12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 16

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Awesome, Becka! I am impressed!

Wish I had been there to eat some of it.

 

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And with this pirate I would like to present Allie's birthday cake. I baked the cakes last night over a couple of hours and spent a couple of hours tonight decorating. It was a very interesting experience. Here is the final product.

By the way........Nice pirate Becka!

 

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I know this post is way late, but I am always way behind. Sheesh.


Hi everyone !

Dennis it is always great to read your posts. Your passion for photography comes through and I can just see your eyes twinkling like when you have your camera out with the Geeks.

 

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Granny and William having a good time. From the Dec 8, 2007 cruise

You had William this past cruise???? He was our server on the Dec 2006 cruise. It's good to see him still so happy there. He was wonderful with the kids.

 

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I am only planning to do it on the side, and for fun. I just like to create portraits that make people smile.

I like Ansel Adams too, but in general, I am not much into landscape photography. I don't feel like I have an eye for that kind of stuff.

Joy, I LOVE the pictures of the kids in your sig now. They are growing up so fast!

 

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Becka that cake looks great!

 

[DrHug]

Fantastic pictures Dennis! You really have a great eye to get some of those shots. I only wish I could do 5% as well.

Joy - We are on the cruise with you in December and I love nice pictures...

Becka, I love your photos. And your subjects are perfect. Your pictures always make me smile .

 

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Becka that cake looks great!

Hi Lisa !

That cake looked really good to this fat boy! Yummy! It was too pretty to eat though. What a dilemma. I never let that stop me before.

 

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Dennis it is always great to read your posts. Your passion for photography comes through and I can just see your eyes twinkling like when you have your camera out with the Geeks.

Awww ! Thank you. You are the sweetest! Hopefully my focusing problems will be fixed now that I have the new camera, although the pictures by the tree at AKL didn't turn out so well. They were blurry from camera shake. I still appreciate the guy that took them though, so I could be in the picture with the group.

Did anyone get a good shot they could share?

 

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Dennis it is always great to read your posts. Your passion for photography comes through and I can just see your eyes twinkling like when you have your camera out with the Geeks.

Agreed! I really think you should re-think that photography thing. What kid wouldn't smile for DrHug?

 

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Joy, I LOVE the pictures of the kids in your sig now. They are growing up so fast!

Thank you! Those are the first "deliberate" portraits I've taken of the kids -- ones where I was really trying to balance the whole exposure/lighting thing. I think I took about 80 shots to get those ones just right.

 

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Have a Magical night, and Disney Dreams.


Dennis

Goodnight all !

 

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Thank you! Those are the first "deliberate" portraits I've taken of the kids -- ones where I was really trying to balance the whole exposure/lighting thing. I think I took about 80 shots to get those ones just right.

Those are wonderful. I like that they are Existing Light. The frame around them is really cool too. That's one thing I really like about Digital, the savings on film. It does take a lot of shots sometimes, to get it just right. The Digital SLRs autobracket too. That's a nice feature. I took 1287 shots on the Dec cruise. Whoa! Try that with film. I got about 400 good ones....

Good Night

 

[bubbasmom99]

Fantastic pictures Dennis! You really have a great eye to get some of those shots. I only wish I could do 5% as well.

Joy - We are on the cruise with you in December and I love nice pictures...

Hahaha.... Tana already has requested my services as well I might just have to schedule a few Castaway Cay portfolio sessions... but we'll have to do it first thing in the morning so the beach is fairly uncrowded.... another Geek run, perhaps?

Hey, have y'all heard about "trash the dress" sessions? They're where women wear their wedding dresses again and go into a creek or stream and the poses are really intense... it's very striking. We could do a trash the formal night outfit in the ocean session Google trash the dress and you'll see examples all over the place.

In fact, I think there is a disneymooner on our 12/8 cruise... I wonder if I can talk her and her fiance into doing a TTD session (probably NOT in her wedding dress though).....

 

[DrHug]

And with this pirate I would like to present Allie's birthday cake. I baked the cakes last night over a couple of hours and spent a couple of hours tonight decorating. It was a very interesting experience. Here is the final product.

AND, before I forget! (duh)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLIE !

 

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Well guys, what better way to spend a cold and rainy night but cruising. Mike just put the DVD from our 3rd cruise in and we have just boarded the ship and the kids are dancing out on the pool getting ready for the show. It is incredible to see how much K and her cruise buddy Sophia have grown in the past two years. The kids up there are little girls. Now they are more like young ladies. I love watching them have so much fun. This was the first time that K was not attached to me at the sail away party and really had a blast. This is making me want to go on the cruise again. UPSIDEDOWN BOUNCING OFF THE CEILING.....

 

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Hey, have y'all heard about "trash the dress" sessions? They're where women wear their wedding dresses again and go into a creek or stream and the poses are really intense... it's very striking. We could do a trash the formal night outfit in the ocean session Google trash the dress and you'll see examples all over the place.

In fact, I think there is a disneymooner on our 12/8 cruise... I wonder if I can talk her and her fiance into doing a TTD session (probably NOT in her wedding dress though).....

Joy, I looked at the first site on there and that guy's work is...well...interesting. The ones of the girls in the water look morbid. Some of them aren't too bad though. I laughed at the "shotgun wedding" one.

Why don't you book the Eastern PC cruise.

 

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I just noticed the lastest installment in Bobby's adventure.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1330270
If there are any more pictures out there from the past year you guys should add them.

 

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Joy, I looked at the first site on there and that guy's work is...well...interesting. The ones of the girls in the water look morbid. Some of them aren't too bad though. I laughed at the "shotgun wedding" one.

Why don't you book the Eastern PC cruise.

I wish! 8/17 is our anniversary too I was going to see if we could get away for the weekend to Las Vegas or something... but I really want to save my money for the cruise -- I want jewelry and Scott wants a Tag Heuer watch... gotta love shopping in the Caribbean!

 

[Jhalkias]

I just noticed the lastest installment in Bobby's adventure.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1330270
If there are any more pictures out there from the past year you guys should add them.

Bobby . . . or a facsimile thereof, is on the move again. He was last seen in Indianapolis, and is soon to be on his way to Lansing Michigan. That boy is always on the move!