Tag: Photo Friday

  • Photo Friday – Work in Process

    I came upon this sign last month while walking along the narrow beaches of Ambergris Caye. Looking at the image now, it sparks some reflective musings about the transition of this blog from wedding and portrait work back to my personal life. It has been well over a year since my last client related post, but I still wonder about the life and purpose of this blog. I really enjoy writing posts about my travels. Those posts have become a trip journal perfect for reminiscing about favorite photos and moments, and plus I’m happy to share any information that might be helpful to fellow travelers. But I’m not a full-time traveler and I don’t quite have enough content to consider this a full-fledged travel blog. (At least not yet?) On that note, I was surprised to receive an email the other day addressed to “Travel Industry Professionals,” and thus I’m guessing my search engine statistics have morphed a bit from wedding and portrait photography over to more travel related material. Though I also still get lots of hits on Frenchies, peace lilies, and how to make a drum shade. It’s all kinds of random up in here!

    So for anyone who is a long-time reader or if you’re stopping by for the first time just now, I hope you’ll bear with me while I continue to reshape my blogging voice. My plan is to keep posting mostly stories about my travels (on deck: Vieques, Ireland, and Scotland!) along with tons of photos, Tourist at Home posts, the occasional house project, and perhaps a handful of miscellaneous topics if that’s okay with you.

    Work in process indeed.

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  • Photo Friday – Jack

    Today’s post is short and sweet, and I’ll start by pointing out that it’s not even a photo that I took. Chris captured this portrait of sweet Jack, the spider monkey we met in Belize on a tour of Lamanai. He lives along the New River, and appreciates a banana hand-out every now and then. (Jack, not Chris, in case that wasn’t clear.)

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  • Photo Friday – Early Worm

    Photo Friday – Early Worm

    The understatement of the year would be to say that I’m not a morning person. I’ve attempted on various occasions to adjust my daily routine to incorporate earlier hours, but I have never been one to spring out of bed in the morning all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. During our time in Belize I never quite adjusted to the two-hour time difference, so I woke up every morning earlier than I do on a typical weekday at home. It worked out well because that jet lag made it fairly easy to get up at 4:45am Monday morning to visit Lamanai.

    Our journey started at 5:15am when we took the boat from the villa to San Pedro in order to catch a water taxi to Belize City, and then a van to Orange Walk. In that time, I was able to grab the sunrise photo below. It’s something I’m rarely awake to see, especially on vacation. The early worm gets the photo in this case!

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  • Photo Friday – Long Walks on the Beach

    Well, it wasn’t a long walk at all, but this is the path up the beach from our villa on Ambergris Caye. We ended our walk right there at the bar (more than once) at the X’Tan Ha resort where I had an amazing banana colada. Yu-um. (Side note: if you look out past the turtle grass section of the water, can you even believe that turquoise color?! Sigh.)

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