Royal Clipper - want to see my picture?

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will know that one of my interests is photography and when I am away I tend to take loads of pictures, sunsets, landscapes and even ships.

I have to be honest and say the picture above is one of my favourites of the pictures I have taken, (Just blowing my own trumpet!) and clearly isn't Royal Clipper.

Over the last few months I have found various websites that include photos of cruise ships, and the best for me is www.shipparade.com.

So having returned from the Queen Victoria, I have spent a little time sorting my pictures and deciding which ones I could upload onto their website. So, after a bit of research I decided on a picture of Star Clipper's Royal Clipper, so follow this link to see my picture.

Calling all Photographers

Over the years I have taken thousands of photographs in various places, and back in July I wrote a short blog about a specialist themed photography cruise on Paul Gauguin Cruises.

Well , having spent the last few days going through thousands of images from my holidays, and looking at ways to improve my skills I stumbled across the link again and thought I'd look to see if these cruises are being done again in 2011.

So on 20th and 27th August 2011 Paul Gauguin cruises are hosting 2 themed photography cruises with professional photographers Roger Paperno & Jesse Kalisher. An excellent way to improve your skills and at the same time go to one of those exotic places in the world in Luxury.

Click next for a breakdown of information on the workshop.

A category D Balcony stateroom with all flights on the first sailing would be £4699, then of course you have to pay the cruise line for the workshop.

I would love to do this, a place I have never been to and the chance to improve my skills.

Photography Themed Cruises in Polynesia

I have heard about and booked a number of 'themed cruises', like Garden cruises and Dance cruises for my customers, but I found these Photography Themed cruises on Paul Gauguin Cruises for this August earlier today.

Now, there are a few things that appeal to me about this cruise.

1. It is a bit of Luxury, a specialist ship with a relatively small number of passengers and a high crew to passenger ratio.
2. The location, it must be on most peoples lists as top places to visit.
3. The photography workshops; now you might have seen a few of my photos here or on my facebook page, and I have to say I enjoy taking photo's and love learning to try to get better.

However there are some negatives, getting their from the UK is a nightmare, so its a long way to go for a weeks holiday and addeed to that the prices seen to be fairly expensive!

So being able to get all 3 and on a cruise would to me be bliss; not too sure that the bank manager would approve though!