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Magic in Key West

I have so many more photos of Key West left to share with you. It was my favourite port in the Caribbean and a close second overall. Everytime I got off there I would go mad with pictures. The place is so different to what I am used to and I would move there in a second.

You must get fed up of seeing this ship but it was my life for 6 months so tough luck. I can never get bored with it as it is such a beautiful place to be and you should go on it if you can.

Happy New Year Everyone

Ok first things first, Happy new year everyone! I hope you had an eventful new years. Mine consisted of working into the early hours but I did get a front row seat on a Thames boat for the London fireworks. I had never seen the fireworks in person so it was a great sight. Between that and taken me over 3 hours to get home (normally 45 minutes) I had a great time.

Now I guess its the time of year to think of resolutions not to keep (although I fully intend to this year… as always). I want to travel more around the country. I haven’t really travelled outside London in the UK although I have been lucky enough to visit many places abroad. My UK travel record is terrible so first on my list is Wales. It has a great coastline and many national parks that will keep me busy for way more then a week.

Here is a place that we haven’t visited in a while. Key West never had a great sky for photos. No clouds were ever in the sky which might seem perfect for some propel not not for us photographers. I never tried surfing although I think I would be terrible at it.

Night Life on the Magic

I still didn’t have a Tripod with me while going out in Key West at night. I made do with a high ISO which produced more then a little noise. I have to thank Topaz denoise in helping me out on this occasion along with replacing the sky from a bracketed exposure.

Key West had such a great night life and I was lucky enough to experience an overnighter in the Florida Keys. Lots of bars were filled with crew and only 2 people didnt make it back to the ship (Quite impressive when there are around 1500 crew).

We dont have these in England. Its strange how you can buy a newspaper on a corner of a street. Admittedly, its quite a good idea and alot quicker then popping down to the shops.

Key West, Florida

The Ghost Tower

I had so much fun at late night Key West. We got off the ship at around 11pm and had until 12:30am to get back to the ship. Some people just wanted to go to a bar but Me and another photographer from onboard just wanted to walk around taking photos so thats what we did. I was very disappointed with myself though as I didn’t have a tripod with me and wasn’t allowed to use one from the ship. This meant that all my night photos had to be taken with a high ISO which produced alot of noise. I think that I managed to keep it at bay with my editing technique but a tripod would of definately come in handy.

We done the Western Caribbean to start and the first port I went to was Key West. It ended up being my favorite port in the whole of the caribbean. It is so relaxed and chilled, and also has the best cheeseburger place ever! The key lime pie isnt bad either.

This was taken by the Southern-most point Cafe, close to the tip of Key west

One of my friends hired a car and we went for a drive around Miami. He had an idea to drive down to Key Biscayne and see what was there. We found a national park hidden right at the tip of the island. This is the lighthouse hidden away. I got some great shots and also some very burnt feet from walking on the sand.