Caribbean Trip

I landed in Aruba for a week, and decided to do something different. I haven’t been shooting as much personal work since becoming so busy lately. So I decided to capture and post a few pictures each day of whatever catches my eye at the moment. I’ll concentrate on personal work, and not commercial images. I’ll limit my equipment to a Canon 1Ds MarkII, 24-70mm, 70-200mm, 20mm, and for low light a 50mm 1.4, and a polarizer. In my free time I’m going to roam the island with camera in hand and see what I find. I may also shoot some with a Canon G7 P&S.

Garufa club entrance in Aruba. Grab a Argentian steak across the street at El
Gaucho restaurant, then finish it off with a Cuban cigar and a nice aged port
wine across the street at Garufa.

One advantage to shooting here is all the beautiful color and sights on the island. Like Miami, Mexico, So America, or just about anyplace in the Caribbean, the colors always stand out and say shoot me! The use of bright bold colors mixed with the earth tones and turquoise blue sea just sing. Throw in some palm trees, warm weather, white sand beaches, constant breeze, and its no surprise why I enjoy my time whenever I hit any of the islands.

This is the view from the condo terrace. Aquamarine blue water, blue skies (gray
today), palm trees, white sand, and a steady trade wind. And the occasional
cruise ship or yacht sailing by.

Sitting on the terrace of the condo, I can see aquamarine ocean, white sand, green lush palm trees, and the occasional luxury liner or recreation boats passing by, or off in the distance oil tankers or container ships heading back and forth from Columbia, Venezuela or beyond. Aruba sits about 15nm off the coast of Venezuela.

A few more images from my trip.

Kite surfing along Palm Beach on the western coast of the island.

Iggy. He lives on the third rock from the left docks at the Marina. He actually seemed
to respond appropriately when I asked him to look a little to the left, drop
the right shoulder, and suck in the tummy

Playing around with the Lens Babies.

This is one of a few shipwrecks along the coast. This one you can almost
walk to in the surf. It is located along the shoreline of Palm Beach, Aruba.

~ by sfaust on April 1, 2008.