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[fotoi]

Bora Bora
Olympus Tough TG-820 • fixed lens @5mm • 1/250 • f/11 • ISO 100

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[West Coast Birder]

Looks like paradise!

 

[fotoi]

Looks like paradise!

Yes, indeed. One could walk to the nearby island and the water was only about chest high. And the ships crew had a floating bar that drifted by occasionally to serve beverages.

 

[West Coast Birder]

Can you give some details on how you get to the spot in your photo? You can PM me if you don’t want to mess up the thread. Thanks!

 

[fotoi]

Can you give some details on how you get to the spot in your photo? You can PM me if you don’t want to mess up the thread. Thanks!

We took a cruise on Paul Gauguin Cruises in May 2012. Flew into Tahiti from LAX. The Gauguin ship (small ship, maybe 150 passengers total), picked us up in Tahiti and we sailed around the islands of Tahiti for about 8 days. Made many stops along the way. The island in the photo above is a private island and beach chartered by Paul Gauguin in Bora Bora. Unfortunately, there are several small islands around Bora Bora, so I'm not exactly sure which one it was. But it was small enough to and close enough to walk from one to the other. Looking at google earth, it may have been the islands of Motu Ha'apiti iti and Ha'apiti Rahi. That's about the best I can do. But they did say it was a private island, whatever that means. Having said that, it was quite spectacular.

 

[West Coast Birder]

Thanks! That was very helpful. No immediate plans to visit Tahiti, but I’ll file this away for future reference!

 

[fotoi]

Thanks! That was very helpful. No immediate plans to visit Tahiti, but I’ll file this away for future reference!

Tahiti was pretty, but Bora Bora was spectacular. My wife still dreams about that trip and how good it was. If I were to go again, I would be inclined to stay the entire time in Bora Bora and make small day trips to the surrounding islands. There's definitely enough to do around Bora Bora to have fun for an extended stay. Believe it or not, we watched the movie "Couples Retreat" with Vince Vaughn and other stars, and that's the seed that had eventually led us on the trip to Bora Bora.

 

[ncsa]

Jungfraujoch, Switzerland [Top of Europe 3,463m]
Canon EOS M3 EF-M11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM @ 11mm • f/5.6 • ISO100 • 1/1600 [3x images stitched in LR]
Jungfraujoch by Neil, on Flickr

 

[ncsa]

taken from Piz Gloria, Switzerland [named from Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service 2,970m]
Canon EOS M50m2 EF-M11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM @ 11mm • f/5.6 • ISO100 • 1/2000 [4x images stitched in LR]
Piz Gloria by Neil, on Flickr

 

[Lubos-PM]

Šumava

 

[ncsa]

Wellington, New Zealand
Canon EOS M3 EF24-70mm f/4L IS USM @ 70mm • f/5.6 • ISO100 • 1/400 [13x images stitched in LR]
Wellington, NZL by Neil, on Flickr

 

[SkedAddled]

A wider than 180-degree view of my second attendance at the Meadow Brook Concourse D'Elegance.
The annual show was held for more than 30 years on the historic property of Meadow Brook Hall,
when the rental costs of the grounds forced the organizers to find a different venue for the three-day event.
The change of venue forced a name change, ultimately leading to a public admission price of nearly double
some years later. It was and has been one of the most prestigious Concourse shows in the USA, often
being mentioned in the same league as Pebble Beach and Amelia Island.

 

[fotoi]

Snow geese.

 

[Cygnus]

Machu Picchu

 

[gmcphotographics]

Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

[gmcphotographics]

Lock Venachar, Trossachs, Scotland.
Being able to use a drop in polariser is a such a sweet advantage with the EF-RF dropin adapters. The polariser really makes the autumn colours pop!

 

[ncsa]

Rest Point by Neil, on Flickr

 

[SkedAddled]

That's a beauty, Neil!

 

[ncsa]

That's a beauty, Neil!

Thanks - Switzerland - the land of point and shoot in any direction will provide amazing views to be captured ....

 

[fotoi]

Very Large Array, New Mexico.