I rarely take photos of people when I’m off the football field. And almost never when we’re traveling… I’m just not into it most of the time. But on this day in Old San Juan, I couldn’t pass by this street performer without capturing a photo. He was just a cool cat with lots of character. By the way, you can see the cathedral (Catedral de San Juan Bautista) in the background.
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What is it about churches, temples, cathedrals and similar structures? I’m drawn to them for some reason and it isn’t for the religion. The obvious answer that the universe would scream back at me is “It’s the architecture stupid!!” And if its an abandoned church, well………………..
I captured this photo inside the Catedral San Juan Bautista in Old San Juan Puerto Rico.
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I don’t know about you, but I want… correction…I need routinely timed/planned vacations. When I have long breaks between vacations I go a little a little crazy… I can feel my stress increase. I’m in the middle of a long stretch right now. At least what I consider a long stretch and I can feel my stress increasing right now. My ability to tolerate things becomes harder during these long stretches….. So I’ll just dream (some may call it mediate) about my next trip by looking at this photo and attempt to remember what it felt like to sit there with my feet in the sand, wind on my face and sun rising from the sea… It’ll have to get me through until the next trip.
I took this photo near Puerto Morelos Mexico on a beautiful morning.
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Hello Friday!!! I can’t wait for you to arrive and the weekend to start. So I’m going to keep this brief tonight. Enjoy this nice photo of Cementerio Santa Maria Magdalena de Plazzi in Old San Juan.
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I’ve posted a few pictures from this cemetery in the past. This is the Capilla del Cementerio Santa Maria in old San Juan Puerto Rico. I’m not ready for this spot to be my home yet, but when the time comes….this might be a great location. It has beautiful architecture, great history, a Spanish fort and an ocean view. Wow….
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I don’t know why I selected this photo for tonight’s post. Maybe I’m just looking forward to our next trip to the Caribbean. Of course, MJ still wants more African animals. Anyway, this is of the Capilla del Cementerio Santa Maria in old San Juan Puerto Rico.
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I posted a picture from the front of this building a week ago. This is the inside of Capilla del Cementerio Santa Maria Magdalena in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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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
The beauty of waking up early for a sunrise is that normally I’m alone. Or mostly alone. The popular beach is abandoned. The resort pool is vacant. The Lido deck on a cruise ship is quiet. You get the point. It doesn’t seem to matter where we travel to, I can count on this phenomenon. Which allows me the opportunity to capture great photos without tourists in the way. And I’ve come to the realization that people around the world, all like to sleep in….
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Tonight’s post is a rare photo from me because it includes a person. I don’t normally include people in my landscape photos. But I liked this setting with the kid leaving wet footprints behind as he walks towards the village.
Anyway, this is from Puerto Morelos in Mexico. This is a great little fishing village about 20 minutes south of Cancun.
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Puerto Morelos
Here is another Mexico vacation picture. The Ocean Coral Resort (@oceancoral) had a number of these buildings with interior courtyards like this one. I loved the reflections at night in these areas. What do you think of this photo?
Ocean Coral Resort
Here is a photo from our last Mexico trip. I took this after sunset, during the blue hour. This is the Ocean Coral and Turquesa Resort near Puerto Morelos. What a great resort, great vacation and wonderful experience.
Ocean Coral & Turquesa Resort
Here is another photo from the Ocean Coral Resort in Puerto Morelos, Mexico. This is one of five pools at the resort. I took this photo right before we had dinner at the restaurant on the left side of the photo.
Ocean Coral Resort
We recently spent a little time at the Ocean Coral Resort in Puerto Morelos Mexico. This was the first trip we’ve taken with Blair in a very long time. Blair and I took photos on a number of occasions and locations. We all had a great time and it was nice to get some warm weather.
I took this photo of “The Bridge” that connects the main building of the resort with Building 16, which was where our hotel room was located. So we walked this path a bunch over the course of our stay.
Ocean Coral Resort
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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This is a 7-exposure auto-bracketed photo captured at sunrise from the Secrets Silversands Resort in Puerto Morelos Mexico. MJ and I got up every morning before sunrise to check the weather….just so I could capture some nice photos. As you can see, we succeeded.
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First, let me get this out of the way….. I know this isn’t a great photograph technically. The photography experts can point to all the problems with this photo. No need, I already know they exist.
Now, the reason I shared this photo was because of the great memories associated with this spot. This was the view from the beach side bar at the Secrets Silversands Resort in Puerto Morelos Mexico. I got up before the sun on numerous days to catch the sunrise. As you can tell, one of my favorite spots for watching the sunrise was from this bar. For the record, the bar wasn’t open at this time of the day…..so it wasn’t the drinks that made this a great sunrise spot.
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Honestly, I don’t have much to say tonight. It was a heck of a week at work and I’m spent. So I’ll stop here and just let you enjoy tonight’s photo. I took this in Puerto Morelos Mexico at sunrise.
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Here is sort of a weird and fun photo…. It almost feels cartoon like to me. I took this looking down on the interesting architecture of the Secrets Silversands Resort lobby in Puerto Morelos Mexico.
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I just can’t get enough of the photos from our last Mexico trip. It has only been 7 months since that trip, but if feels like it was 7 years ago. What a shame!!! Anyway, this is a photo of one of the probably 12 different pools at the Secrets Silversands Resort in Puerto Morelas Mexico.
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