Trip of a Lifetime

This blog is about our trip to Alaska, the Trip of a Lifetime. We have long spoken about such a trip but the timing or the finances were never right. When Tom's father passed away and left a sum of money we were left with the decision of what to use it for that would honor his memory. Certainly not a piece of furniture or home repair. Those things pass out of service and are left curb-side. We wanted a memory that would be with us forever.







And so idea of a trip to Alaska was formed! On a visit to the AAA office in Appleton, I inquired about such trips, explaining that we just were not a "dinner and dancing with the Captain" sort of couple. Existing on a ship that could pass for a small city along with several thousand other passengers, and dressing formally for dinner just did not hold appeal. The brochures from a company named Cruise West caught our eye. As Goldilocks said, this one was "just right!"



My intention was to maintain this blog as we continued on our travels. I failed to take into account the fact that most of the areas we were in had no internet connections available (also no TV or phone!) ... so the remainder of the blog will be an "after the fact" accounting. I hope you enjoy it!

PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE ADDED AS SOON AS I GET THEM LOADED AND EDITED...............









Thursday, September 16, 2010

Roy

We had lunch with Roy, a retired photography teacher and portrait photographer.  He had made the most beautiful slide show of the photos he had taken on this cruise, set to music. His photographs were so lovely that I asked him jokingly if he was on the same trip we were!

I asked what equipment he uses and carries, since obviously he knows what he is doing!  I need to get a stabilizing vest harness, a monopod and a shooting rest.  Roy uses a MacBook Pro with a 13 inch screen for working on his photos and has an Epson portable hard drive for storage.  He carries a macro lens , 11o mm, dedicated; an 18-120 zoom and a 120-400 zoom.  He uses Lightbox and Iphoto, part of the Ilife series.  He told me about something called ice, where he can drag the focus of the histogram to the center and pop the color.  He also said that on a regular TV screen you only see 80% of the colors and he uses an NEC EIZO Hp monitor with 16 mil colors.  NIK software and Sharpener Pro is also good, and he reminded me to work on duplicate images.

Roy was one of many extremely talented photographers on this trip who were willing to teach and share with others.
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