{"id":1049,"date":"2010-09-06T03:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T02:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2010-09-06T03:57:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T02:57:24","slug":"mykonos-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/1049","title":{"rendered":"Where I spent my birthday this year: Mykonos, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Hey Luke, what did you do on your birthday?”<\/p>\n

\nThanks for asking! I was on the Greek island of Mykonos. It was my first time visiting, so I took the tender from the cruise ship to the main town.<\/p>\n

\nThe newest cruise ship for the moment – HAL Nieuw Amsterdam.
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\nI took a look around, but the light was completely wrong for any interesting photos. I spent an hour or so online, trying to work out why nobody had sent me birthday greetings on Facebook (hint: I’d set my birthday to private), and took the tender back to the ship.<\/p>\n

\nI planned to return to the same spots again just before sunset, and take photos that I’d visualized on the earlier trip. They turned out pretty much exactly as I imagined they would. I think this means I’m getting better as a photographer.
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\nThe softness of this image was applied by the technique called “breathing onto the lens”. Did it work? I could have probably done it better in Lightroom.
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\nIn the early afternoon I spotted the waves crashing on this rock. I didn’t even bother taking a photo then. But I thought I might get a photo with the sunset behind if I came back later…
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\nIf I’d seen this boat on the horizon earlier, I might have framed it better. Either way, I think it’s pretty dramatic. The horizon is so close here because I was literally crouching in the sea.
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\nI’m guessing these people didn’t get the same kind of photos as I did.
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\nMaybe I should have spent the time pointing the camera at the people watching the sunset, rather than the sunset. A shot like this with the light from the sunset would have been much nicer.
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\nThe Nieuw Amsterdam docked in Katakolon a few days later.
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