“Mommie & Me”
Judy Royal Glenn Photography
** I love the baby dolphin breaching the water next to his mommie:) The water moving over his fins is amazing! **
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 Caribbean, and I took 11,403 photos—it’s gonna be a long trip! Of course, I will add photos of the cute bears:)
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—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 rode beside our boat for a while, and one pod of dolphins swam right towards us.
Paul, once again, was my spotter. It’s extremely hard photographing a moving target while looking through what seems like a pair of binoculars. Did I mention the boat was pounding the waves?
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 disliked photographing the dolphins 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
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