Editing
5 DVD full with digital images. A drawer full of negatives (I hate scanning!). I guess there are about 10,000 images I shot over the 6 years I'm staying in this place now.
Takes a lot of time to go through and find the right ones to post. Especially, when you never took the effort to edit anything besides the few pictures you printed for friends and family.
Well, I am searching for a couple of shots I took at Banzai Cliff. All I can find at the moment is a thumbnail from at least one of the series.
Sorry for the size. For the non-involved, I will tell the story about Banzai Cliff once I find the other images.
a picture
Living in paradise can oftentimes lead to take sunset shots. Although I find sunset shots boring, I couldn't pass without posting one.
I never could understand why people want to show their place by showing sunsets. They are nothing special for a place. Well, maybe in places with high population concentration they may give interesting colors due to air pollution, but here?
On the other hand, I love to watch sunsets. When I relocated from Germany to Saipan, I had to stop in Manila to wait for my next plane. There it was where I saw the first tropical sunset. The colors were amazing ... well, with all the pollution in Manila, no wonder.
Here's a sunset shot at beachroad:
I hope that picture comes out well.
For the gear heads: Shot with Nikon CP5700 (deceased), EXIF data lost ....
Waiting
Well, the mission of this blog is photography of our island, so the reader may ask now, absolutely justified, "then were are the pics?"
Uhm, there is the problem now. I am definitively fed up with scanning negatives. My digital camera is on the way to Nikon for a sensor change. So no pictures yet!
However, you may rejoice. I just ordered a new digital camera which should come in by the end of next week. Then you will be bombarded with pictures fom our place.
There comes another however: Although this place is paradise, there are exceptions, so don't expect that I will only post picture postcards here. I will post picture that tell stories of how I (and the camera) see this place. It is not always nice!
What is a blog?
Old fart I am, this blogging is definitively new to me, and I am new to it.
My understanding is that this kind of a pubic diary ... so I will make my thoughts when I have any. I hope the diary will not end up in a diarhea of thoughts.
Of course, for the convenience of the reader of this page I should make the effort to introduce the place I am writing about.
Saipan is an island in the Western Pacific, some 15oo miles south of Tokyo and the same distance east of Manila. It is the main island of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Our climate is great, the water in the lagoon clear like glass, the people mainly friendly.
As soon as I have figured out how to work a digital camera, I will post pictures of this place.
If anybody ever reads this, please feel free to comment.
Sorry for the size. For the non-involved, I will tell the story about Banzai Cliff once I find the other images.
