(I’m Sharing A Picture A Day With The World
                              For A Year!)

       St. Lucia Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea is a stunningly vibrant coloured flower that flourishes
in dry areas with lots of sunshine. 

Of all the bougainvilleas that I’ve ever seen those in Grenada are
the most vibrant and this one here pales in comparison…YES!

This picture brings back fond memories of hanging out at The
Coconut Beach Bar French Restaurant at Grande Anse Beach
drinking Red Stripe and being entertained by Dennoth "Scratch"
Mc Intyre!  Memories anyone?

Enjoy…And look out for my Digg link and remember to Digg It

     1000 Words A Day – Welcome To My World
      (I’m Sharing A Picture A Day With The World
                              For A Year!)

         Horsing Around In St. Lucia!

Okay I must ask for your forgiveness because I should have shown
this photo yesterday as the sequel to the "Fun & Frolic" photo from
two days ago.  Trouble is I’ve got so many beautiful photos to
share that even I will sometimes get carried away!  

So I’m hoping that you can find it in your heart to bare with me 

Now horse back riding excursions are very popular in St.Lucia,
however, due to liability issues visitors generally don’t get to have
as much fun with the horses as our friend in the water from two
days ago.

But Hey,now we can all share in the fun vicariously through him!

So Enjoy…

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I wish to thank everyone who has DM’d me on Twitter about how
much you are enjoying my PhotoBlogging.

To those of you who have visited my beautiful island please tell me
what you’d like to see.

In fact why don’t you invite your friends to check out my Photo Posts
and those who have been to St.Lucia can also tell me what they’d
love to see. 

Imagine the fun that this is gonna be…Me sharing the sites that
I love alongside those that everyone else loves to see!

Please post me some comments ’cause you know that I’d love to
hear from you…

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     1000 Words A Day – Welcome To My World
      (I’m Sharing A Picture A Day With The World
                              For A Year!)

             Sun Kissed St. Lucia Beaches

Like just about every other Caribbean Island, St. Lucia is blessed
with an abundance of Sun,Sea & Sand. However one of the things
that makes us unique is the unabashed & genuine open friendliness
of St. Lucians.  Little wonder that there are so many returning
guests, more and more of whom are setting up second homes right
here.

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OK so yesterday we met Grace who tore me to shreds, albeit in a
constructive way.  And you would have observed my appreciation
for her candor. 

You see from my early childhood I was taught to embrace the things
that instinctively you don’t want to hear because they will serve you
in good stead.  I was also taught to distinguish between those who 
are mischievous in their criticisms and those who are genuine.  And
most important of all I was taught to thank everyone for their criticism
since it is only those that care who criticize. 

All these things I learnt when I was but a boy sitting at my Gandma’s
feet.  And while today she is gone from this life she still guides me
everyday!

However getting back to Grace and her concerns about St. Lucia
Photographers, especially the so called professionals – you can
imagine my surprise when I opened up my email the day after
Graces castigation to read the following:

Grace Wrote:

Subject: URGENT

Kirk how much do you charge by the way?  I still have not heard
back from the photographer that was recommended and her fees
were really good because of a friend of mine.

Kirk Replied:

Hi Grace,

You know I really love you!…Agape Love of course (:-)

First you tear my website to shreds,then you ask: "Oh BTW how
much do you charge!"  Just gotta love ya!!  All this said very
tounge in cheek of course.

Just go to the "Prices"link at the top of my home page to see my
prices.  My prices are the same for everyone, St. Lucians &
visitors alike since the work I produce is the same fantastic quality
and service.

So what you’ll get is World Class Wedding Photography
at Island Pricing!  Best of all check out my Rock Solid Guarantee…
If you don’t like your wedding photos I’ll buy them back from you -
No questions asked…GUARANTEED!!!

Give me a telephone contact and a time that’s good and I’ll call you
for a FREE Wedding Photography Consultation.

And Many Thanks for considering my service.

Talk Soon,

Kirk

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Well what can I say?…As always I look forward to your comments

     1000 Words A Day – Welcome To My World
      (I’m Sharing A Picture A Day With The World
                              For A Year!)

Just Another St. Lucia Day of Fun & Frolic

This picture so epitomizes the simple essence of the easy going
fun loving people that we are down here in St. Lucia.  

Isn’t it funny that so many people must save up for a year or two
just to enjoy a few short days in paradise?!

Now you’re really gonna love tomorrow’s picture because in
contrasts it will show how the average visitor on an island trip
attempts to enjoy Paradise…You’re really gonna love it!

BTW If you’ve been enjoying my PhotoBlogging why not invite
your Twitter and Facebook friends to come hang with us…
Hey the beer’s on me!

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OK now let me tell you how I got ripped to shreds last night by
a British Bride who hails from St. Lucia…Viewer Discretion is
advised because the details are gory…

This all began when I asked Grace to give me some feedback
on my new St. Lucia Wedding Guru Website. 

With my site up and running for about a month I felt that my
search engine rankings should be higher, so in an effort to
boost my rankings I did some keyword research and built
some text around the most popular keywords for weddings in
St.Lucia.

Well Grace was not impressed – to say the least.  So below is a
copy of her email, together with my response.

Please post some comments to let me know what you think,
especially if you’re getting married soon.

Here’s the Email:

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Grace Wrote:

Dear Kirk
 
Since you wanted my comments, here it goes, hope it helps
and by the way I do know your face, you’ve just grown (smile)
 
Whilst looking for a photographer in St Lucia, I was most
amused by how many people call themselves professionals. 
They don’t even wait for someone else to judge their work or
get recommended too.  However, I stayed away from everyone
who called themselves professional and the best on the island
because we had bad experiences with my sister’s wedding with
those ‘professional and best’ photographers.  Hope you are
not offended.
 
I think that you can revamp your wording on your website, to
me it looks like to you are begging people to use you.  If you
as good as you claim to be then your reputation should sell
itself and I think you could do better on your choice of words
and please read some sentences again because for example:
 
So You’re gonna have a St. Lucia Wedding.  Well
congratulations because a wedding in St. Lucia can be truly
spectacular once you pick the right St. Lucia Photographer.
 
This should read St Lucian instead of St Lucia?  And there is
also another in the 1st or 2nd paragraph.
 
Do let me know if I have offended you as I did not mean to. 
I think professional should be used once in your webpage
and put together with the right choice of words.
 
Look forward to at least saying hi when i get home so
please do tell Tony to point me out - that is if you wish too.
 
Have a great day.
 
Kind regards,
 
Grace

Now here’s my response:  

Hi Grace,

Many Thanks for your comments and there is no offence
taken, especially since no offence was meant!

Funny you should raise those concerns & they really have
me thinking.  I only placed this write up on my website
yesterday and the words were chosen specifically because
these are the most searched for words & phrases when
someone is getting married in St. Lucia.

Trouble however is that I must strike a balance between
what looks good for the search engines and what inspires
confidence in a bride.

Since people react more strongly to the things that turn them
off rather than the things that they like I must now give serious
thought as to how best to proceed.

You have me thinking & that is really really good so once again,
Many Thanks!

I would really love to meet you so why don’t we stop and have
a drink when you are here…You and your hubby of course!

My cell is 518 5800 & my land line is 450.2295

I agree with you that many people on island are not competent,
which is a royal shame because you only have one chance to
get it right.  Ultimately I hope everything works out perfectly for
you.  This is my wish for every bride so much so that on every
page of my site I have a list of other photographers who are good.

Talk Soon,

Kirk 

And just because I’ve kept you for so long here’s another fun 
photo for you to feast your eyes upon!…Enjoy and shoot me
some feedback please

Amy & Matt – My British Wedding Couple

     1000 Words A Day – Welcome To My World
      (I’m Sharing A Picture A Day With The World
                              For A Year!)

This is the start of a 2 hour-2 mile trek to the Live Lava!

Funny how things can go when you get on a roll as I really should have shown this
picture first.  However it was too good to not show simply because this to me was
where the volcano began and it was amazing to see how the lava had swallowed
up the road.

              A Big Bold Word of Caution

I’ve included the sign here because while it was clearly visible it was amazing how
many people got to the eruption without any water and it reminds me of what makes
for a great wedding photographer…in fact for a great photographer period – And that
is an acute sensitivity to everything in our world as well as a keen sense of
observation and acting upon all of these things to produce amazing winners.

Might I say that a truly great photographer sees so much more than he shoots!

Enjoy and as always, Comments are welcome.