Back From Bermuda II

So I am almost completely caught up from the week I spent in Bermuda with my Ecology class and my internal clock has switched back to college schedule, but the memories of the beautiful water and weather are still fresh in my mind (especially with the cold weather finally approaching). I edited some of the pictures from Bermuda (the few that I was able to take) and I think they came out okay for tourist pictures. I am really glad to have them as a remembrance of the trip but I want to go back so that I can have more time to slow down and take some more artistic, thoughtful photos. There are so many back alleys and incredible overlooks to explore in Bermuda that I feel like I could spend weeks there and not see it all even though it is a fairly small island. The three pictures I have posted here are a few of the better shots I think from the trip. They are definitely touristy and the high ISO that I forgot to set back down are two things that annoy me greatly in these shots, but they are what they are.

The top picture is one that is seen a lot in Bermuda. Especially in the town of Hamilton there are tons of souvenir shops and it seems that the word Bermuda overwhelms every display. In this shot alone I think there are at least nine places that have Bermuda on them. And of course if you turn over everything you find an equally prevalent word on the back: China. This picture drew me in too because of the colors. Everywhere you look in Bermuda there are all these bright colors. All of the houses are painted in different shades of blue, pink, yellow, orange, red, and green. Anywhere else this would look tacky but in Bermuda it makes even ordinary places incredibly bright and beautiful. Such was the case with the bottom picture which was an alley in Hamilton. I was intrigued by the intense blues in the buildings and the blue barrels in the background. Then the fact that there was a random sneaker left in the middle made me take this picture. I have always been kind of interested in alleys because even though they are often dark and unwelcoming they contain so much activity and sometimes the most interesting locations. While I was in Sweden a few years ago, I found a little alley that was very dark and in the afternoon light it seemed a little scary, but within it was an entrance to a restaurant that was in an old wine cellar. It was one of the most memorable places I remember on that trip and I would love to explore for places like that in Bermuda.

The middle picture is just for me to remember how amazing the sunsets are in Bermuda. It was taken the first night we were there from where we were staying. We stayed at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences which is a campus for visiting college students and researchers. I really enjoyed my time there and hope to go back very soon to discover more. I am not able to include my underwater film pictures in this blog post but I had them developed last week and some of them came out pretty good. I got some decent photos of some very colorful fish and coral so hopefully I can upload some of those at some point as well.