Captured one warm evening in late May, 2019. Such was my rush to exit the car, I almost left the shift in drive because I only had a few seconds to configure the camera.
SPOTLIGHT Beach Poinciana How it was made. This photograph was a happy accident. I was recording video for my website, but the wind was so high that my face ended up getting sandblasted and the flower would not stay anchored. There was a lull in the gusts that allowed me [...]
I was able to make this photo after many failed attempts over several days. I knew the image I had in my mind but the light wasn’t cooperating. Finally on a chilly winter day in February, the sky was cloud free and I was able to complete my vision.
It was hard to get this photo without the undulations of the sea getting the tip of the lens wet. I was standing on slippery rocks trying to get a clear shot of the sunset. My mother used to say whenever the sun was red like this, it was the dust from the Sahara Desert being blown all the way across the Atlantic. There is some truth to this.
Because I only left the house with a 35mm prime lens and couldn’t zoom out, I nearly fell off the western edge of the new addition to Arawak Cay, trying to get the entire island in the frame. So many of my photographs come with stories of accidents barely avoided because of mild incompetence on my part.
This was one of the first photographs I ever took. Because I knew nothing about the technical aspects of photo editing, I regrettably deleted the raw files as they took up so much space. I didn’t understand that having the original camera files would help me later. It was beginners luck really that I was able to be at the right place at the right time. Years later, I saw the carriage driver taking another family of visitors on a tour but couldn’t approach him to ask his name because I was afraid of scaring the horse on the busy Nassau street and getting trampled.
Before the Development of The Pointe and Margaritaville, this was the old view from Junkanoo Beach of the western end of the Paradise Island. On my way back from taking photos of horse-drawn carriages on Shirley Street, I stopped to rest my legs, set up a tripod and took this shot.
A rusty (new) ladder in the foreground of the frame, overlooking the sunset in the back of Long Cay. Why do they make these ladders, which I assume are expensive, out of metal?
This island is mesmerizing during golden hour but especially in the hard light of day. It is now privately owned by a major resort. It costs $5000 for an all inclusive day there and $10,000 for an overnight stay.