Archive for the ‘Children’ Category
Keeping Baby Dry in Boston

Dave keep Charlotte dry in Boston
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/3.8
- Camera: NIKON D2X
- Taken: 8 July, 2005
- Focal length: 18 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/60 s
In: Children, City Streets, Water · Tagged with: baby, Boston, carrier, Shaws, umbrella
Woman Firing a Cannon in Austin, Texas

Statue of Angelina Eberly on Congress Street in Austin, Texas, with random toddler looking at me
For more information on this statue, click here.
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/2.8
- Camera: Canon PowerShot S500
- Taken: 22 April, 2005
- Focal length: 7.40625 mm
- Shutter speed: 1/160 s
In: Children, City Streets, Historic, Sculpture · Tagged with: Angelina Eberly, Austin, cannon, Congress Street, statue, stroller, Texas, toddler, woman
Asleep after a long day in Orlando

Asleep after a long day at Orlando's theme parks
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/2.8
- Camera: Canon PowerShot S500
- Taken: 9 February, 2005
- Focal length: 7.40625 mm
- Shutter speed: 1/8 s
In: Children, Long Exposure · Tagged with: bed, Gingerbread Man, Micky Mouse, Orlando, sleep
A Figure Floating Above Water

Krystyana floats above the ocean off the coast of St. Maarten
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/7.1
- Camera: Canon PowerShot S500
- Taken: 28 March, 2005
- Focal length: 7.40625 mm
- Shutter speed: 1/1250 s
In: Backlit, Children, Silhouette, Sky, Water · Tagged with: diving, jumping, ocean, St. Maarten
Patriotism in Youth – Children on Parade

Bas with Bonnie during the Parade of Nations during Bonaire's 2004 Regatta
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/2.8
- Camera: Canon PowerShot S500
- Taken: 3 October, 2004
- Focal length: 7.40625 mm
- Shutter speed: 1/60 s
In: Children, Flash / Strobe, Night · Tagged with: flags, parade, USA
In Monet’s Garden – Smelling the Roses

Stop and smell the roses in Monet's Garden
When in Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France, you sometimes have to stop and smell the roses, like my daughter is doing here.
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/10
- Camera: NIKON D300
- Taken: 16 May, 2008
- Focal length: 95 mm
- ISO: 400
- Shutter speed: 1/400 s
In: Children, Flora · Tagged with: Claude Monet, flowers, France, garden, Giverny, rose, smelling, sniffing
Interacting With Nature – Attack of the Iguanas

Attack of the Fijian Iguanas
We visited an “eco park” in Fiji. Just past the entrance was a place where handlers drape reptiles on people (if the people are willing). My son was willing, and end up with three young iguanas decorating him.
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/3.5
- Camera: DSC-T10
- Taken: 28 November, 2007
- Focal length: 6.33 mm
- ISO: 160
- Shutter speed: 1/100 s
In: Children, Fauna · Tagged with: eco park, Fiji, iguana
Persons of Tradition – Papa Pasku on Bonaire

Papa Pasku and his Zwaarte Piets pay Bonaire an annual visit
Every year at the end of November, Papa Pasku a.k.a. Sanikolas a.k.a. Sinterklaas a.k.a. St. Nicholas visits Bonaire with his posse of Zwaarte Piets (Black Petes) who will put bad kids in bags and take them to Spain to work in the mines. Or at least that’s one story.
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/4
- Camera: DSC-F828
- Taken: 27 November, 2004
- Focal length: 18.9 mm
- ISO: 64
- Shutter speed: 1/250 s
In: Children, City Streets, People · Tagged with: Black Pete, bonaire, Christmas, Papa Pasku, Sanikolas, Sinterklaas, St. Nicholas, Zwaarte Piet
Audience Focus – When the Circus Comes

When the circus comes to Bonaire, attention is rapt
When you live on an island of only 12,000 people (at the time), you usually have to go elsewhere for entertainment. So when a circus visited Bonaire, it was quite the event, especially for the kids.
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/4.9
- Camera: Canon PowerShot S500
- Taken: 11 September, 2004
- Focal length: 22.21875 mm
- Shutter speed: 1/20 s
In: Children, Lighting, Night · Tagged with: audience, bonaire, circus, ring
The Grass is Greener – When You’re Laying Down

Sometimes you just have to take a break
My kids, enjoying green grass (something we do not have here on Bonaire) outside of the El Morro fortress, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Photo Data:
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Camera: DSC-F828
- Taken: 5 April, 2004
- Focal length: 11.4 mm
- ISO: 64
- Shutter speed: 1/250 s
In: Children, Flora, Texture · Tagged with: El Morro, grass, kids, Puerto Rico, San Juan
