Pictures in Paradise - Our Favorite Caribbean Island Travel Photos

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eye-opening images from the caribbean speak volumes

I was photographing a resort on theCaribbean coast of Panama, but fromday one, this local family was veryappealing to me. I noticed their littlehouse along the shore, from whichthey’d launch a wooden canoe to playin the water every day. This kid, alongwith his mom, two sisters and youngerbrother, spent hours diving, swimmingand laughing. On each break fromshooting, I would swim and snorkel

around them until we started to interact.As they grew to trust me, they let meshoot them playing, and I let them tryusing my camera. This image representsa special moment when the child feltso comfortable with me that I becamea part of his daily play routine.

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When we checked in at the JaInn, the sun was about to set

of my favorite times to shoot. Ifisherman in the bay about 100

out, so I waved to him. He cin and cut the motor, with hmoored on the sand in the s

water in front of me. I stepped inwater to get closer and shot this i

intentionally focusing on the bofavorite shots are like this: unpla

— r a y m o n d p a t

Devil’s Bridge, on the island of Antigua,is a natural limestone arch where, asthe story goes, slaves from neighboringestates would leap to their deathsrather than submit to sl avery. I’dseen plenty of daytime photos of thearch, so I came up with the idea ofshooting it at night, using flashlightsfor illumination. I borrowed a fewfrom my hotel, put the camera on atripod, started a long exposure and

ran around the arch, “painting” it withthe light of the flashlights. After a fewattempts, I got what I wanted, a verysurreal look at an infamous spot.

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The most incredible thing about divand photographing in the freshwa

cenotes of Mexico’s Rivera Maya is astonishing clarity of the water —

makes the clearest seawater look din comparison. Shooting underwa

presents other challenges as wOnce, for instance, when I swam aw

from the camera to add light to scene with a portable flash, my

wash nearly knocked the camera atripod over onto the hard rock. Tcavern in this photo had one of

most remarkable openings — wide aconvoluted like the mouth of a jack

lantern. I love the combination of colin this shot — blues, greens and bla

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While shooting on Aruba, we chartea boat and sailed to some sm

islands offshore. I knew I wantedshoot from above to show off the co

of the water, so the captain roped into the line that pulls up the mains

— and up I went. I placed my f eetthe mast, trying to keep them o

of the shot, and then leaned outcreate an unobstructed view of

boat and our model in the water. Twind was blowing a bit; the gen

swaying on deck translated to abo10 feet of swing at the top of the ma

— b r o w n w . c a n n o n

My first day on Barbados, my driverpicked me up early to shoot the sunrise.

I soon realized that he’d miscalculatedthe timing; it was still the middle ofthe night. So I waited in the dark onthis dramatic rocky point, with 80-footplumes of water shooting skyward. Ihad no idea how to get the shot withoutdrowning or being washed out to sea,so I would run out to the rocks, shoot afew frames and dash back before thewaves crashed into the cliffs. I workedon that shot several times, and onlyonce did I really get doused by the surf.

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