The fountain of colour

I ended a photo walk early as I had to be up early for a long long days work. The last place I ended up before swiftly jumping on a bus to Victoria station was Marble Arch. This fountain is next to the arch put there by Westminster council to attract visitors to the area. It is a fantastic place to be at night with people travelling on Boris bikes (on drunken adventures) to come and see it.

The fountain changed colour during my long exposure from blue to pink. In post production, I merged the two colours together bringing out the best of both. It creates something that the eye could only dream os seeing when you are actually there. I hope you like it as much as I do.

The Colour of Malta

Every building in Malta is built out of the same Maltese rock. This means that an orange glow is emitted from the country when you approach. Ok perhaps its not that bright but you certainly notice the sand colour of every building.

These houses overlook the harbour. You would think that they have a great view but you can’t see the large industrial estate that is the other side of the dock.

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.

Allies in Villefranche

Villefranche takes on the stereotypical view of Europe. The narrow alleys, small coffee shops and people who don’t speak a word of English. That meant it was hard to get what you wanted in restaurants. Unfortunately my GCSE french isn’t what it used to be but I made do… just.

It took me ages to get back to the ship after getting lost if the maze of streets. I made it  with 10 minutes to spare till my shift started thanks to the short boat ride.

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.

A Disney Paradise

Who ever knew that it was so hard to post a video. Due to copyright issues to the soundtrack from torn in my time-lapse, some countries are not able to view it. I had to post it on a different sight that you can see here.

Right now onto todays photo. Another from Castaway Cay, Disney’s private island in the Bahamas. This jetty is just as you get off the ship on the way to the main part of the resort. You can see the typical Bahamian sky as great as ever.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Madeira Harbor

I was working a lot in Madeira so didn’t get much of a chance to go explore most of it. I went to the centre of town and then walked back through the harbor back to the ship. 

People always say to me that you have been to some great places. Yes I have but I have not seen them. I got to spend around 3 hours at a time exploring the places we went to which is not enough time to “see” places. I want to go back to some of the places to see the true side of them. One day I will.

Over the Tiber

I want to go back to Rome to explore some more. It is a surprisingly small city taking around 45 minutes to walk from the Vatican on one side to the Colosseum on the other. This was taken during that walk as we went over one of the bridges over the Tiber river. I can’t remember what bridge it was, perhaps someone can say. Some of the most beautiful bridges that I have seen cross this river with huge stone statues lining the sides of most of them.

You Cheeky Monkey

I got to know the monkeys well in Gibralter. I spent a whole day photographing guests with them on top of the Rock. They are everywhere, taking every bag that they come across. They are looking for food and snatch it away right from your hand. We would guess what guest would fall victim and it became a fun game.

This is one of the culprits relaxing after a long day of harrasing tourists. You can see the Disney Magic in the harbor below. Believe it or not we actually walked back to the ship from here. It took us forever as it was further then we thought.

Four in a Row

Hello and welcome to another week. Today is a photo from the Caribbean. I didn’t get off the ship much in Grand Caymen. It was generally used to catch up on sleep and do the laundry. I did venture out twice though and went to a nice Italian restaurant with some friends. On my way back I did a bit of my very own Urbex. Well sort of… I stepped over a badly placed bollard onto some wasteland to find this rotting boat.

You can see four cruise ships on port that day. The one in the centre is my home, the Disney Magic but I can’t remember the others. I think one was a Royal Caribbean and another a Carnival ship.

Palm Trees in Paradise

Another photo from the Disney Island, Castaway Cay. Many of you have seen lots on images from the bahamas that I have posted that I took on my travels. This is from a place called Pelican Point looking back onto the Disney Magic ship.

It was taken while I was walking up the beach front taking photos of guests as they enjoy themselves on the island. I always carried a separate memory card so I could quickly swap for personal use. I had to be quick on changing to shooting to RAW aswell and not forget to change back which actually happened once.

NFL in London

As some of you will know the NFL (National Football League) or as we call it, American Football, came to London recently. I was on a photowalk in London wanting to take photos of Trafalgar Square and to my surprise it was sectioned off and had a special NFL event on. We talked are way in (it wasn’t hard as entry was free but they didn’t like our camera stuff) and after they discovered that we didnt have anything to hide after searching my bad throughly, were let in. I have never seen the square so busy. I was handed a cardboard chair wondering why such an item had been given to me. 

People were gathered infront of a big tv screen and I soon found out that it was the classic ‘Jerry Maguire’ playing in a typical american fashion. I didnt stay there long but I managed to grab this photo of the Chicago Bears mascot by the fountain.

For those of you that want to know the score was Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24-18 Chicago Bears

Signals on the Magic

The family pool, as you can imagine, was the most popular pool and was always full of guests. Even late at night there would be someone around enjoying some of the activities around. This was taken in the early hours of the morning just after I had finished work for the day.

The bar/restaurant on this part of the ship was called Signals, hence the name of the photo. I ate here a few times after a late finish and the food was really good. Anything was good compared to the crew food though.

The two covered pools in the foreground are jacuzzis that were always occupied mainly by teens who were socialising with new friends. Adults usually found sanctuary in the adult pool where it was alot more peaceful.