GLOBAL ODYSSEY 2010 BLOG #37: PHOTOGRAPHS THAT APPEAL

Half the people onboard this vessel seem to be stalking around with humongous cameras of the six-inch-long lens variety.While it can make you feel particularly inadequate, we prepared for our “marathon” in a different way, bringing a “stable” of cheaper models that could be replaced if they went bad (one down and two near misses …) or were stolen.  We’re glad to report that while others have been ripped off – in Chile – no one has found our cameras worth pilfering to date. Mary swears by her Kodak Easyshare Z950, which is great for zoom shots, while Sam sticks with a Fuji Film 12.2 Megapixel model with a mere three-times zoom. Both are fairly modest in cost, so we wondered how they would stack up against the behemoths when a photography competition was announced.
 
This covered Latin America, and was divided into People, Wildlife, and Landscape categories. We were limited to our “best shot” in each, to be voted on by our fellow passengers over the course of the voyage across the South Atlantic. No flesh was pressed, but we’re pleased to report that one of our six garnered a first place. “Take that, expensive cameras!” We can’t show you the competition for copyright reasons, but let us know which you think should have triumphed (and why!):

1. Mary (People) – a mocked-up panorama in Callao, Chile with an Indian effigy in front of a very real apartment fire that just happened to start as we were standing there (at Sam’s insistence).

2. Sam (People) – we think this one was hysterical.  It was the first hour of our first day at sea.  ☺


















3. Sam (Wildlife) – dung beetles in action in Ecuador

4. Mary (Wildlife) – a bird preening at Iguazu Falls

5. Mary (Landscape) – a view of Antarctica (she had so many and it was hard to find the best one in our rush to submit).












6. Sam (Landscape) – a rainbow at Iguazu Falls














Results in our next blog.