Church and Front Street

On July 29, 2010 By themichaellamcollectionIn Photography2 Comments

First order of the day was morning Mass at the Catholic Church in Simpson Bay, the church of Mary, Star of the Sea. A very nice little church, and when we walked up to it I thought that it was closed, but the door opened to us and it was cool! Air-conditioned environment at church!! It will never happen in Guyana 🙂 Mass was short (most people had to rush to work after),but the service was very nice.

Then it was back home for a non-tourist morning, stayed home, checked mail, etc. 🙂

Then after lunch, back to Philipsburg, this time we took our daughter along, shopping. After spending some time on Back Street, we ventured onto Front Street, that’s where the Casinos and Jewellery Shops are, but that’s not the kind of “scene” I was looking for, I was looking for the “older” Sint Maarten, and a walk along Front Street rewarded me with a few nuggets.

I’ll just post a few here, click on them to jump to the site with the album, 17 new images added for the fifth day here in Sint Maarten. I’m hurrying because I’m off to Anguilla!

Check the rest on the site… and another day ends in Sint Maarten…

Sunset at Ogle

On July 24, 2010July 23, 2010 By themichaellamcollectionIn Photography1 Comment

I had just decided to upload this, and then I gave it a title… Giving it a title brought forth a torrent of emotion. Yesterday I said farewell to my sister-in-law and niece, Areza and Ariel, and in a few months I will be saying the same to my brother André. They have lived at Ogle for all of Ariel’s life and as soon as I titled that image “Sunset at Ogle” I realized that their family is having their sunset at ogle all too soon.

Ariel is my first niece, Areza is my first sister-in-law, André is my first brother, it is strange how those things happen. My parental family may not be the perfect family, but we grew up together, had and have our differences, but at day’s end we are family. I count myself fortunate, in that my brothers and sisters are not just my siblings, they have grown to be my friends, André and Nicholas are the closest of these, but that’s because we grew up like the Three Musketeers, inseparable, always fighting, always in mischief.

If you click on the image and see it at the site slightly larger, you’ll see three figures walking towards the sunset, two adults and a child. Serendipity. This photograph is not of them, but I dedicate it to them, as the sun sets on Ogle.

The Deck – Week 25

On June 25, 2010August 28, 2010 By themichaellamcollectionIn 2010 Deck, Photography1 Comment

This past week I actually took 157 images, I only took these on three days during the time span. I know this stuff only because I had to pick a favourite of the week for a challenge on DP Review, so of those images, one jumped out for me, it may not have been the best image or the most spectacular, certainly not the most colourful, but it had some meaning, and it tells a story.

Now this is the thing about photography, I am just there to record the image, the image usually tells its own story, and like many other types of art, the story can be different for each viewer. A scene will evoke different memories, different reactions, different emotions in people; none are right nor wrong, simply different.

This is my photo for the Deck, the twenty-fifth week of the year 2010, you may like it, you may not, but you will have some reaction to it, let’s just hope it’s a good reaction.