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Moule a Chique Light House ~ Vieux Fort, St. Lucia

Hung out with a friend, over the last few days, who I studied with at UWI (University of the West Indies), Mona, Jamaica.  I drove her down to the airport on the far side of St. Lucia this morning, and took her out to enjoy some local scenery before she caught her flight.

Here we are at Moule a Chique Light House, reputed to be the second highest above sea level in the world!

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                    St. Lucia Jazz 2009 Main Stage

                      Peter Cetera of the Band Chicago

                                    Simply Jammin’

                     Talk about "One Helluva Blowjob"!

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Peter Cetera and the band, Chicago, absolutely thrilled the St. Lucia Jazz crowd as part of St. Lucia’s Jazz 2009 Finale.  

Can you feel the vibes?!

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                          Cruise Ship in St. Lucia

Here’s viewing a cruise ship in Port Castries, St. Lucia, from a most unusual angle

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                          Girls Just Wanna have Fun!

Today I’m shooting another wedding at Windjammer Landing, the resort where it all began for me back in 1991…Gosh, it’s been that long?!

So I thought I’d feature another stunning shot from my last Windjammer wedding a few weeks ago.

As you can see, these girls were just having a blast!
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            Classic St. Lucia Sunset Wedding

For as beautiful as this classic St. Lucia Sunset Wedding photo is most photographers in St. Lucia are incapable of making such a picture and they get it completely wrong.  And the tragedy is that a bride may never know since she is unlikely to miss the picture she never got!

This is actually a complex lighting situation with the backlight being quite intense, thus making the camera tend towards creating a silhouette of the bride and groom,or totally over exposing the background and leaving the sky completely white…Yuck!

To produce these shots I first take a reading off the brightest section of the sky.  I then underexpose my camera by maybe a stop of light and over expose my flash by 1/3 or 2/3 of a stop.

However the magic of such a shot comes from my ability to show the happy couple exactly what I’m capturing.  This one simple act just draws the bride and groom in like a lucky charm every time and is responsible for the totally spontaneous expressions that you see me capture so effortlessly.

Oh, and I must also mention that when creating such complex lighting masterpieces I read the histogram on the back of my camera like a skilled musician reads a musical score.

Yeah, truth is it looks like gibberish to the world, but sweet music to the skilled practitioner.

By the way "Do you use your camera’s histogram, cause I hope you know that it is a photographer’s best friend!

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       Another Perfect Day’s End In St. Lucia

For this shot I was standing at almost the same spot as for yesterday’s photo, however this was about 6 months later and at an angle of about 90 degrees to the left.

Note the star burst effect created created because I used a really small aperture and allowed the sun to be partially obscured by the distant hillside.

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                   St. Lucia Sunset

For the next couple of days I will be featuring St.Lucia Sunset photos.  In putting this series together it dawned on me that because I live on an island where the ocean is almost always visible, sunset pictures invariably feature the ocean.

This is another shot that was made by Shayne.  The pirate ship is called The Brig Unicorn and is the actual ship that was used in Alex Haley’s classic movie "Roots".

Now a Party Pirate Ship, The Brig belongs to a friend of mine & I have arranged a generous 20% discount with the owner for anyone who marries in St. Lucia and uses my Wedding Photography.

However it would be remiss of me to not make the same offer available to all of my friends over on twitter.

So anyone coming to St. Lucia who follows me on twitter will automatically be entitled to this same Whopping 20% Off…Just DM me & I’ll set it up…

And this is just one of many special offers that I am arranging with service providers in St. Lucia who I know!!!

Aint Twitter just a fun place to be?…

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     Teeing Off in St. Lucia – Top Prize…A BMW Car!

Every year for about 6 years now BMW St. Lucia hosts an annual golf tournament with the top prize being a BMW car for a hole-in-one at a pre-selected hole on the course.

As the official photographer for St. Lucia’s BMW dealer I have covered every golf tournament and always return with beautiful shots, in part because the course is so scenic. 

In this shot my lead photographer and lead creative, Shayne Ross, worked a little fun digital magic.

Shayne is multi-talented in his creativity and is the singer who can be heard crooning in the ballad on my homepage , although many have thought that it was a John Legend track!

Shayne has recently secured himself a 45 minute set on the Friday night main stage at this year’s St. Lucia Jazz Festival in early May…I told you he was multi-talented!…Oh and that’s Shayne performing this year’s St.Lucia Jazz Jingle. 

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