• Tulip festival at Keukenhof Gardens (16-May-2013)

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    Twelve-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2013 Enrichment Voyage. Field trip to Keukenhof Gardens.

    While the MV Explorer was docked in Amsterdam I went on a field trip with my parents to the Tulip festival at Keukenhof Gardens. We were lucky since this was the last day of the festival. For a photographer that likes taking pictures of flowers this was a target rich environment. Lots of bright and vibrant colors.

    Joan and Loren at the Lily arch. Tulip festival at Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse, Netherlands. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens.

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  • Tokyo Arrival (15-May-2018)

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    Eight-years ago today. Gone to See Japan. Street Photography Workshop with Steve Simon and Soichi Hayashi. Day -1.

    After arriving at the Narita Airport and passing through customs I took the Airport Limo Bus to Shinjuku in Tokyo. It was a bright sunny day with clear blue skies. This is a street view from the bus. Lots of bright and vibrant colors. I arrived a couple of days early to equilibrate to the time difference.

    Street in Shinjuku viewed from the Airport Limo Bus Image taken with a Leica CL camera and 18 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 250, f/2.8, 1/500 sec).


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  • Transiting the Panama Canal on the MV Explorer (08-May-2011)

    Fourteen-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea 2011 Spring Enrichment Voyage.

    We passed through the Panama Canal on the MV Explorer. I was part of a group led by Michael Mariant that set up ten cameras in eight locations on the ship to take sequences of images throughout the day that would be used to create a time-lapse video Panama Canal: A Transit in Timelapse of the transit. I operated two of the cameras. A Nikon D3x with a 14-24 mm lens positioned on the port aft side and a Nikon D3s with a 16 mm fisheye lens positioned aft pointed straight back. In addition to the above link to the edited composite time-lapse video, I am including time-lapse videos from the images taken by my cameras. At each lock a pair of locomotives on each side would help pull the ship through the locks.

    Locomotive 199 Guiding the Semester at Sea M/V Explorer Through the Panama Canal. Image taken with a Leica D-Lux 5 camera (ISO 100, 14.9 mm, f/3, 1/320 sec).
    Locomotive 199 Guiding the Semester at Sea M/V Explorer Through the Panama Canal. Image taken with a Leica D-Lux 5 camera (ISO 100, 14.9 mm, f/3, 1/320 sec).

    Nikon D3s camera with a 16 mm fisheye lens positioned aft pointed straight back.


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  • Mediterranean Cruise Ship Passing Under the Sun (01-May-2013)

    Twelve-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2013 Enrichment Voyage.

    While on a previous Semester at Sea voyage with a group of photographers we had a contest to capture an image of a ship silhouette passing in front of the setting (or rising) sun. This image taken from the deck of the MV Explorer traveling from Italy to Spain wouldn’t count since the sun wasn’t low enough yet.

    Mediterranean cruise ship on the horizon passing under the setting sun. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 100, 150 mm, f/16, 1/800 sec).

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  • Dad Playing Scrabble on the MV Explorer (01-May-2011)

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    Fourteen-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea, Spring 2011 Enrichment Voyage.

    While we were traveling between Mexico and Guatemala on the MV Explorer, my father was playing a game of Scrabble on his notepad. I don’t know who he was playing. The score was 42 to 30, and the words played were BIG, BOX, REX, RAVE, LENT, and TENT.

    Dad playing Scrabble on the MV Explorer. Image taken with a Leica X1 camera (ISO 800, 24 mm, f/16, 1/30 sec).

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