Caymana Bay Observation Tower - Photo Blog's topic of the week

Last week I spent the week in New York city on business. I cannot remember ever seeing so many yellow taxis in my life (never mind in one place). I unfortunately did not take my camera with me as I knew that I would not have time to take photos. So this past Sunday, Brigitte and I took a drive and the camera came for the ride :-). One of the places we visited was the Caymana Bay Observation Tower. The Tower is absolutely beautiful and includes a undersea glass mosaic consisting of in excess of 3,000,000 titles. Accordingly, the photo's in this week's Photo Blog are of the Observation Tower. To see the photos and learn more about the Observation Tower, please stop by my Photo Blog.

Have a great week.
Richard

A Beach Wedding - Photo Blog's topic for the week of November 2, 2009

After four months of not using my camera for more than a few minutes at a time (due to my broken collarbone) I have recuperated to a point where I am ready to start using my camera. It was therefore fortuitous timing that I was asked to photograph a beach wedding this past weekend. So I thought, what better topic for this week's photo blog than the photos that I took of Simone and Pierre's beach wedding on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands.

Have a great week!
Richard

Pirates Week - Richard's Photo Blog's Theme for the week of October 26, 2009

Every November for as long as people here can remember, the Cayman Islands have hosted a Pirates Festival. As the 2009 festival is quickly approaching I thought it would be nice to devote this coming weeks' photos on my Photo Blog to the 2008 Cayman Islands Pirates Festival.

More information on the November 12 - 22, 2009 festival can be found at http://www.piratesweekfestival.com/.

Photo Blog`s Topic for the week of 2009.10.19

For the past two months I have been posting a photo a day on my photo blog and briefly blogging about the photo. Last week I did something different on my photo blog, I devoted the entire week of photos to one topic, specifically the 27 June 2009 Junior Equestrian Jumping Competition held here in the Cayman Islands. Similarly for this coming week, I will be "photo blogging" about one topic... the photos will be from Haydee and Eric's lovely Cayman Islands wedding in November 2008.

Enjoy and have a great week,

Richard

My First Post

Welcome to my first post. As I was writing this I was wondering if anyone will ever read this. I therefore thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoy reading my blog. If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to leave me a comment.

I think it is only fitting to tell you a little about myself. I am a Canadian (born and raised) who moved to the Cayman Islands this past summer to experience Island life and work. In regards to Island life, we just just experienced Hurricane Paloma as it passed by as a Category 3. Although Grand Cayman (where we are located) fared quite well, we lost another tree (we are batting 1000 as we lost a tree in the last Hurricane). Here are a couple pictures of the Olive tree that we lost last night:






I am originally from Canada where most root systems from the trees dig deep into the ground. Here on the Island, the root system fans out as the Island is more or less one big rock. Here is a picture of the tree after its "haircut":



Enough about trees and hurricane damage. Enquiringly minds want to know...why should you come back? What can you expect from the Blog? In future blogs I will:

• talk about my life as an expat living and working in the Cayman Islands;
  
• tell you more about me;
• discuss photography and post new pictures; and
  
• the odd rant (not that the rant will be odd, OK maybe some will think so, but I was thinking more along the lines of infrequent :-).
  

It has been a pleasure.

Richard