
I took this photo in Puerto Morelos Mexico just before the bride was going to walk down the aisle. I hope the happy couple has a wonderful life together. It seems like all the little towns in Mexico have this square in the middle for the church, general gathering spot, festivals, etc…… Puerto Morelos is no different.
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I am going to be busy over the next week, so if I miss posting over that time, I would like to apologize in advance. I appreciate everyone visiting and revisiting my blog. I hope you find what I do interesting and it helps make your day better in some small way.
Tonight’s picture is a sunrise from the Dreams Puerto Morelas Resort in Mexico. MJ and I got up early every day to check the weather. If it looked nice outside, we’d go explore the resort before everyone else got out of bed. It was peaceful and enjoyable to have areas entirely to us.
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This is the inside of the Mexican restaurant at the Secrets Silver Sands Resort in Puerto Morelos Mexico.
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MJ and I just got back from a trip to Michigan, Puerto Morelos Mexico, back to Michigan and now home in Pennsylvania. We had a great time visiting my family and her parents in Michigan and spending time with her family in Mexico. It was a very nice trip all around and we didn’t have any travel issues, which was a small miracle with the weather problems during our travel periods.
We met some new friends, Don and Lori, while we were in Mexico. They are from Holland Michigan and we talked with them just about every day. It was nice getting to know them and share some scuba diving stories.
I would also like to express my thanks to Phocea Mexico ( http://www.phoceamexico.com/)
This is a nice scuba shop very close to the beach in Playa del Carmen Mexico. They were extremely professional, nice and provided a wonderful experience. Thank you to Martine who communicated with me in advance via email and over the phone while I was in Mexico. She was wonderful. Dani was very nice and provided a warm welcome when I arrived. The Dive Master Mark (see a picture of him below) was extremely polite, knowledgeable and was an instant friend. Thanks to all of them and their fellow co-workers. I’ve used literally dozens of dive shops in tons of countries and they are the best I’ve dealt with while traveling. Top Notch all around. Thanks
Today’s photo: I took this picture while diving with Phocea Mexico about a quarter mile out from the main swimming beach in Playa del Carmen Mexico. This was the 3rd dive of the day. We did two reef dives earlier and saw Bull Sharks in the distance during those dives. The 3rd dive was to specifically find and dive with these sharks. In my past shark dives with Great Whites, Tiger Sharks, Lemon Sharks, Reef Sharks, etc.. the crew would use chum to get the sharks to come in close to us. Not here!!! We literally took the boat out from the beach, went over the side of the boat, dropped quickly to the sandy bottom at about 60 feet deep and waited. Within about two minutes the sharks found us and came in close for a peek at the visitors in their territory. After about 10 minutes they got bored of us and moved off….I thought. Later when we starting to swim back up to the boat, one of them followed us right to the surface. Nothing like looking down and finding a 10-foot bull shark 5 feet below your feet….. I loved every minute.
I took this photo with my Nikon D90 in an Ikelite underwater housing and two Ikelite strobes. I shot it in Manual mode (f8, ISO100, 120th/second), RAW format, and the shark was about 10 foot away. Later I used Photomatix Pro to tone map the image and converted it into a black and white (B/W) image in Photoshop CS6. Converting it into B/W helped make the shark pop out of the image. The original picture was very blue since there isn’t much light to distinguish colors at below 30 feet. The color image was a little flat since everything looks blue. I hope you like it.
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Dive Master Mark
Tonight MJ and I went to see the new movie “42”, which is about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier into MLB baseball. There are some slow parts in the movie, but it was very well made, interesting, and kept my attention. There are very few movies where the crowd claps at the end, but that’s what happened tonight.
This is a sunrise I captured with a 5 exposure set last August while MJ and I were on vacation in the Playa del Carmen area of Mexico. We stayed at a great hotel. I love this picture because it just seems to be such a peaceful image.
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