I’m going through a bit of a photo slump at the moment where I havent had the opportunity to take out my camera and go take some photos in about a month. Partly it’s due to me starting a new job and partly it’s just having stuff on every weekend for the last while. Hopefully things will get back to normal soon. In the mean time here’s another photo from my archives that I’ve played with one evening lately. A white picket fence again from St Pierre. This one seemed to work better in black and white.

I’ve been quiet here the last couple of weeks and I really shouldnt have been seeing how I had a photo ready to go and plenty of time to post them. I guess I just got distracted with other stuff and forgot to post.

The good news is it appears I’ve got a new job starting soon so that will fill my days with real work but also hopefully allow me to upgrade some of my camera gear soon or maybe pick up an antique camera or two I’ve had my eye on in a local shop.

In the meantime here is a photo I took a couple of weeks ago in the Basilica in St John’s. It’s a beautiful building and stands out from the rest of the city in that it’s old stone work. I’m not sure if it’s the oldest building in St John’s but it has to be up there as one of the oldest. Most of the rest of downtown is wooden structures and very distinctively different from back home but the Basilica could easily be in any town or city back in Ireland which I kinda like in a way. I love the rest of the city but it’s nice to have someplace “familiar” to look at.

We are off on another road trip at the weekend, off to France! Well St Pierre and Miquelon which is a small island off the coast of Newfoundland but which is still part of France. The last of their outposts after the fall of the colony of New France to the British.

Here is another picture from the day down in the harbour watching the cruise ship. I should post something different but I like this one and it’s been a busy week here so I havent had a chance to work on other photos. We’re in a different house at the moment house sitting and then a few days after we moved in a tropical storm hit the island so there was some preparation to be done and clean up afterwards. Plus I’ve been trying to spend a few hours every day trying to learn some iOS development.

The cruise ship the Caribbean Princess leaves St John’s harbour today through The Narrows beside Signal Hill. The ship looked huge up close and while she was trying to manevour in the harbour to leave. The noise from all the other ships horns blaring farewell was deafening but a great send off for the ship. It made me jealous of all the passengers sailing out on a ship like that, their view must have been amazing.

I put it into panoramic because I though the photo worked better without the too much sky and water but with as much of The Narrows as possible. It makes it a little small in the blog post but if you click on the picture you’ll see it full size.

A few weeks ago on a beautiful sunny day I walked around downtown St John’s taking photographs of the iconic row houses. Of the hundreds of shots I “narrowed” it down to 30 favourites, but even then lets be honest no one wants to sit through 30 images of houses in a slideshow. Therefore I decided to play around a little and using the print module in Lightroom came up with an image that shows just a sample of the photos from that day.  I might throw up another couple of images like this one or I might upload all the images into a slideshow anyway, but for now here are the St John’s Row Houses.