Rainy Day at the Turtle Inn, Placencia, Belize
Tag: Photography
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Travel: Rainy Day at the Turtle Inn, Belize
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Travel: Snorkeling off Laughing Bird Caye, Belize
Our first major outing was to Laughing Bird Caye, a National Park in Belize (where, coincidentally, The Nature Conservancy has a few marine projects). Belize is home to the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, and we spent the day snorkeling through the western fringes of it.Explore the Photo Set:
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Travel: Relaxation in Placencia, Belize
We spent our first full day in Belize doing what all honeymooners should, lounging around the resort … which we referred to more elegantly as “getting our bearings.” After dinner, we went out and took some pictures of the resort at night.it turns out pretty much everyone here is on their honeymoon — which would have been funnier if it we hadn’t had the “oh my god, we got married on saturday too! what a coincidence” conversation twelve times before we figured it out.
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Travel: Arrival in Placencia, Belize
honeymoon! we flew out of Washington’s National Airport at early, early in the morning, and arrived in Belize CIty by mid-morning.Once in-country, we hoped on a little puddle-jumper of a plane for the trip down to Placencia. WIthin minutes of landing, we were at the Turtle Inn, a Balinese-style report put together by Francis Ford Coppola after Placencia was ravaged by Hurricane Iris in 2001.
We spent the afternoon biking into the villiage, and hanging around the pool. Beautiful.
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Photos: Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
The Lady Sparkler gave me a new lens as a wedding present, and before we hopped the plane to Belize, I wanted to shoot it around for a few hours to make sure it, well, worked. The lens is a Canon 10-22mm f3.5/4.5 USM, which means it is an ultra-wide zoom, and from the few snaps you see here, it seems to take some pretty great pics.Explore the Photo Set:
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Travel: Chicago, Illinois
I love Chicago, and would move out here in a heart-beat if the winters weren’t so miserable. A great friend of mine (Chrissy, the groomsmaid) moved out here after college, and we came out for a long weekend as a kind of last hurrah before the wedding. We had such a fabulous time, and Chicago is an incredibly photogenic city.Explore the Photo Set:
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Travel: Champlain Valley Exposition, Vermont
We weren’t able to make it up to Vermont this year for my brother’s birthday, so we went up a couple of weeks later for the Champlain Valley Exposition outside of Burlington. Nothing is better than a county fair for photography.Explore the Photo Set:
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Photos: Berry-picking at Butler’s Orchard
In a break from the wedding planning madness, The Lady Sparkler and I went out to Germantown, Maryland with friends of ours (Michael and Anne McCauley) for an afternoon of berry-picking at Butler’s Orchard.Explore the Photo Set:
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Hike: Calvert Cliffs
One of the side-benefits of working at The Nature Conservancy is that we get every other friday off during the summer (assuming that we are able to compress the 40-hour work-week into 4 days).I usually use the day to go hiking around the region but this year, with the wedding, I haven’t gotten out as much as I otherwise would have. Today, a friend of mine from TNC and I hiked around Calvert Cliffs State Park for the afternoon, and snapped some pics.
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Wedding: Washington Photo Safari
The “boys” needed something to do while the “girls” were having a bridal shower, so a group of us grabbed our cameras and went on a Washington Photo Safari. This particular trip was around Alexandria (which, coincidentally, was where the shower was being held) and it kept us out of the way long enough for the cucumber sandwiches to be cleared.Explore the Photo Set:
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we spent the bulk of the afternoon at the pool bar, which just so happened had happy hour specials that made the drinks actually mostly affordable.