Fast forward to 2021. I’ve had two major back surgeries, lost my clientele to Covid and made a major life change to Oregon to a small beach town with one of the famous Haystack Rocks offshore. With my change in lifestyle I will be blogging more to catch up on life in general. My approach will be helter skelter but at some point will make sense. The bottom line will be about the images and the art.
Equipment: Nikon Z6II, 14mm, 28-300 and an Apple iPhone 11
No simple way about it. My wife and I love to travel. We worked hard over the years, saved and looked for great deals to explore places we’d only dreamed of. One of the best solutions was to cruise. But the coronavirus has changed the industry. Details are still to come but they’ll need a lot of solutions before they can sail again. How are cruise lines going to convince 250 – 4,000 guests they will be safe. And what about the buffets, the big draw… Stay tuned.
Details: All images are from our cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale. I used a Nikon mirrorless Z6 camera with both a 16-35 and 28-300 lens.
Just prior to the virus outbreak and shutdown Patti and I took a 9 day trip to Kona, our trip to the final Hawaiian island on our wishlist. Just a short drive from our studio was a black sand beach. Once in the water though the clarity was one of the best from our many trips to Hawaii.
This video was my first effort with a GoPro8. Still learning how to edit and color manage it but the stabilization was very good.
#Kona #Hawaii #BigIsland #Snorkeling #turtle #GoPro8
All images are from Italy and Barcelona.
Everyone has a special place. I think mine is Ketchikan, Alaska. I change my mind quite often. Sometimes it’s Kauai, other times New Orleans but for now it’s Ketchikan. I was introduced to the area by my great friend Charley Starr. Charley moved his family and photo business there 10 years ago. It is a small seaside city, population over 13,000 and is dependent on the cruise ship industry to survive and thrive. Charley has generously hosted me on four visits and on the fifth I finally brought Patti, my wife. The geography is unlike anything here in San Diego. We were able to see waterfalls, bears, eagles and the salmon were running. I wish I was a better writer so I could describe the area and community. Wherever we went Charley was greeted and the people were pleasantly friendly to us strangers. I’ve started to remember names and now know places to go. It’s truly a small town environment with a Walmart. I can’t wait to go back. Where is your special place?
More of my work can be seen at www.zwink.com
I’m not a real descriptive writer. That’s why I’m a photographer, a visual artist. I let my images tell the story. Cubans were very friendly, interested and loved to interact. Tour guides loved to tell the stories of the Revolution and the strength of the culture. Owners of paladores wanted to not only share their tasty cuisine but the stories of their families. Street vendors along with the hustlers were happy to share their smiles. Others just wanted to enjoy their siesta.
Havana, Cuba is not New York City yet, but it’s streets are busy during the days. Predominately carefully maintained l1950s style cars, many with original motors and others that have been converted to Russian diesel motors with the telltale sounding diesel noise. We rode to a jazz club in a 1956 Chevy Impala with the owner styled and groomed to match his cherry red Chevy.
Delivery trucks, freight trucks, buses and horse drawn carriages are interspersed by the rare modern Mercedes and Toyotas. Road rage a rarity. It will come.
Need something to do but want to be productive? Revisit your old files and take a fresh look at them. Perhaps you missed an interesting image or, it just wasn’t edited right. Here are three images that I shot in 2012 back in Kansas, where I grew up. 
This one I particularly like. I missed originally that it was sitting in a pocket of light shining through the trees. Once I started working on the file I also saw the subtle pink and magenta tone sitting in the low laying clouds. 
I was stoked. I’ve shot thousands of images from Kansas over the years and many views get a repeated look. Different times of the year, different times of the day. You never know where that special light will occur, or if it’s already in your images. Revisit….
My website: www.zwink.com Techy stuff: post production in Adobe Lightroom 5.
