“Mommie & Me” – My Favorite Nine

“Mommie & Me” – My Favorite Nine

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

One of my favorite nine photos posted in 2023 ...

 

Before I post my “top nine for 2023” photo this year, I wanted to post my favorite nine posts from 2023 and see the difference. I just couldn’t narrow it down to six this year. One bear pic was a video, and two photos were featured therefore shown twice. I hope you enjoy the photos!

 

Here is the last one……

 

Want to take a Caribbean vacay and not pay a dime? I’ll take you on one for free by letting you see through my lens during my vacay.

 

Stay put. We went on a 14-day trip to the eastern Caribbbean, andI took 11,403 photos—it’s gonna be a long trip!

 

We loved our stay in St. Kitts. We took a whale and dolphin excursion, and it did not disappoint. I prayed and asked the Lord to bring them to us.

 

One crew member said they had an 80 to 85% success rate of finding them. The Lord blessed us immensely on our trip. It was 100 million percent.

 

There were about six of us younger folk, and we rode on the bow of the boat. It's funny how a couple next to us has a cabin in East Tennessee, and they love the Lord. He sent videos and pictures to his grandkids and his 4 1/2-year-old granddaughter. She said, “Where do the baby dolphins put their toys?” He said, “In a coral toy box.”

 

The front of the boat was rocky, but it was the best place to see the dolphins because you could look to the right and left within a small radius.

 

We saw pilot whales and several pods of bottlenose dolphins. Two Pilot whales ride beside our boat for a while, and one pod of dolphins swim right towards us.

Paul, once again, was my spotter. It’s extremely hard to photograph a moving target while looking through what seems like a pair of binoculars. The dolphins stay above water for a very short time, but I set my new camera on the fastest frame rate—120 frames per second. Wow! In one shot, I got a mama dolphin and her baby breaching simultaneously.

 

We figured it out by using the hands of a clock to let me know which direction they were swimming.

 

I didn’t like photographing in the sun—it cast white on the waves. I wish I had my polarizer, which would’ve taken that out. It is what it is. I enjoyed getting a few shots of the landscape of St. Lucia in the background.

 

The excursion was beyond amazing because the Lord answered my prayer once again.

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St. Lucia, West Indies in the eastern Caribbean